It ends 1-1 between Marseille and Atalanta: goals from Scamacca and Mbemba decide. Dublin’s qualification for the Europa League will be decided in a week in Bergamo.
SICK SCORES IMMEDIATELY
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Gasset chooses the 3-5-2 with Aubameyang, striker of this Europa League, supported by Sarr; captain Kondogbia in front of the defense, Veretout left midfielder and Pau Lopez in goal. The contingent of former “Italians” is closed by Correa, still from Inter, who starts from the bench. Gasperini opts for the starting eleven, with Djimsiti at the center of defense in place of the suspended Hien. Ahead of the best of Atalanta’s European nights: Scamacca-De Ketelaere-Koopmeiners. In the 11th minute Atalanta passes: Ederson for Koppmeiners from the left towards the center, Murillo makes a mistake with the movement, choosing to tighten instead of widening where Scamacca goes. The attacker controls and passes diagonally with his right foot to Lopez. The goal works as a button: the infernal Velodrome turns off for about ten seconds. The almost 3 thousand fans who arrived from Bergamo can be heard before the Marseille box resumes supporting Gasset’s team. In the 15th minute Marseille scares the Goddess. Cross by Luis Henrique for Sarr, the trajectory goes past Musso but Kolasinac is there to anticipate Sarr. At 17′ Kolasinac stops. Gasperini is forced to replace him, he comes out limping, Pasalic replaces him with De Roon acting as the left-hand scorer. In the 20th minute Marseille equalised. Corner taken quickly, four free men on the edge, the Goddess is not quick to shorten so Mbemba has time to think and kick. Right-footed shot, inside post and goal. In the 42nd minute the French missed a great chance. Atalanta misses the pressure when coming out of a corner, Marseille builds a deadly two-against-one restart, but Audameyang stops playing the role of the competition’s top scorer and tightens the diagonal too much in front of Musso.
OM. PRESSURE
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We start again with the same men who finished the first half. And in the initial 6′ of the second half there are a couple of attempts from far away, first Aubameyang and then Koopmeiners, nothing that could worry Musso and Pau Lopez. In the 13th minute Kondogbia joined in with a left-footed shot just over the edge. Gasperini around the hour mark removes Scamacca and inserts Lookman: CDK goes to do the false new. Lookman enters well and in the 18th minute after an overwhelming move on the left he centers and shoots outside the area with his right foot. The Velodrome explodes a few seconds later when Sarr scores the 2-1 in the 19th minute. But the action began with an offside by Luiz Henrique. Ounahi enters, places himself in front of the defense and in the 28th minute takes the intersection with a right-footed shot from the edge. The final quarter of an hour turns into real hell, the one anticipated by President Longoria in the interview with Journal from a few days ago. Marseille switches to 4-3-3 to keep the Bergamo defensive system under even more pressure. But when Atalanta has the ball the Velodrome blows the whistle, feeling that the danger is still there, very present. Gasperini removes CDK and puts on Miranchuk, makes Zappacosta catch his breath and inserts Hateboer to face the final. Miranchuk right in the 45th minute slides his left foot not far from the post giving the illusion of a goal. The result does not change, it ends 1-1, the question of qualification remains very open.
