Alexey Miranchuk started again for Atalanta, as in the first game against Sporting. He then showed no greed and gave an assist to Scamacca, although he could have scored himself. At the same time, the Bergamascos hit the frame four times and therefore could not win (1-1). Today they improved and were more precise.
In the first minutes, Miranchuk almost repeated the situation from the first meeting: he dispersed the attack and gave a pass to Scamacca, who fell on the goal. But now the striker was in a hurry and simply gently rolled the ball towards the goalkeeper, spoiling Lyosha’s assist. It is for these programs that Atalanta fans love Russians; They even offer to marry them. For transfers, right?
Messages to Alexey Miranchuk
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Remember that meme about the cat who wasn’t happy with the plate? If so, you might laugh at two different inscriptions: “Alexey, I’m getting married” and “I want to fuck you.” Anyway.
In the 12th minute, Miranchuk was unlucky again. He was close to the corner flag and sent the ball to the far post, from where his shot was headed by Djimsiti. The ball flew like a shovel and, according to the tradition of the first meeting, hit the crossbar. What are you going to do?
The Portuguese had more possession of the ball (61% in the 20th minute), but their dominance was sterile. The visitors gave the first blow to Musso’s goal only in the 30th minute. “Atalanta” was sharper, although for a long time they had no scoring opportunities: either Scamacca did not reach a dangerous serve, or Reis played with his body and did not He let Miranchuk enter the area. And in the 33rd minute, Győkeres played with Gonçalves, and the second jumped one by one, shooting low into the corner. Hello, debut goal in the match.
Match between Atalanta and Sporting, goal from Gonçalves
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At the same time, Pedro limped during the scoring episode and probably tore his cruciate ligaments. He immediately came out as a substitute and couldn’t hold back his tears. We hope everything goes well with the winger. An extremely disappointing injury.
The Italians continued to look for scoring opportunities, but Sporting’s defense remained firm. The only thing that can be noticed is Holm’s attempt from the center of the area, when he shot straight into Israel’s hands. There was also an offside position for Scamacca, but even from there he couldn’t get past the goalkeeper from six meters. The implementation depends more on the Portuguese than the Italians.
It seemed that way until the start of the second half, until Lookman equalized! Although in such a situation not even Fernando Torres from his time at Chelsea would have failed. Ederson sent it to the near post, where Miranchuk was. Lyosha missed the ball, but it flew towards Ademola, who hit it into the nearest corner from a couple of meters.
Match between Atalanta and Sporting, goal by Lookman
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If in the episode of Atalanta’s first goal Lyosha’s assist did not occur, then it already happened! The Russian caught Ederson’s cutting pass, ran down the right flank and shot into the center of the area between his opponent’s legs, from where Scamacca fired accurately into touch. The combination from the first match worked again!
All that was left was to score against Lyosha. And I could! In the 70th minute, Lookman sent the ball towards the goal, but Israel stepped up and kept the ball. The initiative belonged to the Bergamasco people. Sporting took advantage of their only opportunity in the first half and in the second half Musso did not threaten the goal. Except for Braganza’s distant shot, which the Argentine deflected without problems.
Atalanta did not always have possession of the ball, but constantly maintained the initiative. Miranchuk was exhausted in the 75th minute and Gasperini replaced him. According to the Sofascore portal, Lyosha became the player of the match with a high score of 8.2. She has one assist, 25 of 33 accurate passes, two scoring chances created, one accurate long pass and two tackles.
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Sporting only created a couple of chances until the end of the match, but did not take advantage of them:
Bragança threw from his half of the field to Paulinho, and the Brazilian did not throw to Musso, Edwards found Musso’s failed reflection in the center of the area and shot into touch somewhere into space.
The Bergamascos have taken a well-deserved step forward. The drawing will take place on March 15 in the afternoon, at 3:00 p.m. Moscow time. Atalanta’s possible rivals are Liverpool, Roma, Milan, Marseille, West Ham, Benfica and Bayer Leverkusen.
How was the first game? Miranchuk was good there:
Miranchuk had a great game in the Europa League playoffs. He could have scored himself, but he gave an assist! Video
