Gian Piero Gasperini won a Claudio Ranieri The duel of veterans strategists of the series A and the Atalanta was secured for the second consecutive season, fifth of its history, its presence in the Champions League. The DEA defeated Rome in a direct duel (2-1) and consolidated its third place in series A, with 7 points ahead over Juventus and Lazio, two days from the end of the championship.
Meanwhile, for Rome, which ended an extraordinary streak of 19 days without losing, everything is not lost. He is sixth, to a point from Juve and Lazio, in the exciting struggle for the fourth Champions Plaza.
The Atalanta is overturned and progress
The Atalanta was overturned and opened the scoring soon with a good goal from Ademola Lookman. The Nigerian received in the area of Charles de Ketelaere And, after making a space, he defined halfway with a shot adjusted to the post (9 ').
The Ketelaere, lookman, supported by Ederson and Mateo Retegui, They continued to arrive in waves to the visiting area and generate occasions one after another.
The Ketelaere He had two very clear, but in the first he finished badly to Boca de Gol and in the second Mile Svilar He covered his shot with a paradon. The rejection fell to Retegui, who raised out Bocajarro.
Cristante Empata
Rome resisted as it could and took oil in which it was practically its first arrival of the party. Overcome half an hour of play, Matías Soulé put a center and Bryan Cristante combed the network against joy on the bench of Paulo Dybala, that has not yet reappeared after the operation in the thigh at the end of March.
The goal encouraged Rome, which ended the first part better than the Atalanta and even had some dangerous arrival to go to the rest. It would have been unfair.
In the second part the Atalanta returned to the load. Domino although Rome, much less passed the troubles of the first phase of the meeting. So much so that Svilar did not have to intervene.
Of the penalty that annulled the VAR to the sentence
Overcome the game time, one of the key plays arrived. Manufacturing Koné stole in the center of the field and ended up falling into the area before the entrance of Mario Pasalic. The referee whistled penalty but rectified, after consulting the VAR, since the French medium dropped.
Gasperini moved pieces giving Lazar Samardzic already Ibrahima Sulemana and between them they gestated the goal that decided the game (76 ').
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Lookman He went down the left, put the ball to the area, where Samardzic delayed that Sulemana will connect a man from the front that surpassed Marco Carneecchi. It's the first goal of the young Ghanaian midfielder, 21. He will never forget it as he sealed the classification for an entire Champions.
