atalanta2manchester utd2ATALANTA (3-4-1-2): Musso; De Roon, Demiral, Palomino; Zappacosta, Koopmeiners, Freuler, Maehle; Pasalic (1 ‘st Djimsiti); Ilicic (26 ‘st Muriel), Zapata. Herds Gasperini.
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ATALANTA (3-4-1-2): Musso; De Roon, Demiral, Palomino; Zappacosta, Koopmeiners, Freuler, Maehle; Pasalic (1 ‘st Djimsiti); Ilicic (26 ‘st Muriel), Zapata. Herds Gasperini.
MANCHESTER UNITED (3-5-2): De Gea; Bailly, Varane (38′ pt Greenwood), Maguire; Wan-Bissaka, Bruno Fernandes (42′ st Van de Beek), McTominay (42′ st Sancho), Pogba (23′ st Matic), Shaw; Cristiano Ronaldo, Rashford (24′ st Cavani). All.Solskjaer.
REFEREE: Vincic (Slovenia).
NETWORKS: in pt 12 ‘Ilicic, 46’ Cristiano Ronaldo; in the 11 ‘Zapata st, 46’ Cristiano Ronaldo.
NOTE: angles: 5-1. Booked: McTominay for foul play. Spectators: 14,443.
BERGAMO
The back and forth Ilicic-Cristiano Ronaldo, the 2-0 touched several times, the overtaking of Zapata upon returning from the tunnel and at the end another mockery signed by the double goalkeeper of the day: at Old Trafford it was worth the knockout, this time it is a 2 -2 screaming for revenge in front of the 14,500 (all with a flag donated by the club) of the Bergamo stadium.
Against Manchester United, Atalanta cradles the dreams of first place for a long time, except having to remain in third in group F of the Champions League (5; at 7 there is also Villarreal), forced to win the two games that remain to them. qualify. Between one extreme and another in a first half in which the Bergamo players put pressure on the reinvented English three-way defense, a breaking latest news of pure suspense started from the post at 5 ‘by McTominay, freed by the Rashford-Koopmeinters-Pogba pinball machine and with the trajectory deviated from Palomino.
After the 2-1 scored by Zapata in the 56th minute, Gasperini’s boys stay ahead for over half an hour but the second equal of the Manchester reds is lurking in the 1 ‘of extra time: a perfect right in the corner that exploits the rebound between Grenwood and Demiral.