VERONA (ITALPRESS) – Atalanta is smiling again after being eliminated from the Coppa Italia, against Hellas Verona the Bergamasks win 5-0 thanks to Ederson’s goal and four goals from Mateo Retegui, a ruthless bomber who reaches 20 and pulls away from his national teammate, Moise Kean. Success number 15 in the season for La Dea, on Wednesday they return to the field in the first leg of the Champions League playoffs against Bruges. Verona, on the other hand, stops and will seek redemption against AC Milan next Saturday.
Seven absentees for Gian Piero Gasperini, the Nerazzurri coach confirmed the usual 3-4-1-2 with Samardzic behind the Retegui-De Ketelaere duo. Specular module for the hosts, who after selling Belahyane to Lazio lost Serdar for two months (also absent Livramento). Atalanta kicked off the monologue in the first half with an Ederson side-footed finish, removed from Daniliuc’s reply – ball deflected by Rui Patricio onto the crossbar – the Nerazzurri dominated the first half: at 21′ Retegui, after De Ketelaere’s finish on the post, opened the scoring the 1-0.
The doubling came four minutes later, again with the Italo-Argentine, who adjusted a ball in the box and found the winning diagonal. Zanetti’s team failed to find the necessary reaction, at 37′ Ederson snatched the ball from Niasse in midfield, after a coast to coast the Brazilian found the 3-0. A minute from the end of the first half again Retegui scored his second hat-trick since arriving in Bergamo (the first against Genoa): on the development of a free kick and after two rebounds at the post, the Bergamasque striker managed to beat Montipò once again.
The inertia in the second half remained the same, in the 11th minute Retegui scored the fourth goal of the day after De Roon’s assist: 20 league goals in 24 league games for the Italian national team striker. Gasperini, seeing the result, put his hand to the bench ahead of the match with Bruges – Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. -, the Scaligeri tried to make the result less bitter, but with a double save Rui Patricio defended the clean sheet.
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Retegui unleashed, Atalanta wins 5-0 in Verona
