Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini was please after his team thrashed Verona 5-0 in Serie A on Saturday and expressed relief that there were no further injury concerns.
“La Dea” have been struggling in the last months, สนใจสมัคร? คลิกที่นี่เพื่อเริ่มต้น both in the league and in Europe, with a number of injuries, which has led to poor performances. Most recently losing at home to Bologna and being eliminate in the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia.
Gasperini “We had the right game in the first half,” the 67-year-old told DAZN after the game. “In the second half we changed players to avoid injuries.”
“Today is the first time in several weeks that we have no injuries. That is the most important thing for us,”
For their next game, Atalanta will visit Club Brugge in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League play-off on February 12.
“Our results recently have not been good, but we were slowed down by injuries, some of them very serious. Even the smaller injuries mean if you are out for two weeks, you miss six games.”
Before this triumph, Gasperini’s men had won only one of their last six Serie A matches and were fresh off the midweek Coppa Italia loss to Bologna.