the dream ofAtalanta becomes mockery. Lose a game within two minutes, when the semi-final of the Champions League seemed conquered, it hurts, very bad indeed, at least in the heat. Because when cold, the Nerazzurri only need to be proud of what they've done, as demonstrated by the unbridled celebrations of the players of the psg, passed in a few moments from a sensational elimination to pass for the semifinal. The great regret remains for an almost missed and, net of the technical and, above all, economic difference between the two clubs, even deserved.
Decisive, in addition to the tiredness of the Goddess, Tuchel's bench, able to turn the match inside out with the insertions of Mbappé e Choupo Moting: the first put Gasperini in crisis with his speed, the second, taking over from a non-existent Icardi, propitiated a draw Marquinhos and made it 2-1. And so next Tuesday PSG will challenge the winner of Leipzig-Atletico Madrid (today at 21) in the semifinal, while Atalanta returns home sad, but with the knowledge that, after Italy, they have also enchanted Europe.
"The great regret is the fact that we arrived very close to the semifinal, it seemed we could do it, the company was one step away - he sighed Gasperini – The beauty of having made a growing Champions League remains, I can only thank all the guys for the season we've had. It really seemed done despite the difficulties of a difficult match, but the Champions League matches are special, the level is very high. Mourinho said that it is the competition of details and episodes, and it is the truth…”.
Shared analysis that of the Nerazzurri coach, because his team really sold their skin dearly in the face of the more popular PSG. Indeed, in the abundant hour between the goal of Pasalic (27') and that of Marquinhos (90') had practically kicked him out of the Champions League, forcing him to use all the resources at his disposal, which, unfortunately, are so many. Tuchel, virtually unemployed for long stretches of the match, was thus able to make up for the evenings not of Neymar and Icardi, a wasteful beyond all logic (the failed goal in the opening was sensational, but also in the closing of the first half), the other in a ghost version: certainly the Inter fans, with Monday night's Lukaku still in their eyes, will not have certainly had regrets seeing him in another shirt.
But then here are the inputs of Mbappé e Choupo Moting, in addition to those of Draxler e Paredes, against an Atalanta exhausted and weakened byGomez injury, forced to leave the field before the hour of play even struck. Such a difference could not fail to weigh on the match, yet the regret remains because Gasperini's team has failed with Djimsiti the ball of 2-0: it would have been the epitaph on the PSG grave, which instead remained alive. And when Marquinhos made it 1-1 30 seconds from the 90th minute, the castle collapsed under the weight of fatigue, as we saw two minutes later when Mbappé and Choupo-Moting made it 2-1. There would have been room for potential occasion of Muriel but the Colombian, thrown towards the Parisian gate, stumbled upon the most beautiful moment, denying himself a place in history. Even if, on closer inspection, this Atalanta had already earned it regardless.
