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February 15, 2020 Atalanta returns to home success after two games and does so in the Champions League play-off against Roma. The 2-1 of the Gewiss Stadium brings the orobics to +6 on the Giallorossi in the race in fourth place, plus with the direct clashes in favor. And with a thousand morale, Gasperini's troop can now face the historic Champions League eighth final against Valencia (Wednesday the first leg).Gomez and Ilicic behind Zapata, Hateboer and Gosens on the lanes, Pasalic on the bench: these are the choices of Gasperini's 3-4-2-1. Fonseca launches Bruno Peres owner, Mancini (as in the previews) goes to midfield in place of the suspended Cristante. Next to him Pellegrini, bench for Veretout. The midfielders behind Dzeko are Kluivert, Mkhitaryan and Perotti. The Giallorossi contain the gusts of the orobics and manage them easily for long stretches. In the first few bars there is Ilicic's filter towards the very free Gomez who rides towards Pau Lopez and clumsily pulls on him. At half an hour the Slovenian turns Gosens' interesting suggestion to the side. Then, following a pattern on punishment, Toloi upside down misses the door slightly. Roma can be seen on the curtain of the first fraction and leaves its mark. Perotti breaks through to the left and serves on Pellegrini's trailer which is beaten by Djimsiti. Just at 45 'Palomino's colossal mistake that leaves the ball to Dzeko, the Bosnian flies towards the door and stabs Gollini.
The Argentine defender is forgiven in a few minutes in the second half. Corner for the orobics at 50 ', Djimsiti's header becomes an assist on the second post for Palomino who bags the equal. Atalanta becomes a hammer. Gosens crosses from the left, nobody comes to the center but Hateboer comes out on the right who kicks, Fazio saves on the line, the ball comes out from the area where De Roon arrives who kicks first, Pau Lopez extends in the corner. Gasperini changes the interpreters on the chessboard, Pasalic for Zapata. The Croatian is just in time to tread the field that overturns the game. At minute 59 Atalanta tries the breakthrough in the area on the left, a series of beats and retorts with Gosens who manages to touch towards Pasalic which is produced in a right that raises the proverbial cobweb from the 'seven'. Carles Perez for Kluivert is Fonseca's immediate choice, followed by Veretout for Mancini. But it is Atalanta that continues to be preferred with at times asphyxiating pressing that keeps Roma in its metacampo. Then Fonseca tries the Villar card, for Perotti. The orobics stagger on a couple of defensive uncertainties, but this time Dzeko can't get to the shot. On the other side Pau Lopez is busy until the last moment of recovery, when he has to intervene on the dry punishment of the new entry Muriel.