Rome (AFP)
Match after match, Atalanta is always more impressive: opposite a team in good shape, Naples, the club of Bergamo won again on Wednesday during the 29th day of Serie A (2-0) and took a step more towards a new qualification for the Champions League.
With this success, Gian Piero Gasperini's team consolidated their 4th place and provisionally took 12 points ahead of AS Rome (5th), who will receive Udinese at 9:45 p.m.
But even if the giallorossi won, it is difficult to see how they could return to the Atalanta, as it displays with each match its confidence, its offensive verve and its physical freshness.
The Bergamasques resumed their championship as they had left it at the time of confinement: by winning nonstop, and they are seven wins in a row in Serie A.
Wednesday, they were still hampered by the defensive organization of Naples, which since the return to competition had also convinced with two victories in two league matches and its success in the Italian Cup.
But an accelerator after the break was enough and Atalanta struck twice, first by Pasalic (47th) on a perfect cross from captain "Papu" Gomez, then by Gosens (55th), the lateral most offensive of Serie A.
Naples, which lost in the 30th minute its goalkeeper Ospina, hit in the head, remains still 6th in the championship, but loses an opportunity to return to Roma.
Atalanta continues its incredible season. After Serie A, it will be in the quarter-finals of the Champions League and will have to be taken seriously.
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