Atalanta coach: We feel very sorry for missing a historic opportunity in the European Champions
The coach of the Italian team Atalanta, Jean Piero Gasperini, expressed his deep disappointment at the wasted victory in the fatal minutes against Paris Saint-Germain, yesterday in the Champions League in football. Atalanta took the lead of the Croatian Mario Pasalic until the ninetieth minute, when the Brazilian equaled Marquinhos, then the Cameroonian Eric Maxim Chubu Muteng scored the winning goal in the substitution time for lost.
Gasperini told Sky Sports: "I must say that we feel a lot of regret for missing a historic opportunity. We were very close, it was very close. It looked like we would achieve a great achievement." "We can feel good from the experience, our development in the Champions League. It looked as if we did," he said.
The Bergamo city team, severely affected by the emerging Corona virus, was on its way to follow its wonderful story in the Champions League and reach the semi-finals for the first time in its history, before the diagonally-owned team turned the tables on it in the fatal moments and hit a date with the winner showing Atletico Madrid of Spain and Leipzig of Germany Who meet today.
On the entry of striker Kylian Mbappe, who returned from an ankle injury in the last half hour, Gasperini, who led his team to third place in the league for two consecutive seasons and scored 98 goals in Serie A, said: "Mbappe's entry and the presence of Neymar turned things around in the interest of Paris Saint-Germain." "His entry gave Paris Saint-Germain an energy that was on his way to losing the match," he added about the young world champion striker, "because of what he did in the match." "The equalizer gives us some bitterness. But Paris Saint-Germain has a good chance of reaching the final," he added.