Ferland Mendy gave the victory to Real on the lawn of Atalanta.
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Tiziana FABI / AFP
An improbable goal for a victory out of nowhere.
In great difficulty to create opportunities against a team of Atalanta severely reduced to ten after twenty minutes, Real Madrid got away with a satchel from the right of Ferland Mendy after a moderately mastered combination on a corner.
“Yes, it was a desired action, but it was not Ferland who had to shoot (laughs), Zizou also admitted.
But at the finish it was Ferland who scored from the right, so that's very good.
This right foot, he has had it for a long time.
He hits harder with the right than with the left.
His left foot is more precise, the right more powerful.
It's like that.
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The only decisive signing of Real in recent seasons scored his first goal in the competition, and he told RMC that he found himself a little annoyed at the time: “At the time (of the goal), I was very happy , I did not even know how to celebrate since it is my first goal in the Champions League!
Anyway, the main thing is that we won the match, and in addition for me to have scored.
It is true that we were at times lacking ideas because they played well the low block, it was complicated to find intervals or deep passes.
At eleven against eleven, I don't know if they would have played the same way.
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Let us still count on the Gasperini team to make life difficult on the return to this Real undermined by absences and completely powerless in attack.
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