A double for the Nigerian Ademola Lookman and a great goal from the Colombian Luis Muriel in addition time they allowed Atalanta beat 3-2 at home Milan and rediscover victory after two defeats in a row in the Italian soccer championship.
Lookman opened the scoring in the 38th minute at the Gewiss Stadium and put Gian Piero Gasperini’s team ahead again in the 55th minute after the partial tie declared by the Frenchman Olivier Giroud in the third minute added to the first chapter.
Milan, who never gave up, tied again in the 80th minute through the Serbian Luka Jovicentered eight minutes earlier in Stefano Pioli’s “rossonero”, who played from the 93rd minute with a man less due to the expulsion of Davide Calabria when Murielwho took the field at 82′, declared Atalanta’s victory in the fifth added minute.
It was with a heel and with great definition that gave the French goalkeeper no options. Mike Maignan due to the suddenness after a Russian authorization Alexey Miranchuk which also left Gasperini with his mouth open, as amazed as the nearly 15 thousand fans who celebrated the great goal and Atalanta’s return to victory.
He had just over 10 minutes to define the game with this great goal, coming on from the bench.
With you my chicken: Luis Fernando Muriel pic.twitter.com/c6SmTVKACl— Calcio De Palma (@CalcioDePalma) December 9, 2023
The “nerazzurro” of Bergamo, who had the Argentine goalkeeper from the beginning Juan Musso and with the Brazilian Ederson, they were reunited with victory thanks to Lookman and Muriel, replacement for the Belgian Charles De Ketelaere, who wasted a clear chance in the first half to put the local team ahead against his former teammates.
Milan, which left Argentine Luka Romero on the bench, could not achieve its third victory in a row in the championship after those obtained against Fiorentina and Frosinone and missed an opportunity to assert itself in third place, which it occupies with 29 points (a seven from Juventus and six from an Inter that later received Udinese in the last preview of the day).
Atalanta recovered from the setbacks it suffered against Napoli y Torino and climbed to sixth place, which he shares with Fiorentina (both with 23 points), visitor tomorrow to a Roma team that is fourth with 24 points, the same as Napoli (beaten 1-0 in Turin by Juventus in the match that started this fifteenth round).
Milan, who could not count on the injured Portuguese Rafael Leao and recovered Giroud after having completed the two suspension dates, will seek revenge on Wednesday against Newcastle, in what will be their last opportunity to advance to the round of 16 in the Champions League , in a Group F that has already qualified Borussia Dortmund, a rival of Paris Saint-Germain that must lose for the “rossonero” to keep its options.
“There are many games left in the championship and the objective is to achieve continuity,” Pioli warned in the run-up to the duel with an Atalanta team that needed to “raise its performance,” Gasperini stated, and who today again claimed victory for Lookman and Muriel, inexplicably. substitute in the Bergamo team.
Atalanta played with a black armband as a sign of mourning for the death of Luigi Milan, who died the day before and who played for the club between 1963 and 1969 and also won the Italian Cup and Cup of Cups (today UEFA Cup) with Fiorentina in 1961. .