Parma-Atalanta 1-1, goal by Pasalic and Cutrone

Atalanta is subscribed to the draw. After the 1-1 at the championship debut in the house against Pisa, here is another 1-1, this time away, to Tardini against Parma. Right result because, after a first half with few occasions and many yawns, in the second half the teams are equivalent for attempts from the net and danger. Of course, to find the passage of the last seasons, the Bergamoes have to work a lot: the maneuver is decidedly slower than before and the pressing is not so furious (and, consequently, effective). Parma, who came from the defeat in Turin against Juve at the debut and, therefore, was mainly looking for certainties and solidity, proves to have large margins of improvement (the stop will do well), but also a considerable capacity for reaction, both technical and on the moral level.

grayness

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Atalanta spreads on the field, as usual, according to 3-4-2-1, but forgets in the changing rooms both the rhythm and the determination. Too tender in the contrasts, the Bergamo players. Too slow in making the ball run. And, above all, too available to backward passages (which is forbidden with Gasperini) and not very inclined to attack opponents in pressing. In short, a soft version of the goddess. To which the Parma of Carlos Cuesta opposes with caution and attention. The 3-5-2 is, in reality, a 5-4-1 in the non-possession phase, because Almqvist scales almost always on the right and helps Lovik to contain the advances of Zaleski. It is perceived, in the construction of the maneuver, a certain shyness from the Emilians who do not have very clear ideas when they have to bring dangers near the Atalantine area. This was born a rather gray first half, colored only by a pole hit by Scamacca (minute 19) after a sensational Keita error during the disengagement, from a sinister on the fly of Lautaro Valenti who ends to the side (37 ‘) and by a razor of Bernabè who engaged Carnesecchi in the 44th minute.

Botta and response

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Parma rises in the start of recovery and pressing forcing Atalanta in its half of the field. However, the Emilians are unable to produce anything dangerous, if not a shot of oristan, to his debut. And then it is the Bergamo players who take the stage with an insistent maneuver that ends on Pasalic’s feet, after a wise touch of Krstovic. The razor of the midfielder is surgical, Suzuki cannot do anything about it. It is the 34th minute of the second half, there is a short time and then Carlos Cuesta invents the decisive replacement: it takes away a midfielder (Keita) and inserts another striker (Cutrone). Parma is drawn with a piece of arrogant 3-4-2-1 and is Cutrone, also at the debut in the crusade shirt, to stamp the goal of the well-deserved draw. Punishment from the trocar, he stands out of his head, Carnesecchi is destined to deviate, but the ball remains there and Cutrone is very skilled and very fast to throw it inside. It is the 40 ‘and the Emilians insist and still push on the accelerator, even if they have to be careful not to discover too much because Atalanta awaits sly and starts a great career. Suzuki does a good guard on an initiative on the counterpart of the goddess and the referee Mariani, helped by the Var, sees well on a contrast in the area between Djimsiti and Oristanio: it is not a penalty. In the end, right draw.