The coach after the 3-0 in Frankfurt: “We could have scored even more. My team wrote an adjective to start again. We must have the humility of the Bergamo players”
Raffaele Palladino and his “magic night”: on his debut in the Champions League on the Eintracht Frankfurt pitch he achieved a 3-0 victory, giving Atalanta another three precious points to advance to 10 in 5 games and put one foot in the playoffs. It is also his first Nerazzurri success: “This is the victory of a group that has great human and technical values, which deserved this satisfaction.”
satisfaction
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“I saw the work of the boys”, continues the coach, “and they gave me an unforgettable evening, now we have to be good at staying humble. We needed a spark to unblock ourselves mentally and it arrived. The team follows what we propose, we’ve been together for a week and I’ve already seen great progress, we challenged a team with values. We, with personality and some difficulties, played as a team, we weren’t able to unblock it immediately, we took two posts. We could have scored even more”.
THE ANECDOTE
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The coach then concluded by recounting an episode that happened in the locker room in recent days: “I wanted to write on a piece of paper the DNA that this team had to find again: each of them gave me an adjective to focus on. Important things came out, tonight I saw them all on the pitch: enthusiasm, courage, alchemy, lightness, ambition, but also hunger. I hung it up in the locker room. Our DNA must be that of the Bergamo players, we must remain humble. I am convinced that together we will do great things with this mentality. The technical values are there, I’m not a magician who invented different things.”
the ranking
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And now the situation in the League Phase also becomes interesting with 10 points in 5 games which are worth tenth place, tied among others with Chelsea, Dortmund and Manchester City. “But right now I’m not thinking about the goals, the round of 16 or the playoffs: tonight it was important to win for our minds, for the path we’re on together. I was interested in the victory tonight because the boys deserved it.” And in closing: “If we are at 10 points it is also thanks to Juric’s management and for this I thank him for the journey.”
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