Europa League, Atalanta-Bayer: Gasp can believe it, in the Europa League he has never lost at home

La Dea has never faced Leverkusen, who have won only once against the Italians

After Olympyacos, now there is Bayer Leverkusen. Atalanta faces the German club at the Gewiss Stadium: kick-off on Thursday at 21. Gasperini’s team has recovered from the knockout with Roma: 1-0 the final result, Abraham’s goal was decisive. Gerardo Seoane’s men drew 1-1 with Bayern Munich.

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Atalanta are currently sixth in the league with 47 points. He has so far scored thirteen wins, eight draws and six defeats. In the last five Serie A matches, the Goddess has won only one victory, then three defeats and one draw. Third Leverkusen chases Dortmund: 45 points from Seoane’s team, five points from the Gialloneri. In the last eight Bundesliga games he has won five wins and two draws, only one knockout remedied on 18 February against Mainz.

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Atalanta and Bayer Leverkusen have never faced each other in European competitions. La Dea won only one of the four matches against German teams (2N, 1P): success came against Cologne in the first knockout round of the Uefa Cup 90-91. In Bergamo she is still unbeaten: in addition to Cologne, there was a 1-1 draw against Borussia Dortmund in the Europa League in 2018. Seoane’s men have achieved only one success in the previous 10 European away matches against Italian teams (3N, 6P) : ko in all the last three. The only success came in November ’99 against Udinese in the Uefa Cup. Muriel and his teammates have never lost a home match in the Europa League (6W, 4N). Only three defeats in the 20 total challenges. The numbers of the Germans are not encouraging: Bayer have lost three games in a row in the knockout stage of EL. The last time it did worse it came to four defeats between 2010 and 2013. But the Germans are the second team with more shots on target in this edition of the competition (49), behind Napoli (52), with two fewer games played.

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