Atalanta are unconvincing but are in fourth place

Atalanta won this Sunday at home against Hellas Verona (0-1) thanks to a goal from Dutchman Teun Koopmeiners, who, with a strong and tight shot from outside the area, sealed the second victory for his team after three days of Series A .

Atalanta, unbeaten, placed fourth. However, the feeling expected by the group led by the Italian Gian Piero Gasperini is that of a team without a spark, which has difficulty reaching the rival area and which, when it happens, does not have a clear idea to be fulfilled.

An even match against Verona, who have had a poor start to the campaign so far. With two defeats and a draw, they are sixteenth in the table, although they face two superior rivals such as Atalanta and Napoli.

Another long shot goal

With not too many chances for either team, Koopmeiners jumped onto the scene like his Ukrainian teammate Ruslan Malinovsky did the day before against Milan: with a long shot.

And it seems that this will be one of the repeated solutions of Gasperini’s ‘Dea’ due to his lack of depth and occasions. The reasons are not lacking, of course. With players who have shots of the quality of the Ukrainian or Dutch, this is more than a valid resource, even if it is not the permanent solution to Atalanta’s problems.

Verona came close to equalizing through Serbian Darko Lazovic, who crashed a shot over the crossbar with half an hour to go in what was the best moment of a home team that fought to the end to score.

Zapata and Muriel, pointless

The Colombians Duván Zapata and Luis Muriel, now the starter and substitute, respectively, do not have the expected weight in the attack, always too alone or far from the danger, accusing the game crisis that the team is going through of Bergamo, which at the moment is being resolved. long shot base.

Despite everything, Atalanta are in the Champions League positions, while Verona need a victory to change the negative dynamic in which they find themselves.