The Atalanta won 3-2 this Saturday at the stadium Diego Armando Maradona against him Naples, who lost the leadership and fell to third position, and confirmed his great form, waiting to play the pass to the round of 16 of the Champions next wednesday against him Villarreal in Bergamo.
The team of Gian Piero Gasperini shielded his fourth position and was placed two points behind Naples, which is now third, three from Inter Milan and four from Milan, the new leader.
Before a Naples weighed down by injuries, without the Spanish Fabian Ruiz, the Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly, Lorenzo Insigne, the Nigerian Victor Osimhen and the Cameroonian Frank Zambo Anguissa, the Atalanta he had control of the game, although the locals played with great commitment and did damage with their quick counterattacks.
The ukrainian Ruslan Malinovsky He put Atalanta ahead in the seventh minute with a great goal with his left leg from the Colombian. Duván Zapata, but Naples managed to turn the scoreboard, with a goal from the Pole Piotr Zielinski before the break, and another to the Belgian’s counterattack Dries Mertens two minutes after the restart.
The Atalanta, true to his game, he did not lose lucidity and, after a header to a Duván and another great stop of the Colombian goal David ospina after a header from the Italian-Brazilian Rafael Toloi, turned the scoreboard in the space of five minutes, between 66 and 71.
Demiral, a central defender, made it 2-2 with a goal from a pure striker, and the Swiss Remo Freuler made it 3-2 with a graceful left-footed shot off an assist from Slovenian Josip Ilicic.
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