The team of Colombians Luis Fernando Muriel and Duván Zapata was completely neutralized and with a strong 0-2 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, they lost the 1-3 series against RB Leipzig in the quarter-finals of the 2021/22 UEFA Europa League.
With a 3-4-2-1 scheme, the Italian coach Gian Piero Gasperini lined up as the only 9 points and started El Toro Duván Zapata, who could do little against the German team starting the 90 minutes of the commitment.
The French Leipzig scorer Christopher Nkunku quickly put the 0-1 in the afternoon to the 18th minute of the match on Italian soil. After receiving a side pass on the right wing of his teammate Konrad Laimer, the French gunner shook the goal defended by Argentina's Juan Musso with a strong right hand and with the help of the stick, thus the visitors celebrated the first goal cry of the game:
On the other hand, Atlantic Luis Fernando Muriel entered the 58th minute of the match to replace Ukrainian striker Ruslan Malinovskyi, who was snatched a penalty by VAR at the start of the second half.
Zapata received a yellow card stock in the 58th minute of the game for protesting an arbitration decision to the Spanish referee Antonio Mateu and desperation gripped the black-blue squad at home.
Coach Gian Piero Gasperini gave too much offensive advantage with Luis Fernando Muriel on the bench almost the entire start. He saved the former Deportivo Cali player who also performed well in the first leg in Germany, depriving him of consolidating a good offensive tandem with his compatriot of the Colombian national team, Duván Zapata.
This Colombian connection was activated at the end of the meeting with Luis Cabeceados centers without the direction indicated by Duvan. Afterwards, the German team locked themselves close to their goalkeeper and surrounded him with three scorers. Nkunku secured the Leipzig qualification with a penalty at 87′ for 0-2.
This shot stopped from twelve steps buried all Atalanta's illusion of dreaming of an international semifinal and the overall score became 1-3 with five minutes left for the final whistle in Bergamo:
Thus, Atalanta will end its season with a single local competition. The club of Muriel and Zapata is eighth in the Italian league, 11 points behind the last place in the UEFA Champions League.
The Goddess of Bergamo has once again missed the possibility of a new title, since the last one they won was in 2011 when they won the Serie B del Calcio, a tournament they also held in 2006, 1984, 959, 940 and 1928. His most important achievement in the list is a Coppa Italia, won in 1963 against Torino.
Precisely in the Italian Cup, those from Bergamo have come from being runners-up in the 2019 and 2021 editions, falling to Lazio and Juventus, respectively.
His next challenge for Serie A will be this Monday, April 11, when he hosts Hellas Verona for matchday 33 of the Italian first division league.
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