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Atalanta sit sixth in Serie A, having won four and lost three of eight games.  Last term they finished behind only the big three in Italy: Inter, Milan and Juventus, while beating undefeated German champions, Bayer Leverkusen, in the Europa League in Dublin.

After a poor August, when they lost the Super Cup to Real Madrid and endured league defeats at Torino and Inter, they found their rhythm.  They  have yet to concede in the Champions League (0-0 home to Arsenal and 0-3 away win against Shakhtar Donetsk) and go into tomorrow’s game against Celtic in good form, having scored 10 and conceding only once this month.

The word we heard after Champions League matchday 2 was “clinical”, used repeatedly to describe Borussia Dortmund.  Expect nothing less from Atalanta.  This is a team full of confidence who will exploit open spaces.  We may hear “clinical” mentioned a lot in Europe this season.

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  2. hankray on

    I was always familiar with the usual suspects in Italian football ie the Milans , Juventus, Roma etc but when I first heard of Atalanta………….who the fk are they ? was my reaction in ignorance until I watched their brilliant performance in the Europa. I even spelled the name wrong like the American city in the delta blues city in the deep south.

     

     

    So it’s expect the worst and hope for the best tomorrow night. This will be as tough if not more so than Dortmund. The difference being we went into the Dortmund match with an over inflated confidence that all went horribly wrong. This time i expect the team to give a performance and that will satisfy me regardless of result.

  5. Darwin on

    hankray on 22nd October 2024 6:33 pm

     

     

    The difference being we went into the Dortmund match with an over inflated confidence that all went horribly wrong.

     

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    100% correct – off the back a victory against St Johnstone to boot.

     

     

    We now expect the worst and hope for the best – what will we get? HH

  7. Tom McLaughlin on

    No sympathy for ICT as they go into administration.

     

     

    Can never forgive them for cheating Ronnie Deila’s team out of a treble. Not just the cheating itself, but the way the broadcast and print media in Scotland made Josh Meekings into a hero for the expert way he conned the match officials, although every Celtic supporter knows the officials were complicit in the conning.

     

     

    Here’s hoping they end up in the Highland League, or better still, fold into oblivion.

  8. Tom McLaughlin on

    Robbie Savage sounds like he’s commentating on a funeral.

     

     

    Cracking goal for 10 man Brugge.

     

     

    1-1

  12. Saint Stivs on

    sick notr implies someone hiding behind their injury to avoid playing.

     

     

    listen to brendan pre match saturday.

     

     

    cvv is genuinely iand carried this toe problem for seasons.

     

     

    manager wont play him until fully recovered.

     

     

    simple as that.

  13. Darwin on

    CCV has been a rock and a standout since he joined us – I want him back fit regardless of his ‘problems’ – we need him asap HH

  14. Turkeybhoy on

    Brugge not looking such an easy game now for us.Never easy as such,but one we were really banking on in one of our home games.

     

    Atalanta,lost,IMO the best midfield player in Europe,Koopmeiners to Juventus,and have missed him badly,as their domestic form shows.

     

    Not the same team without him,but still strong.Retegui,now their star act.We will need to stop him,or could face another Adeyemi performance.

     

    Nothing to stop us playing very well,as Brugge did tonight.We are capable of it.

  15. Turkeybhoy on

    CCV,not a “Sick note”. Problem we have when he is out,we do not have a Right sided CH.Trusty,who I like,has done well,but stepping up to this level,that can,and probably will be exploited by Atalanta manager,who will know all about it.

  16. glendalystonsils on

    A significant improvement tomorrow night would be not passing the ball to the opposition . Another would be not taking unneccessary risks aroud our own box . In other words , don’t make it as easy for Atalanta as we did against Dortmund. May or may not help us avoid a hammering but it would sure help my blood pressure .

  23. Tobago Street on

    Half Time. BVB up 2-0. RM hit the post twice in quick succession after going behind!

     

     

    T

  24. Turkeybhoy on

    Tom Mc Laughlin,

     

    RE,That wee conversation we had on Brandt after our game.He has been magnificent 1st half against Madrid.Our luck,don’t think Adeyemi has played for Dortmund since.

     

    That mention I gave Koopmeiners earlier,not playing tonight,and Juve very poor without him.

  25. Turkeybhoy on

    This Steaua Chairman is a real rocket.Sending a reserve team to Ibrox on Thursday night and naming them.Saying,”Let’s see how good their manager is”

     

    WTF.

     

    Unless its the biggest bullshit ever.

  26. bankiebhoy1 on

    Disappointed Big CCV is out………….but think we are right to keep him ’till he’s 10 per cent.

     

     

    Hoping for a much better performance against Atalanta but not expecting a result.

     

     

    HH

  27. celtic40me on

    THE BATTERED BUNNET on 22ND OCTOBER 2024 1:41 PM

     

     

    “Barca had 85% possession, 24 attempts at goal, 14 on target, 1 goal.

     

     

    We completed just 44% of our passes, gave the ball away 136 times (there was rarely a forward pass to be found), had 4 attempts at goal, 3 of which on target, 2 goals.

     

     

    Was Lenny the rope-a-dope clever clogs? Had he conceived of a new system to compete in Europe? Or was that Barca team not quite up to snuff (they lost 7-0 on aggregate to Bayern in the semis) and we got lucky that night?

     

     

    Someone will likely have done the XG analysis, but it’s not needed. Much as the result was astonishing and the adrenaline level maintained at ‘wired’ for days afterwards, any other day of the year we’d have been pumped with that performance. And we often have been since. The next year they beat us 6-1.”

     

     

    I think you’re being a bit unfair on Lenny there. We’d been beaten with an injury time goal in the Nou Camp two weeks previous to our 2-1 victory in a game with almost identical stats and lineups.

     

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    And while they got a tanking in the semi it was against one of the best Bayern teams ever, and it was still a very good Barca – one of only two teams to finish the season with 100 points ever in la Liga.

     

     

    It wasn’t a one-off but it was probably tactics and a line up that would only have worked that well against that Barcelona side who played in such a specific and predictable way. Pep’s Tiki Taka.

  31. An Tearmann on

    Always remember 92.1% of players played in Murrays liquidated era 1998-2012 were not registered properly

     

     

    They are dead

     

     

    HH

  41. TexasTim on

    Vini doing to them what Adeyemi did to us, everything going in.

     

     

    Some times I miss the office vibe when working from home, not today, though.

     

     

    I hope I feel the same way tomorrow…!

  42. celtic40me on

    I think the argument about tactics comes down to giving yourself the best chance.

     

     

    Last season we weren’t conceding in the first 45 minutes and were in most of the games until late, I don’t remember us being as open as we were in Dortmund so early so maybe nothing more than a small tweak will be all that’s needed

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