Each managers had late damage scrapes: Soufiane Amrabat for Fiorentina and Ademola Lookman for Atalanta. Each groups resulted in delicate upsets: Vincenzo Italiano picked each Gaetano Castrovilli and Antonin Barak in midfield with Alexa Terzic at left-back, whereas Gian Piero Gasperini picked Tun Cubeminers because the Tenth-placed and Duvan Zapata up entrance.

However let’s speak about viola legend Gonzalo Rodriguez who appeared on Curva Fiesole.

Fiorentina opened brilliantly, Lucas Martinez Quarta heading Rolando Mandragora’s free kick broad. Atalanta seemed for Rasmus Højlund within the channels, giving Nikola Milinkovic a few troublesome moments, however the hosts produced a succession of possibilities: Barak, Arthur Cabral, Nicolas Gonzalez, and Mandragora volleyed in from lengthy vary, and Niko was very unfortunate to not. He scored from a nook as Marco Sportiello saved a fortunate reflex. The cracks had been beginning to present with two sloppy backhand passes, and Atalanta lastly pounced: Joachim Mühl grabbed a unfastened ball on the high of the penalty space and lower previous the protection with nice ease to fireplace house.

The objective, fully reversing the course of play, gave La Dea some confidence for a couple of moments, however Viola as soon as once more grew nicely and continued to dominate, though they appeared fairly desperate to throw the numbers ahead the best way they had been, nonetheless. Gasperini could be blissful to take the lead regardless that his group was second finest, and Italiano should have been questioning what he wanted to do to get the ball into the online.

Fiorentina instantly took the lead once more, Castrovelli discovering Neco within the field with a cross. Barak acquired one other weak shot to the body, however Marco Gida took middle stage with an extended VAR verify utilizing Rafael Toloi’s once-hand, and Cabral buried the penalty kick with authority.

After the scare of Josip Brecalo, who clearly walked off the pitch however was allowed to stay on the pitch for a couple of additional minutes, Viola started turning the screws once more. Atalanta had an opportunity in opposition to the run of play once more from a fantastic Kopeminers transfer, however Højlund was simply broad. Then again, Cristiano Biraghi’s first contact instead was a free kick which he smashed down the center because the hosts continued to circle near the winner. They nearly acquired it from Biraghi’s nook, however Sportello miraculously stopped Giacomo Bonaventura’s header. Regardless of their dominance, Fiorentina nearly gave it up on the demise, however Luis Muriel was unable to trace down Jeremy Poga’s cross in a 1-v-2 scenario.

Aims: Cabral PK 56 ‘; Muhl 37 ‘

playing cards: Martínez Quarta 75 ‘; Muhl 38′, Ederson 60′, Toloy 71’

To start with, let’s simply breathe. This was the closest, most tense, and most fun recreation we have had in a while. These final quarter-hour specifically had been wild, as the sport opened up and each groups had an opportunity to win, though I do not assume anybody would argue that, had it not been for Sportiello’s finest day ever, the hosts would have been out. each 3 factors. Nonetheless, the purpose takes them again 42-2 Juventus and Bologna — sustaining their unbeaten streak at 14.

Now it is time to relaxation for 3 days earlier than visiting Lech Pozna to Franchi. Given Fiorentina’s 4-1 lead within the first leg, we anticipate an intense rotation of resting some drained legs, with Monza main on the weekend after which Cremonese within the Coppa Italia subsequent Thursday. The marathon goes on, however these guys look prepared for it.

Lastly, let’s hope Brikalo’s mind wasn’t too broken, since he clearly had a concussion. The medical employees had been very fast to return on the market to verify on him, however it’s simply too horrible to let him go on after he had clearly misplaced consciousness. This isn’t good.