After 45 minutes of play Atalanta is ahead against Empoli. Visitor takes the lead with Colombo in the 13th minute, De Ketelaere makes it 1-1 in the 35th minute, finally Lookman turns the ball on the scoresheet in full injury time.
Atalanta is sleeping, Colombo takes advantage
Gasperini, from the first moments, is not happy with his Atalanta. And in fact after just over ten minutes Empoli took advantage of a defensive sleep by the Dea, who lost Henderson on a lateral foul. All only the blue midfielder can look to the center and support Colombo: winning deviation from the Milan school boy and 0-1 at the Gewiss Stadium.
Not the usual Goddess, but here's the thing
So far a bad Atalanta, but more than ten minutes from the break the equalizer against Empoli comes: Charles scores De Ketelaere. In the most complicated moment, here is the shock that puts Gasperini's team back in the game. Cross from Zappacosta, dirty work from Zaniolo in capturing the defense's attention and a diving header from the attacking midfielder who scores the 1-1. Another former Milan player scores. And as the minutes pass, the Goddess returns to resemble her everyday one, faster and more dangerous than the one seen in the first half hour. On a dead ball Djimsiti hits the post, a little later another thrill for Vasquez.
The scratch of a dull Lookman
As soon as injury time begins, Ademola Lookman decides to enter the match and overturns the result. With his goal number nine, so far, for the fresh African Ballon d'Or: cross to the center, Zaniolo's block, control and winning right-footed shot from the Nigerian for the 2-1. In a complicated first half of the game, in which Lookman himself had been among the worst, here is his scratch: in the 45th minute Atalanta are ahead.
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