Gian Piero Gasperini and ‘troublesome to simply accept’ after such a powerful efficiency, however ‘we emerge stronger from video games like this.’
La Dea had been unbeaten in 15 Serie A rounds, though their progress had been slowing in current weeks with three consecutive stalemates.
Mateo Retegui’s opener was cancelled out by Matteo Politano and Scott McTominay, with Ademola Lookman taking up your entire opposition defence single-handed for 2-2.
Nevertheless, Romelu Lukaku shrugged off Giorgio Scalvini for a glancing header to determine the 3-2 end in Bergamo.
“This can be a defeat we battle to swallow contemplating the way in which we performed and the statistics, however that is soccer. It takes nothing away from the standard of Napoli, however it’s troublesome to simply accept,”
“We play each three days, there is perhaps some performances the place you don’t give your finest, however in the previous couple of weeks we’ve got performed Lazio, Juventus, Inter and Napoli, so the perfect in Italian soccer.
“It’s effective, we’ve got to concentrate on our journey and maybe at this time we paid a heavy value, in different video games we had been luckier, however total I noticed an excellent efficiency.”
Gasperini targeted on Atalanta performances
within the Serie A standings, though Gasperini had all the time been adamant they shouldn’t be thought-about a part of the Scudetto race.
“We aren’t going to be distracted by outcomes, we take a look at the performances. With Lazio, we might’ve received or misplaced, Juventus had been very clammed up and targeted on defence, whereas we had lots of high quality tonight towards a powerful facet like Napoli. It’s maybe true, our solely barely disappointing efficiency was towards Udinese,” added the coach.
“I keep we emerge stronger from video games like this. We now have the Champions League, then Serie A and the Coppa Italia, we’re enjoying each three days, so we should not have time for regrets over a end result that didn’t go our method.”
Of the three targets, it was put to Gasperini that two had been attributable to defensive errors and it was additionally the primary time in Serie A this season that Atalanta conceded with a header.
“With errors like that in a standard match, you run a threat, however in a sport like this you’ll lose. We ruined the end result, we must be extra cautious on incidents, however I proceed to keep up they are often teachable moments.”
There was a blow at this time with information Odilon Kossounou had surgical procedure on a torn adductor tendon and ought to be out of motion for at the very least three months. Is Gasperini asking the membership to purchase a substitute?
“We now have not talked in regards to the switch market since August, so we’re not going to start out now. Kossounou is disappointing, he might be out for a very long time. Between Scalvini, Scamacca and now Kossounou, we’ve been unfortunate with critical accidents, however we will’t simply continually purchase gamers each time somebody will get harm.”