Berat Djimsiti was in no temper to search for alibis after Atalanta went out of the Champions League to Membership Brugge. ‘They’re a superb workforce and have been lethal on the counter-attack.’
This play-off felt cursed from the sealed by a comical penalty choice in stoppages, then they discovered themselves regardless of forcing saves, hitting the woodwork and denied by goal-line clearances.
When Ademola Lookman did get them again into it on his return from a prolonged harm lay-off, his penalty was then parried by Simon Mignolet to additional take the wind out of their sails.
“It’s tough to seek out the phrases proper now. We congratulate Brugge, that they had three targets with three counter-attacks, they knew what they have been doing and made our recreation extra difficult,”
“I nonetheless noticed spirit from the workforce, we by no means gave up and regardless of this defeat, we’ve got to get our heads up and deal with the subsequent Serie A match.”
Unfortunate Atalanta take accountability
Atalanta had such an unfortunate Champions League marketing campaign from begin to end, together with losing a outstanding variety of alternatives within the 0-0 draw with Celtic and sustaining so many accidents.
Nonetheless, Djimsiti was in no temper for in search of alibis after a 5-2 combination defeat over two legs towards Membership Brugge.
“We had quite a lot of accidents, however Brugge are a superb workforce, they play properly and if something they brought about us extra issues within the first leg, however have been lethal on the counter-attack. It was unfortunate, however we too should have a look at what we are able to do higher, as a result of in a recreation like this we can not go 3-0 down at half-time,” added the defender.
“Now we’ve got to recharge our batteries, take it one recreation at a time and be taught from our errors.”
Atalanta are additionally out of the Coppa Italia following a 1-0 quarter-final defeat to Bologna, so now all their focus have to be on Serie A.
