Atalanta's dominance in Serie A continued with a victory against Empoli, fueled by their recent winning streak and a remarkable resurgence.
The game had not even kicked off and it was starting to feel like a prize ceremony. Ademola Lookman held up the trophy he won as the. Atalanta ’s president, Antonio Percassi, beamed as he handed over Serie A ’s coach of the month award to Gian Piero Gasperini.conducted by the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. It had ranked Bergamo, where Atalanta are based, as the best place to reside in all of Italy. “As a Bergamasco, I can confirm those statistics,” he replied with a laugh.
The American football coach Vince Lombardi, a five-time NFL champion in the 1960s and still regarded as one of the greatest in his sport, famously said: “Winning is not a sometime thing. It’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time.” How fitting, six decades later, that a football team from the Lombardy region should carry that message forward. Atalanta never used to win much of anything, besides the occasional Serie B title as they bounced back and forth between Italy’s top two divisions. Before thearrived for Sunday’s game against Empoli on a run of 10 consecutive league victories. That run had carried them to the top of the Serie A table, though Napoli’s win over Genoa on Saturday had bumped them back into second pending the result of this game. Empoli began the weekend 10th in the table, but anybody who has paid attention to Roberto D’Aversa’s side would know better than to take them lightly. One of the youngest teams in, led by a pair of recent Italy Under-21 forwards in Lorenzo Colombo and Sebastiano Esposito, they won away to Roma already this season as well as drawing with Juventus and Fiorentina. It was Colombo who put Empoli ahead in the 13th minute, converting a cutback from his Scottish teammate Liam Henderson. Atalanta responded with goals from Charles De Ketelaere and Lookman before half-time. They had hit the woodwork twice by then, playing with authority and aggressive inten
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