Just like the nickname “goddess Legion” of the team, Atlanta this season is really amazing.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 11 (Reporter Wei Hua) for the first time in the history of the 16th Champions League this season, teams from the five major leagues have taken over it, which seems to be calm, in fact, there is no lack of “intruders” who bring surprises to the outside world, such as Atlanta, which first appeared on this elite stage.
On the 11th, Atlanta continued to write history. Relying on Illicic’s “Big Four Happiness”, they “killed” Valencia. The total score was 8:4 to eliminate opponents and advance into the top eight. In this special period when the Serie A league was suspended due to the epidemic, Atlanta was like a fire of Italian football in the Champions League.
When it comes to Atlanta, perhaps the first reaction of most people will be the American city that held the 1996 Olympic Games, and this “century-old shop” located in Bergamo, a city in northern Italy, is not well known to people. The army was born in Atlanta in 1907, one year earlier than Inter Milan, which also took blue and black as the main color of the jersey.
It’s not too much to call Atlanta a small team. Although young pioneer team history have walked out of super shooters like Vieri and Inzaghi, Atlanta never touches the word “rich. In the ups and downs of the first class and the second class, they have never touched the top league crown, and the only honor to win is the Italian Cup champion. Among the top 16, their total value was the lowest. Even because the original home blue Arena did not meet the Champions League standards, the club had to borrow Inter Milan’s Giuseppe Meazza to participate. However, under such circumstances, Atlanta handed over a better answer sheet than the real owner of the stadium in maycha. Just like the nickname “goddess Legion” of the team, Atlanta this season is really amazing.
The group exit trip in Atlanta is amazing. At first, they were not optimistic about the Serie A’s third promotion to the Champions League in the above Season. They suffered three consecutive defeats in the first three group matches, among which there were many crisp defeats like 0:4 and 1:5, however, after the fourth round of 1:1 draw to Manchester City, the team started a good counterattack. With the final round of three goals to win Donetsk miners, they also became the first team in the history of the Champions League that lost three consecutive games but still advanced to the elimination match.
Where is the charm of “goddess? The answer is attack! Although there were no super strikers like Ronaldo and Levandowski in the array, the team scored 70 goals after 25 rounds of league matches, ranking only behind Paris Saint Germain and Bayern Munich in the five major leagues, this is valuable in Italy, which attaches great importance to defense.
Relying on grassroots shooters like Gomes and Zapata, Atlanta has constantly refreshed the Serie A record this season. The league scored 61 goals in 23 rounds, and creative a reached a new high in the same period of nearly 60 years. The team swept Lecce at 7:2 in the latest match, and Atlanta scored more than five goals in the league for the fifth time this season. The last time a team did this was AC Milan in 1958-1959, there are still more than ten rounds to end this season. Such firepower has to be envied.
From participating in the European war for the first time in 27 years in the 2017-2018 season, to ranking third in Serie A last season to complete the first show of the Champions League, in this process, team coach Gasperini contributed, this once-famous abandoned coach almost swept the title of best coach in Italy in the past season. Someone once asked whether Gasperini Atlanta could become Ajax last season. Coach Jia replied: “Be your own Atlanta!”
Never be considered to be promoted to the top eight. Now no one can say where the upper limit of this team is. Perhaps Atlanta could not fundamentally change the pattern of the Champions League dominated by giants, but it was precisely because of the existence of Atlanta that the Champions League in each season had different scenery.