Atalanta tie a boost for Inter’s rivals
MILAN: Atalanta gave Inter Milan’s Serie A title rivals a boost on Sunday with a goalless draw which ends the champions’ eight-match winning run and offers AC Milan the chance to claim top spot.
A keenly-fought contest in Bergamo finished with a blank scoresheet despite each side creating a handful of golden scoring opportunities, with goalkeepers Juan Musso and Samir Handanovic excelling between their respective sticks.
Simone Inzaghi’s Inter stay top but Milan, who are two points behind their local rivals in second, can take the summit with a win over Spezia at the San Siro on Monday evening.
“For how the match went a point is good... We had good chances but they could also have scored, so I think that it was the right result,” Handanovic told DAZN.
Atalanta stay eight points back in fourth but can take huge credit from their display with a clutch of key players unavailable injured or with Covid19 infections.
They were a point behind thirdplaced Napoli ahead of their match at Bologna yesterday hoping to gain some ground on Inter, who like Atalanta will have played a game fewer come the end of this round of fixtures.
“If anything we did a bit more than them. Inter sat very deep and waited for us to make a mistake,” said Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini.
“Overall I think we deserved something more from the game.”