Duván Zapata with Luis Fernando Muriel – Getty Images
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The two Colombian forwards scored in this Sunday’s victory for the Bergamo team over Udinese. Figures. One paved the way and the other jumped off the bench to crystallize victory.
Colombians Duván Zapata and Luis Fernando Muriel gave Atalanta a victory this Sunday, which is heading towards a new classification for the Champions League, by signing one and two goals, respectively, in the 3-2 win at home against Udinese on the twenty-eighth day of the Italian Serie A.
Duván, with his fourteenth league goal of the year, and Muriel, with two scoring wonders, one with a direct free kick and the other with a right hand from 20 meters, certified the sixth consecutive victory of an Atalanta who is increasingly a “great” of the Italian soccer.
Zapata started the game and made himself felt again, while Muriel emerged as a great figure and helped in an outstanding way to a victory, just at the moment when his contribution was most needed.
Great goals from Luis Fernando Muriel: extraordinary charges to put Atalanta to win
After ending an 18-game losing streak against Lazio on Wednesday, the Bergamo team imposed its law on Udinese’s field and shielded their fourth position, the last one worth the ticket for the 2020-2021 Champions League, with nine points ahead of Roma.
The defeat of the Roman team this Sunday at San Siro against Milan (2-0) gave Atalanta a great opportunity to escape and coach Giampiero Gasperini’s men did so pushed by two “ex” Udinese like Duván and Muriel.
The first, who played in Udine from 2015 to 2017, with 19 goals in 65 games, unlocked the scoreboard after nine minutes of play with a perfect right-footed shot from inside the box, before a counterattack by Kevin Lasagna hit the local draw the momentary 1-1 before the break.
It was on the restart when coach Giampiero Gasperini decided to make way for Muriel to replace Ukrainian Ruslan Malinovsky to form an all-Colombian lead, accompanied by Argentina’s Alejandro Gómez in three quarters.
The match was complicating and Muriel, who was in Udine at the beginning of his Italian career, in 2010, and in another stage between 2012 and 2015, solved it with two real goals.
He nailed a direct free kick from 18 meters in the squad at 71 and, eight minutes later, struck the Argentine goalkeeper Juan Musso with another powerful shot from the right foot from 20 meters.
Always Duván Zapata! Great goal for Atalanta in the match against Udinese
Lasagna’s double was of little use, which gave Udinese hope in 88, without being able to save points for his team.
Muriel has fifteen goals in this Serie A and nine of them arrived after leaving the bench. It is the perfect shock for Gasperini, who recognized how the Colombian’s rhythm is devastating in the final stages of the match.
“Muriel is a lethal player if he enters when you are winning. I sometimes put him when we were losing, instead if he enters when you are winning he kills you. You can say that he is a fixed ‘starter’ when you are in an advantageous situation,” he assured. the Italian coach before the stop forced by the coronavirus.
Thus, another great team performance, ennobled by the goals of Duván and Muriel allowed Atalanta to continue dreaming, in a season in which he was already able to eliminate Valencia in the knockout stages of the Champions League and in which he will compete in August in the Final at 8 of the European Cup.
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