Atalanta get the party started after sealing Champions League return

Atalanta volition discarded nary clip successful celebrating their Champions League qualification, truthful says Gian Piero Gasperini.

A 2-1 triumph implicit Roma connected Monday sealed Atalanta’s instrumentality to the Champions League.

Atalanta volition vie successful Europe’s elite nine contention for the 5th time.

“Let’s observe now, we can’t discarded time,” Gasperini told DAZN aft securing 3rd spot successful Serie A.

Atalanta, connected 71 points, are 7 points supra fourth-placed Juventus with 2 games remaining, which allows the Bergamo broadside to instrumentality a much relaxed attack to their last 2 fixtures against Genoa and lowly Parma.

“Now it’s a beauteous evening, we person 2 weeks to bask this season,” Gasperini said.

“In the Champions League we finished ninth retired of 36 teams, missing nonstop qualification [to the knockout rounds] by 1 point.

“For america it was formidable, determination volition beryllium clip and accidental to deliberation astir the rest.”

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Atalanta went connected an 11-game winning streak earlier this season, which took them apical of the standings successful December, but a winless tally of 4 matches dropped them to 3rd place, wherever they person remained ever since.

They past suffered 3 consecutive defeats starting with a location nonaccomplishment to Inter successful mid-March, further complicating their rubric contention bid.

But Gasperini stressed that Atalanta indispensable nevertheless beryllium arrogant of their achievement.

“I’m blessed due to the fact that it’s a fantastic accomplishment for Atalanta,” Gasperini added.

“We’ve been [competing] with Napoli and Inter Milan for a fewer weeks but I deliberation this was the highest achievement.

“Having near down truthful galore beardown teams that person made this title beauteous is simply a large result, it’s been a agelong play with immoderate fantastic peaks and moments of trouble from which we person recovered successful this last with the decisive sprint.”

While Atalanta person won 3 consecutive games against Roma successful Serie A for the archetypal clip since the play betwixt September 2019 and December 2020 (three), Claudio Ranieri’s Roma mislaid a league crippled for the archetypal clip successful 2025, ending a streak of 19 consecutive affirmative results successful the tourney (W14, D5).

Roma beryllium sixth, conscionable a constituent down Juve successful an enthralling contention for the last Champions League spot.