Atalanta has a “headache”: in 2025 they will concede all their goals in the air
Coach Gian Piero Gasperini's regret: "Too many goals from set pieces, so we're losing precious points"

Gian Piero Gasperini
Bergamo – The day after theelimination from the Italian Cup, after the 0-1 home defeat against Bologna, theAtalanta he regrets yet another goal conceded from a dead ball situation.
A week ago in Barcelona Araujo's header from a corner, on Saturday against Torino Maripan's goal, again from a header from a free kick, and last night a carbon copy goal, again from a free kick, still in the head, by the red and blue Castro. In January against Napoli another decisive header goal, by Lukaku, not from a set piece, but from a cross, against Juventus from a free kick Kalulu's header hit the post and then bounced off the line, with a goal avoided by millimetres, while against Inter in Arabia Dumfries' goal came from a corner.
"Now we've been conceded from set pieces for three games in a row. We need to improve, but football can be like this: we need to look at these things again, we always want to do more", he highlighted yesterday evening central defender Isak Hien, also responsible for the lack of coverage on Castro in the action of the goal.
The same technician Gian Piero Gasperini highlights a tactical problem on inactive shoulders: “That's how it is, we are losers on inactive balls, we took, in Turin, against Barcelona, now against Bologna. This is a situation that we are struggling to remedy, we have been carrying it around since the beginning of the year. These are also situations in which you lose points. We need to improve our standard in the aerial game”.
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