Champions League, Atalanta to challenge Club Brugge in the playoffs: discovering the Belgians

Bergamo, 31 January 2025 - The dream of reaching the top 8 has vanished by just 1 point and so on for theAtalanta mockingly the door to the playoff lottery has opened. The Nerazzurri have in fact closed the championship phase at ninth place, fruit of 15 points (4 victories, 3 draws e 1 defeat), mind speaks of 11 lengths (3 victories, 2 draws e 3 losses) the loot collected byClub Brugge, 24esima and the last team to qualify for the play-offs Champions League and that now to advance in the tournament they will face the team of Gian Piero Gasperini, as confirmed by the Nyon ballot boxesThe first leg will be played on Belgian soil on11 or 12 February, while the second round at Gewiss Stadium is scheduled 18 or 19 February. The 21 February a new draw is instead expected which will also put the top 8 of the class back into the pot: whoever goes through to the next round will face one of Lille e Aston Villa.  

Club Brugge's statistics against Italian teams

  The adventure of the Club Brugge against the Italians she started off like a rocket, with 3 hits su 3 collected in the Uefa Cup of 1975-1976 season. But then the record changed, because since then the victories have only been 2 in the following 21 intersections, with a long dry streak 15 game: last but not least 0-0 gathered against the Juventus last 21st January. Overall, the last victory of a Belgian team against an Italian team in Champions League It dates back to theOctober 2003, when the very Club Brugge got the better of the Milan for 1-0.

Discovering Club Brugge

  Founded on 13th November 1891 including FC Bruges, the current Club Brugge Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging (o Bruges) holds the title in office of Jupiler Pro League, won for good 19 times higher (complete the list of winners) 11 Belgian Cups e 17 Belgian Super Cups)The strongest domestic rivalry is with theAnderlecht, which is no coincidence that it looks down on the Flemish as regards the consistency of the trophy cabinet. Not only the challenges on Belgian soil: the Club Brugge experienced its peak at international level in 1978, when the final of was reached Champions Cup. The prevailing one was the Liverpool, for a script that had already occurred in the 1975-1976 season, but in Uefa Cup. Today the black and blues, colours curiously almost similar to those of theAtalanta, are led on the bench by Nicky Hayen and on the field as captain Hans Vanaken, a constant threat in the three-quarter line: this season they are also shining Ardon Jashari, the 'singer' Ferran Jutglà and especially Christos Tzolis, which in the Flanders he found himself after some complicated years (for him so far in the season he has had a good record 12 goal e 8 assists). Not only more or less established youngsters: the experience quota is, in the true sense of the word, in the hands of the goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, one who the Champions League he has already won it with the jersey of Liverpool of 2018-2019 season.

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