Atalanta video and SUFC similarities

[Tony Currie]

Great video on Atalanta and how they are taking the Italian League by storm - many similarities with us.

• No superstars - players who have been journey men at other clubs
• One Centre back left to defend while they all go forward
• Go forward in packs
• Go a goal down don't flinch
• No one has a bad word to say about the club
• All happy and pulling in same direction

'They made the opposition cry' - how Atalanta took Europe by storm

As they prepare to take on Liverpool in the Champions League, BBC Sport finds out how Atalanta have become a force in Italy and on the continent.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[S40BLADE]

I wish we scored as many goals as them...

 

[mattbianco1]

Great video on Atalanta and how they are taking the Italian League by storm - many similarities with us.

• No superstars - players who have been journey men at other clubs
• One Centre back left to defend while they all go forward
• Go forward in packs
• Go a goal down don't flinch
• No one has a bad word to say about the club
• All happy and pulling in same direction

'They made the opposition cry' - how Atalanta took Europe by storm

As they prepare to take on Liverpool in the Champions League, BBC Sport finds out how Atalanta have become a force in Italy and on the continent.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sheffsteel was ahead of the game pretty much exactly 1 year ago.

There IS another team that use the overlapping centre back system

Was listening to Talksport very late last night. They had a Scottish journalist on taking about “the prospects of the 3 promoted teams”. When discussing us he revealed that there is another team in Europe that play an almost identical style to us using overlapping centre backs. United- said...

www.s24su.com

 

[Johnnyblade]

I wonder if Wilder is studying how they play compared to us and how they attack possibly slightly different.
To be the highest goalscorers we could learn a lot from them

 

[Sheffsteel]

Talksport have a weekly European Football slot every Sunday night.
When ever they discuss Italian football the presenters (Euro football experts) always praise Atalanta.

In fact one of them said last week “Juventus have won the league but the powers in Turin aren’t impressed.
The nation see Atalanta as being the best team in Italian football....a few week ago Atalanta played away at Juventus.
Atlanta were leading in the match twice and were dominating Juventus in their own stadium. The game ended 2-2 but Juve were really lucky.
Ronaldo scored 2 penalties,...the equaliser being deep into injury them. He said that result effectively ended Atlanta’s title challenge,
Apparently Juventus have been ordinary for many matches...but they either rely on Ronaldo to score and know how to manage out games.
The presenter said he’s pretty certain even though Juve have won the league...Sari is likely to be sacked because their style is so poor.

He also said don’t rule out Atlanta against Paris St Germain saying Atalanta won’t show PSG any respect and will go after them.
He still expects PSG to win the tie but said if PSG under estimate Atalanta then they will be in trouble.

 

[Bladesman]

I wonder if Wilder is studying how they play compared to us and how they attack possibly slightly different.
To be the highest goalscorers we could learn a lot from them

Wilder tries to watch everyone or as much football as he possibly can. That is what he has said in previous interviews.

So there is a fair chance he has seen Atalanta play a few times.

 

[beatific blade]

The most astonishing thing about Atalanta is that they are in the QF of the Champions League and one of the finest footballing sides in Europe, with a wage bill equivalent to a bottom 6/7 championship side.

Their wage bill is smaller than Reading's and dwarfed by that of the sleeping giant superclub from inner oughtibridge

 

[Gimli]

They are the highly evolved form of us.

 

[TimofeeVee]

Gooo on Atalanta!! Don't want Citeh winning the trophy!!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Can we now stop with the similarities. No way would we have conceded 2 lame goals in the last 90 seconds. If they had Egan/JOC/Bash they would have progressed.

 

[Seth Rollins]

I wonder if Wilder is studying how they play compared to us and how they attack possibly slightly different.
To be the highest goalscorers we could learn a lot from them

Like getting 2 decent strikers then??

 

[beatific blade]

They play mainly 1 up top with Zapata as a "good Benteke" type... with two 10s behind linking the width each side.

We could do this with the right personnel

 

[Brian Blessed]

98 league goals - and none of them scored by Italians apart from own goals. No Italian has scored for them since Janiary 2019. Strange stat.