Football. ua presents the first match of the main stage of the Champions League, which will go through 2 rounds and start at 22:00.
The other round of the main stage of the Champions League will feature Donetsk Shakhtar and Bergamasco Atalanta.
Shakhtar - Atalanta Sereda, 2nd evening, 19:45, Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen. Match referee - Joao Pedro Pinheiro (Portugal) Live broadcast on MEGOGO media service.
The honorable champion of Ukraine, Donetsk Shakhtar, having started the season of the new Champions League not as we would have liked, the same team of Marino Pusic, apparently, took a different bet in the duel against the Italian Bologna in the first round i (0:0). But it happened as it happened, and this result of the “Girniki” was unlikely to be forgotten the very next day after the match against Renato Dall’Ara.
If Shakhtar defeated Kiev Obolon in the championship (4:0) in just a few days, it seemed that the Donetsk team had psychologically lost all tension and was ready to continue the pursuit of the shortest results.. However, not much time has passed, and Pusic’s team is playing in Rivny against Veres (1:1), having pushed the superniks to a goal, and then conceded the ball on the remaining goals. However, for this season such a scenario of “Girniks” is no longer considered even more important.
Favbet company appreciates that Atalanta is the favorite of the team. To help the team Gian Piero Gasperina give odds of 1. 74. Nothing was rated 3. 95, and Shakhtar’s success - 4. 95. It’s ok for us to learn about protective football, also TM 2. 5 for 2. 15 is our choice.
Shakhtar did not beat Bologna in the first round of the Champions League, and its attacking rival, Bergamasco's Atalanta, failed to achieve anything in the same arena just last weekend (1:1). And it’s unlikely that that match was overcome by the intense anger of trivalism over the victory, so it turns out that the victory over the team of Vincenzo Italiano was not so “obligatory”.
However, looking up to the “Goddess” at the start of a new campaign is definitely not good. So, Atalanta is the proud winner of the UEFA Cup, which won the first and only defeat of the Leverkusen Bayer for the entire last campaign (3:0). This season, the Gasperina team has already begun not so strongly. From the very beginning, she suffered from injuries to the Gravians, which we were talking about in the context of the match for the UEFA Super Cup against Real Madrid (0:2).
And then it seemed to go so naturally that the team had just two victories - over Lecce (4:0) and Fiorentina (3:2) - and two draws - against Bologna and London's Arsenal in the first round (. І everything. The outcome of the matches ended with the defeat of Atalanti, although they won points either against Inter (0:4), or against Como (2:3) or Torino (1:2). And I lost nothing in my pouch.
Doesn't remind anyone? So, it’s true, Bologna had approximately the same history before the match against Shakhtar, but they were still considered the favorite of the standings by everyone, besides the Ukrainian fans, which is understandable. And then everyone was faced with harsh reality and left disappointed 0:0 on the offended sides of the barricades.
At this point, Atalanta is still considered the favorite on the paper, but in reality there are two teams that clearly do not play on the same level as they could be expected to start the season. Shakhtar are less than a quarter in the UPL, and Atalanta is next to Bologna below the equator of the Serie A table. Ale in Liza champions play offended teams on equal minds.
But you still need to take a chance, because in Shakhtar there will be Arsenal (away), Young Boys (a), PSV (a), Bayern (a), Brest (a) and Borussia Dortmund (a), so glasses are needed here and. Atalanti also has a similar history - Celtic (a), Stuttgart (a), Young Boys (a), Real Madrid (a), Sturm (a) and Barcelona (a).
Oriented warehouses Shakhtar: Riznyk - Hemp, Bondar, Matvienko, Pedrinyo Azevedo - Bondarenko, Kriskiv, Sudakov - Zubkov, Traore, Yeginaldo.
Atalanta: Carnesecchi - Djimsiti, Kossunu, Kolasinac - Bellanova, De Ron, Ederson, Ruggeri - Lookman, De Ketelare - Retegi.
Not playing: Sikan (nіs) - Toloi (stegno), Gin (stegno), Breshianinі (stegno) Coaches seem to be Marino Pusic, head coach of Shakhtar:.
" I can say that this will be even more serious. The skin gras against Atalanti is not easy. “Ale we are here to play such matches with such opponents.”.
Gian Piero Gasperini, head coach of Atalanti:.
" Shakhtar has a tradition, they are in another basket of the Champions League, they have always received Brazilian Graves, strong young Viconavians, which you then know from great teams.
It's a different team than the one from which we met five fatefully, but we also changed. Prote navit proti Bologna stench played a miracle game. We must play with the utmost care, as in all other Champions League matches."
Current form Very close matches Previously, the teams played against each other twice - in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 20219/20, having signed one guest match.. Shakhtar won 2:1 against Bergamo, and Atalanta won 3:0 against Kharkov.
forecast 2:1.