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May 23, 2013
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:agree: Dortmund crashed out of the group stage before they reached the CL final the following year. Liverpool crashed out in the group stage in 2014-15 and then reached 3 European finals in 4 years. Same case with Spurs. Of course Atalanta will go nowhere near the CL/EL final, but they could make it out of the group next time.
Perfectly put. Good memory on I had forgotten about their poor CL campaign, finished bottom to a poor Marsielle and Olympiacos.

Even Man City had serious growing pains in the CL, finishing third in their first season (2011-12) and crashing out of Europe all together in their second season!
 

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Lion

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Jan 24, 2007
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dont kid yourself. they wont make it to CL again. Inter, napoli and roma will finish ahead. also comparing atalanta to dortmund and and liverprool is madness. dortmund and liverpool are presitigous teams that strive to be competitve. them having bad seasons is not indicative of their quality or mentality overall.

all these small italian teams always e,embarrassing and dragging serie a coefficients down.

napoli last year
atalanta this year
udinese in 2012
roma except last 2 seasons
sampdoria in 2010

even juve under conte in 2013

jsut give the spot to milan. they will always do better in cl
 

campionesidd

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Mar 16, 2013
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dont kid yourself. they wont make it to CL again. Inter, napoli and roma will finish ahead. also comparing atalanta to dortmund and and liverprool is madness. dortmund and liverpool are presitigous teams that strive to be competitve. them having bad seasons is not indicative of their quality or mentality overall.

all these small italian teams always e,embarrassing and dragging serie a coefficients down.

napoli last year
atalanta this year
udinese in 2012
roma except last 2 seasons
sampdoria in 2010

even juve under conte in 2013

jsut give the spot to milan. they will always do better in cl
Milan :rofl:
They couldn’t even make it out of the Europa group stage. They are done as a club. Expect to see them in Serie D as Lombardia Calcio 1899 in a couple of years.
 
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Atalanta are terribly naive and lack any sort of compactness in defense. Their whole defensive game is based on man marking which leaves huge spaces on the pitch. It only gets worse once their players tire out and start losing their 1-on-1.
 

JuveJay

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Gasperini has been the same his whole career. Largely inflexible and so his team will take a battering now and then, and batter a few teams.

Of course Guardiola thinks he's great, because he knows he's playing a team 1/10 of his budget with a similar style - easy win. In fact I don't think City could have picked a better group than Atalanta, Shakthtar and any random minnow.
 
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