Atalanta are a good team, very aggressive and pretty dirty, move the ball quickly and have one gnome who often makes the difference. But at 2-0 even with a dive and all the VAR nonsense it's three points dropped.
Didn't like the way we dealt with the game in periods. We ended up playing their game because we didn't utilise the ball well. Dybala's had two poor games now but last season he was having 4 or more where he looked very similar to today. If it's a fitness issue then it's something that needs work. That penalty was a side issue, it was absolute crap and not like his other penalties. Glorious chance wasted though.
Their two goals could have ended totally differently but they deserved them tbh.
Talking about having penetrating wingers not playing isn't something I agree with for this one. Hateboer and Spinazzola are very mobile and nullify the thread to a large extent. Cuadrado and Douglas Costa look like falling to pieces under any kind of intense pressure on them, so I can see why Allegri went with Bernardeschi from the start (Mandzukic is obvious). Having said that Mandzukic looked tired/disinterested after his goal was disallowed. Berna blew out, obvious. Cuadrado LW and Costa what, AM, RW as subs? At that point we were trying things to confuse markers.
Look, there are issues at the moment because we don't have the midfield personnel to control the ball as we'd like. We've got a rookie and Matuidi, both very useful players in their own right but in this sort of game it's difficult. Then the match conditions went away from us after a brilliant start, yet we still balls up the chance to win the game. It happens. Atalanta played like madmen, their usual game but with 10% extra. It's Juve in town. We ended up with the same result as last season.
International break, yay. Two weeks of whining.