Atalanta, Percassi:”I cried tears of joy. Zapata will return in January”

For the second season in a row, Atalanta are exceeding expectations. The Bergamaschi recent,y clinched a historic qualification to the round of sixteen in the Champions League, the club's owner Antonio Percassi described how he experienced the match against Shakhtar during an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport:"I decided that I wanted to be where I could be alone. I wanted to be able to get desperate or cry tears of joy, and I did. In May we made history and we told ourselves: now we go to university to learns. After the first matches no one gave us a chance, then in the last three we played great football. The players didn't settle and in the third match we got our university degree"

Atalanta will also receive a significant boost when Duvan Zapata returns:"He'll be back when he feels well, we aren't in a rush- we are looking at beginning of January. Transfer market? We wait for instructions from Gasperini, we already had some conversations. The team is strong, but if we can improve it, we won't hold back"