Series A

EL | Atalanta 2-0 Rakow: De Ketelaere keeps cool

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1 year ago

4:35 am

Charles De Ketelaere and Ederson headers proved sufficient for Atalanta to get the higher of Polish champions Rakow within the Europa League.

La Dea might be with out Gianluca Scamacca for a month after additionally dropping El Bilal Toure till 2024, so Charles De Ketelaere supported Ademola Lookman and Luis Muriel. Champions of Poland Rakow missed captain Zoran Arsenic together with Fran Tudor, Stratos Svarnas and Adrian Gryszkiewicz.

Muriel examined the goalkeeper on the close to put up after a Lookman by means of ball, then Lookman flicked a wayward Teun Koopmeiners effort simply huge when he maybe ought to’ve left it for Giorgio Scalvini behind him.

Lookman accomplished a give-and-go with De Ketelaere and his bending end was going into the far prime nook if not for a flying fingertip save.

Nonetheless, after a protracted interval of stress did not discover a breakthrough, Rakow obtained a foothold within the recreation and Milan Rundic made a large number of the free header on the again put up from Deian Sorescu’s cross.

De Ketelaere stung the goalkeeper’s gloves from the sting of the world, whereas Muriel nodded a Davide Zappacosta cross over from shut vary.

Muriel flashed a harmful ball throughout the face of objective, however Lookman sliding in on the again put up couldn’t steer it on course.

Straight after the restart, the stress paid off with Zappacosta’s cross discovering De Ketelaere for a glancing header on the close to stick.

Lookman was despatched by means of by Muriel for a low drive palmed off beam by Vladan Kovacevic, then Teun Koopmeiners blasted over from a tough angle after a give-and-go with the Colombian.

Ederson couldn’t hold his end down, however did higher quickly after with a header into the far prime nook on the floated Matteo Ruggeri cross from the left.

Atalanta thought that they had a 3rd from a nook, because the one-handed save on Berat Djimsiti’s header got here to De Ketelaere, who in flip was denied by an Adnan Kovacevic goal-line clearance.

Moments later, Rakow threatened to get again into it when Ben Lederman sprung the offside lure solely to attract a determined save from Juan Musso.

De Ketelaere examined Kovacevic once more from shut vary and Ruggeri ballooned over.

Elsewhere within the group, Sporting CP got here again from a objective all the way down to win 2-1 away to Sturm Graz.

Atalanta 2-0 Rakow

De Ketelaere 49 (A), Ederson 66 (A)