Atalanta are in the shocking position of trailing 1-0 at home at the break to Midtjylland, putting their Champions League progress in doubt.
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La Dea were feeling more confident after a 2-0 win at Anfield, meaning qualification for the Final 16 will go down to their trip to Ajax. Pierluigi Gollini, Mario Pasalic and Mattia Caldara were injured, while Aleksei Miranchuk and Ruslan Malinovskyi had COVID-19.
Atalanta wasted some glorious early opportunities, Duvan Zapata firing over from close range and Hans Hateboer blasting straight at the goalkeeper after some good build-up play.
They were made to pay for those errors, as moments later Midtjylland took the lead when Sory Kaba knocked down the ball with his back to goal and Alexander Scholz hit it low first time from the edge of the area to fly past Marco Sportiello.
Matteo Pessina’s angled drive squirmed under the defender’s legs only to flash just wide, but too often Atalanta’s complex build-up was finished meekly.
Mabil hit a scorcher off target from distance, but Duvan Zapata again failed to really trouble the goalkeeper.
Atalanta 0-1 Midtjylland (Half-Time)
Scholz 13 (M)
Atalanta: Sportiello; Palomino, Romero, Djimsiti; Hateboer, Freuler, Pessina, Gosens; Gomez; Muriel, Duvan Zapata
Midtjylland: J Hansen; J Andersson, James, Scholz, Paulinho; Høegh; Dreyer, Anderson, Onyeka, Mabil; Kaba
Ref: Sidiropoulos (GRE)