Atalanta's recent Champions League campaign faced a setback as they lost 2-1 to Club Brugge, with Mario Pasalic equalizing briefly before a controversial stoppage-time penalty handed Brugge the win. Coach Gian Piero Gasperini emphasized the difficulty of overturning the deficit in the return leg, noting the need for a 2-0 victory. Despite Atalanta's strong European away record, Gasperini lamented the challenges posed by opponents and the use of VAR, expressing frustration with the nature of modern football and its interpretation of fouls.
It will now be a feat, you have to win 2-0 against a good team. We will have to expose ourselves a lot more, otherwise they will have half an hour of possession with the goalkeeper.
In the end, we lost. You can't always be at your best and there are also the opponents, but in the second half the sensational opportunities were ours.
It's a tragedy that we are infecting football [like that]. Listening to footballers and coaches, they all have a completely different idea of fouls.
Nilsson struck the Champions League's first 90th-minute winning penalty scored by a substitute since Eric Choupo-Moting struck for Schalke against Sporting CP in October 2014.
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