Palladino: ‘Magical night for Atalanta, the turning point we needed’

Raffaele Palladino believes Atalanta had a ‘perfect and magical evening’ beating Roma 1-0 and sees this as ‘the turning point we needed’ this season.

The atmosphere in the New Balance Arena was inevitably emotional with the return of Gian Piero Gasperini, who was Palladino’s mentor and spent nine years in Bergamo as coach.

Giorgio Scalvini rose to meet a corner to open the scoring, while there was controversy when Gianluca Scamacca’s goal was disallowed for an offside in the build-up...