'Hurt' Atalanta try to bounce back from Bayern battering at Serie A leaders Inter
Italy's top division has a representative in Europe's elite club competition in name only after Atalanta were left battered and bruised by Bayern, defeated 6-1 and leaving a once powerful football nation again licking its wounds.
The message from the Gazzetta Dello Sport was a brutal as Bayern's dishcloth treatment of Atalanta: "this is who we are" said the famous pink paper, lamenting how Italy consistently fails to produce players like "the alien" France forward Michael Olise.
For Atalanta, a traditionally tiny club...