Palladino: ‘Atalanta defeat inexplicable, first half was perfect’

Raffaele Palladino finds it ‘difficult to explain’ how Atalanta went from dominating Athletic Club to losing 3-2 in the Champions League. ‘The first half was perfect, we had a blackout.’

It was a bizarre night in Bergamo, because La Dea had won four of their last five Champions League games, and were leading 1-0 at half-time tonight with a dominant performance and Gianluca Scamacca header.

At this stage, they were third in the big table, but they crumbled in the second half, conceding...