An entertaining game where the goalkeepers were the men of the match. Brozovic had an amazing first half but faded in the second - understandable considering he ran 16.9km in the Supercoppa.
However, this was at best, a C-grade Atalanta, missing half their squad through injury / COVID / AFCON. Meanwhile, we had a full strength squad available. When else are we going to play Atalanta in such a weakened state? Not exploiting this opportunity was a fucking waste.
Furthermore, it's yet another big game we've failed to win. I'm not expecting to win all of them obviously, but so far we've accumulated a somewhat underwhelming 13 points out of 24 in big games. Our wins were all against the smaller opponents among the big teams as well, i.e. Napoli, Roma, Lazio.
Meanwhile we failed to beat Atalanta twice, and drew against juve and Milan - these are IMO the three most difficult opponents and we're yet to beat any of them in the league. I don't care what anyone says, Lazio and Roma are a joke, and Napoli are fucking chokers who will lose their top 4 spot to juve. Don't @ me.
Dzeko was a fucking disgrace and I'm absolutely bewildered as to why it took Inzaghi over 80 minutes to replace him. The guy was actively sabotaging our chances to win yet we kept him on, letting him miss chance after chance, and ruin move after move. Disappointing management to persist with him and let this problem continue for so long to our detriment.
All in all, it's not a disaster that we drew, and I was entertained by the match.