{"id":122081,"date":"2026-08-12T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=122081"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:20:21","slug":"atalanta-playoff-di-conference-con-hapoel-tel-aviv-il-difensore-kristensen-a-bergamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/atalanta-playoff-di-conference-con-hapoel-tel-aviv-il-difensore-kristensen-a-bergamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Atalanta faces Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Conference playoffs, with defender Kristensen in Bergamo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">BERGAMO \u2013 The first European fixture of the 2026\/27 season will be the UEFA Europa Conference League playoff match between Hapoel Tel-Aviv and Atalanta. The Israeli side prevailed over GKS Katowice in the two-legged tie. After a 2-0 win in the first leg on August 6 at the DVTK Stadium in Miskolc, Hungary, Hapoel Tel-Aviv limited the damage, losing 2-1 in the return leg in Poland.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>and obtaining the qualification pass. Maurizio Sarri&#039;s team, who will test their preparation on the eve of August 15th at the New Balance Arena in the Bortolotti Trophy with<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hapoel Tel-Aviv will play the first leg against Hapoel Tel-Aviv in Bergamo on Thursday, August 20th at 8:30 PM, before travelling to the DVTK Stadium in Miskolc, Hungary, on Thursday, August 27th, where kick-off is set for 8 PM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, on the evening of Wednesday, August 12, defender Thomas Kristensen, acquired from Udinese, where he played for the last three seasons, arrived at the Bortolotti Sports Center in Zingonia. After passing a medical, he is expected to sign a five-year contract with Atalanta, who acquired him outright. The deal is expected to be finalized for \u20ac22 million plus \u20ac3 million in bonuses and a 10% on a future resale, according to Gianluca Di Marzio. Kristensen arrives to replace Berat Djimsiti in defense, who has moved to the Saudi Arabian league. Atalanta is also working on strengthening their attack. Following Daniel Maldini&#039;s sale to Cagliari, Sarri will be forced to for a couple of months without Kamaldeen Sulemana, who was injured during the Schalke 04-Atalanta test match. Diagnostic tests revealed a second-degree medial collateral ligament injury of the left knee.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERGAMO &#8211; Il primo atto delle coppe europee nella stagione 2026\/27 sar\u00e0 la sfida tra l&#8217;Hapoel Tel-Aviv e l\u2019Atalanta per i playoff di UEFA Europa Conference League. La squadra israeliana ha avuto la meglio sul GKS Katowice nel doppio confronto. Dopo il 2-0 maturato all&#8217;andata lo scorso 6 agosto al DVTK Stadium di Miskolc in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":122082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[727,1475,1726,2279,1468,989,1564,2278,1695],"ppma_author":[813],"class_list":["post-122081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcio","tag-atalanta-bergamasca-calcio","tag-berat-djimsiti","tag-daniel-maldini","tag-hapoel-tel-aviv","tag-kamaldeen-sulemana","tag-maurizio-sarri","tag-new-balance-arena","tag-thomas-kristensen","tag-uefa-conference-league"],"relative_dates":{"created":"2 months ago","modified":"2 months ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":813,"user_id":13,"is_guest":0,"slug":"fedesorrentino","display_name":"Federica Sorrentino","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-alle-09.16.04.png","url2x":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-30-alle-09.16.04.png"},"first_name":"Federica","last_name":"Sorrentino","user_url":"","author_category":"0","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122083,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122081\/revisions\/122083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122081"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=122081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}