{"id":123778,"date":"2026-09-19T17:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=123778"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:18:20","slug":"sarri-vuole-unatalanta-piu-propositiva-in-casa-della-juventus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/sarri-vuole-unatalanta-piu-propositiva-in-casa-della-juventus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarri wants a more proactive Atalanta side at Juventus's home ground."},"content":{"rendered":"

BERGAMO \u2013 Atalanta enters the match at Juventus with 38 shots for and 82 conceded in the first four matchdays. Maurizio Sarri addressed the issue at the start of his pre-match press conference, admitting that his team's defense was too deep and passive, and not always supported by good reading of the game. The positive aspect, however, is that the team maintained a high center of gravity. Their preparation is suffering from the aftermath of the World Cup, which ended in mid-July, the transfer campaign that concluded midway through the season, and now a long break looms, with two-thirds of the squad expected to respond to call-ups for their respective national teams. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c"With so few training sessions, all you have to do is go and play matches and learn from your mistakes to improve," Sarri observes, echoing Jurgen Klopp's observation that the fruits of a coach's labor aren't visible even after the first year, "let alone after a month." When asked directly, the Atalanta coach reiterates that he considers his Juventus season a closed chapter, with neither pride nor regrets. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ahead of the Turin match, Kossounou was sidelined with a strained left thigh flexor and will be evaluated in the coming days. Kristensen, who has trained regularly over the past ten days, is a candidate to replace him, as Sarri himself reported. He invokes the joystick to explain that coaches don't have everything under control and the situation depends on many factors. Juve's 3-4-2-1 formation will feature McKennie on the flank, but Sarri doesn't see this as a tactical challenge. "Juventus has recently adopted solutions that we've repeatedly encountered, namely 3+2 or 4-1 formations in attack," Sarri emphasizes, adding that matches are won or lost based on the situation of the teams taking to the pitch. His hope for the match against Juventus?<\/span>\u201cSeeing a team that's a little more proactive and expresses itself well with more playing time than the 25 minutes of the second half seen in Rome\u2019<\/span>. Gaetano and Kessie together? Possible, but nothing's decided. Sarri reports good feelings about Raspadori: "He was a big influence at Napoli, even as a substitute. Right now he seems like a player on the rise; let's hope this impression comes true." As for Scalvini, "he has a lot of room for improvement, but he needs to improve his reading of the lineup." And he reiterates what he said about Kolasinac, "a player who makes himself heard within a group of highly professional and hard-working players, but who needs to make the most of his professionalism." Sarri offers a key to understanding the fact that there hasn't yet been a 0-0 draw in the league.\u201c<\/span>Positive consequence of increasing effective playing time<\/span>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the press conference, it was time to remember Sandro Mazzola. <\/span>\u201c<\/span>A sticker friend of mine when I was a kid. When these characters disappear, a slice of your life's memories are gone.<\/span>\u201c.<\/span>A comment on the long break to make time for national team commitments. <\/span>\u201c<\/span>During the break, we'll work on our fitness; the schedule is a huge issue. There's so much to do. I think the national teams should be confined to the end of the season. That's a somewhat peculiar situation. Furthermore, there's the hypocrisy of the rosters; we'd need forty players to field.<\/span>\u201c. <\/span><\/p>\n

Juventus-Atalanta is open to fan card holders. A restriction Sarri defines as <\/span>a <\/span>collective punishment.<\/span> \u201c"I can't understand it, nor digest it. A person from Bergamo who hasn't committed anything in particular can't go to the game, it's unconstitutional. I stand with the fans.<\/span>\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n

The list of 23 players called up by Sarri includes the new addition of twenty-year-old defender Jacopo Mirra, who grew up in Roma's youth system and arrived at Atalanta on a free transfer this summer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BERGAMO – L\u2019Atalanta arriva alla sfida in casa della Juventus con un bilancio di 38 tiri fatti e 82 concessi 82 nelle prime quattro giornate. Maurizio Sarri affronta il tema in avvio di conferenza stampa della vigilia ammettendo che la fase difensiva della sua squadra \u00e8 stata troppo bassa e passiva e non sempre sostenuta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":123779,"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":[727,2575,1474,1586,1477,3480,1305,989,2826,1472,3463,1471,2278],"ppma_author":[813],"class_list":["post-123778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcio","tag-atalanta-bergamasca-calcio","tag-franck-kessie","tag-giacomo-raspadori","tag-gianluca-gaetano","tag-giorgio-scalvini","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-juventus-fc","tag-maurizio-sarri","tag-mckennie","tag-odilon-kossounou","tag-sandro-mazzola","tag-sead-kolasinac","tag-thomas-kristensen"],"relative_dates":{"created":"6 days ago","modified":"6 days 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\/123778","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=123778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123780,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123778\/revisions\/123780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123778"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=123778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}