29' - 35' |
The match settled into a pattern that felt almost cruel in its predictability—Atalanta circulating possession in wide arcs, Cremonese chasing shadows and rarely touching the ball, and the Gewiss Stadium creating noise that ebbed and flowed with every attacking move.
At thirty minutes Demien received from Tolói near halfway and immediately spotted Mæhle's overlapping run down the left flank, his positioning perfect as Sernicola struggled to track both the wing-back and cover the channel, and the forty-yard diagonal pass flew with perfect weight and curve, dropping onto Mæhle's left foot without the Danish player breaking stride.
Mæhle drove toward the byline and whipped a low cross toward the near post, but Bianchetti read it well and slid in to clear before Muriel could connect, the ball spinning out for a corner that Djimsiti headed wide.
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