AC Milan Kalah Tipis 1-0 dari Atalanta di San Siro
AC Milan 0-1 Atalanta: Denis heaps misery on Rossoneri
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Milan (B2B) - AC Milan dipermalukan Atalanta 0-1 dalam lanjutan Liga Italia Serie A pekan ke-19 di Stadion San Siro, Milan, Minggu.
Pada awal laga, AC Milan memiliki peluang mencetak gol melalui Bonaventura namun berhasil diselamatkan penjaga gawang Atalanta.
Pada menit ke-14 Jeremy Menez berkesempatan mencetak gol namun bola sepakannya melebar.
Gol kemenangan Atalanta dicetak oleh German Denis di menit ke-33 memanfaatkan umpan matang Maxi Moralez. Skor 0-1 bertahan hingga jeda babak pertama, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sports.
Pada babak kedua, Jeremy Menez yang kembali merepotkan barisan pertahanan Atalanta tidak berhasil mencetak gol.
Menit ke-70, Pazzini dan El Shaarawy memiliki peluang emas menyamakan kedudukan namun kembali diamankan Sportiello.
Hingga laga berakhir tidak ada gol tambahan yang tercipta sehingga AC Milan harus mengakui kekalahan 0-1 atas Atalanta di kandang sendiri.
Kekalahan itu membuat AC Milan tertahan di peringkat delapan klasemen Serie A dengan 26 poin dari 19 laga sementara Atalanta di posisi ke-15 dengan 20 poin dari 19 laga.
Milan - AC Milan's mid-season malaise continued at San Siro on Sunday as they fell to a 1-0 defeat against lowly Atalanta - German Denis again proving to be the hero at a venue he has fond memories of.
The Atalanta captain scored a 12-minute hat-trick at San Siro two seasons ago in a 4-3 win against Inter, but needed just the one goal to settle Sunday's affair and extend Milan's winless run in Serie A to four matches.
Having withstood what Milan threw at them early on, Atalanta took the lead when Denis - who also scored in a 2-1 win over Milan in May - made the most of slack defending with a deft finish 33 minutes in.
Inzaghi had spoken in the week of a need to win ugly occasionally if Milan were to put their European aspirations back on track, but stoic defending from the visitors put paid to that.
While Giampaolo Pazzini's header nestled on the roof of the net, Stefano Colantuono's side were able to frustrate their hosts and pick up only a second away league win of the campaign - and their first since September.
Denis gave Milan a scare early on when he fired across goal after the hosts lost possession in midfield and offered another warning when he rattled the crossbar after 17 minutes.
