55 Live, February 20, 4:00 am, the Champions League round of 16 knockout first round, one of the Champions League newcomers Atlanta hosted Valencia. Atlanta broke the deadlock shortly after the first half, and then time basically took over the game, with Hartbauer's second, Ilicic and Froyle's goals, Atlanta finally home 4-1 victory over Valencia. This season was Atlanta's first ever appearance in the Champions League, and for the first time in their history, they were not favored to advance to the knockout stages of the competition, and now they have a big lead at home to take the initiative to advance again.
Atlanta vs Valencia live streaming overview.
Atlanta had a free kick opportunity in front of the net just five minutes into the match, and captain Alejandro Gomez chose to shoot over the crossbar from the free kick. In the 8th minute, Pasalic received a pass from a teammate in the penalty area and put a shot that was parried by Valencia goalkeeper Domenech. In the 16th minute, Gomez's cross from the left side of the box to Hartbauer's parry in front of the goal gave Atlanta a 1-0 lead over Valencia. Valencia began to seek a comeback, and in the 29th minute they sent a fast free kick, and youngster Ferran Torres hit the outside edge of the post from a small angle and bounced out. In the 34th minute, Valencia ripped through Atlanta's defense on the left, and Gerdes took a pass from a teammate and fired a shot from the left side of the box from a small angle that went just wide. In the 42nd minute, Atlanta launched an attack from the left side of the box, Pasalic rubbed the left side of the box to Ilicic, who got rid of the defense of two Valencia players, right-footed shot straight to the corner of the Atlanta 2-0 lead!
The second half, Atlanta did not stop the rhythm of the attack, the 52nd minute, Froyle in front of the right side of the penalty area with the ball inside the cut foot shot, Atlanta continued to expand the score, the 62nd minute, Hart Bauer in the right road with the ball wildly running to the penalty area foot shot to complete the second degree, Atlanta 4-0 far ahead of Valencia. 64 minutes to Cheryshev to strengthen the attack, the change of people! Cheryshev scored two minutes later. In the 76th minute, Soler got the ball in front of the penalty area and attempted a shot that went wide. At the end of the match, Valencia lost 1-4 away to Atlanta, after this loss Valencia suffered 4 matches without a win in all competitions.
Statistics, Valencia this game despite 18 shots on goal, than the opponent several times, but only 4 shots on goal, while the number of fouls 9 times lower than Atlanta's 19 times. And Atlanta as a dark horse team in Serie A, a change of Serie A team their philosophy is to attack, so far this season's Champions League Atlanta has 10 (Muriel, Alejandro Gomez, Castagnet, Pasalic, Goossens, Hart Bauer, Ilicic, Froyle, Malinovsky and Duane Zapata) successively scored a goal, can be described as the firepower, which is the participation of all the teams to score goals team with the most players.
Atlanta (3-4-1-2): 95 Golini; 2 Toroi, 3 Caldara (75', 91 Zapata), 6 Palomino; 33 Hattebauer, 15 Delonne, 11 Froyle, 8 Goossens; 88 Pasalic; 72 Ilicic, 10 A. Gomez
Valencia (4-4-2): 1 Domenech; 18 Vos, 4 Mangala, 12 Diakabi, 14 Gaya; 20 Ferran Torres, 10 Parejo, 6 Kondogbia, 8 Soler; 7 Guedes (64', 11 Cheryshev), 22 Maxi Gomez (73', 9 Gameiro)
