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Atalanta can certainly be satisfied with their European performance this season, and they also played in the group stage of Europa League and they have managed to win placement in the knockout stage in the competition of very good rivals, Everton and Lyon. Borussia has completely failed in the group stage of the Champions League and in the end they were fearing for the third place, which led them to Europa League. Borussia is expectedly better ranked in the championship, and they are third unlike Atalanta, which is eighth in Serie A.

Borussia Dortmund

It seems that Borussia is in a better form lately and are now in a series of five games without defeat, meaning that they did not lose any matches in this calendar year, with the proviso that they started the series with three draws, while they in the last two duels recorded two wins. Looking only at the championship, they are undefeated in the previous seven rounds, or rather since the beginning of December when they were surprised by Werder in Dortmund. After that, they suffered another home defeat in the Cup by Bayern, so it became clear that they will not managed to defend the title.

They are hoping for the title in Europa League, although they completely failed in the Champions League. It turned out that bringing striker Batshuayi was a hit, as this player was the most deserving for the victory in Cologne with his two goals, while he also scored one goal in 2-0 victory over HSV. They still have major problems with players’ injuries, but at least Reus has finally recovered.

Probable lineups Borussia Dortmund: Burki – Piszczek, Sokratis, Toprak, Toljan – Dahoid, Weigl, Kagawa, Reus – Batshuayi, Pulisic

Atalanta Bergamo

Atalanta has in the group stage of Europa League showed its best edition and they have managed to stay undefeated in six games played, with four wins and two draws, so they had no problems to qualify for the sixteen finals. They also reached the semi-finals in the national Cup, but then they met with Juventus and were eliminated, though they were defeated only with 1-0. They are very modest in the championship and in the eighth place, which means that they are about to face a fight for entering on the European scene.

They are playing much better lately as guests and since the end of November they have not lost, while they lost the semi-finals of the Cup at home, and two championship matches. They now have a series of three matches without defeat in Serie A and two rounds ago they finally celebrated at home by overcoming Verona with 1-0, while they in the last round played 1.1 with Crotone. Palomino and Cornelius have refreshed the team in those matches, and Palomino has scored a goal for a draw. Coach Gasperini wil now have all players available.

Probable lineups Atalanta Bergamo: Berisha – Toloi, Palomino, Masiello – Castagne, Cristante, de Roon, Freuler, Spinazzola – Ilicic, Petagna

Verdict:

Borussia is not in the best form, but it seems they are doing much better lately, however, Atalanta is very unpleasant when playing away and they have not been defeated for a long time, so we believe in their good resistance to Dortmund and achieving a goal in this match.

Pick:  both teams to score 1.66 - 66/100 @1XBet