Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 10:59 PM• Daniel Cabot Kerkdijk • Last update: 23:08

Atalanta still has the winter in the Champions League in their own hands. The team of trainer Gian Piero Gasperini seemed on its way to a 1-2 victory over Young Boys on Tuesday evening, but due to a crazy final phase, the game in Group F ended in 3-3. Atalanta must win at home in two weeks from Villarreal, which has one point more and must not lose in Bergamo: seven to six. Winter in the Europa League is at stake for Young Boys in the away game against Manchester United.

Remo Freuler got the ball at the right time in the tenth minute on the left side of the box and he served Duvan Zapata, who shot the ball into the right corner behind goalkeeper Guillaume Faivre: 0-1. Although Atalanta was the better team in the first half hour, Young Boys came into the game better in the last fifteen minutes before half-time and the equalizer came from a corner. Michel Aebischer put the ball in from the left towards the near post, where Jordan Siebatcheu headed the ball in from the bottom of the crossbar: 1-1.

what is all that?? Luis Muriel demands the ball and with his first contact he shoots Atalanta at 3-3 ??#ZiggoSport #UCL #YBATA pic.twitter.com/T7IQda9Lxx

— Ziggo Sport Football (@ZS_Voetbal) Nov 23, 2021

Atalanta took the lead again five minutes after the interruption. After an attack by Gasperini’s team, the ball landed on the edge of the penalty area at the feet of José Luis Palomino, who then wonderfully placed the ball in the far corner behind Faivre: 1-2. That also seemed to be the final score, but a striking effort by Vincent Sierro with the left meant the 2-2 in minute eighty. A few minutes later, goalkeeper Juan Musso had nothing to say against a superb shot by Silvan Hefti in the left corner and the Swiss stadium was on fire: 3-2.

A changed free kick by Luis Muriel meant a point for Atalanta three minutes before the end, where Teun Koopmeiners took the place of Mario Pasalic after 71 minutes and Marten de Roon was on the field for ninety minutes. Young Boys can no longer equalize with Villarreal due to the mutual result and only benefit from a victory over Manchester United and a defeat of Atalanta to continue in the Europa League.