Three goals in six minutes: Atalanta's derby opera
Atalanta beat AC Milan 2-1 in Serie A, Marco Bianchi the hero of a breathless first half.
Who could have written a first act like this? At the Gewiss Stadium, destiny packed three goals into six minutes and gave Atalanta a 2-1 victory over AC Milan that the south will sing about for weeks.
Emanuele Galassi struck on 28 minutes, and the Curva rose as one. Two minutes later Diego Maurício silenced them, and for a heartbeat the old Rossoneri certainty returned. But on 34 minutes Marco Bianchi, the evening's finest voice, finished what he had begun, and Milan never found the note again. Bianchi's goal and assist earned him the ovation; Przemysław Dziemidowicz's tireless running set the tempo. Milan pressed late, struck the woodwork, but the night belonged to Bergamo. A betrayal of Milan's recent grip on this fixture, and no mistake.