Ac Milan 1-1 Atalanta (First Half)
AC Milan vs Atalanta match turned out to be very competitive. Both team players are performing very well. Although Milan dominated the match, the match was tied at 1-1 at the end of the first half.
Milan players had 72% of the ball possession in the first half. But they don't attack too much. Milan players managed to make a total of 7 shots in the first half. One of these was on target. On the other hand, Atalanta's players had only 28% of the ball possession, but managed to make 7 shots, three of which were on target. The second half is likely to be more challenging. Milan will definitely not want to lose their home match.
Atalanta position the game very well from the beginning but they made little mistakes that gave AC Milan the opportunity to achieved the first goal, and Atalanta equalized the goal before the end of the first half that caused a lot of challenges in the mind of AC Milan fans. AC Milan thought they can use home advantage to win the match easily but Atalanta turned the match, to make it difficult for AC Milan strikers not to add another goal than to made their defensive more stronger which AC Milan strikers feel it from the match. AC Milan try to use the remaining 30 minutes to score another goal, but it was too late for them because Atalanta know their plan from the beginning of the match that made them to use their opportunity on time to equalized the goal to draw the match 1-1 to share points with AC Milan, and AC Milan still remain in third position in the Italian league competition table.
The draw between the two clubs was planned by both clubs as a second option if they had difficulty winning.
I say this because both clubs actually both want to get 3 points to secure their respective positions, but Milan and Atalanta also don't want to lose points because under Milan there is Bologna who is waiting for Milan to lose again and under Atalanta there is Roma who are also waiting for Atalanta. make a mistake so that both clubs have the option of dividing the score to end in a draw to get one point.
Talking about the biggest opportunity, it actually lies with Milan who have provided strong attacks several times but Atalanta's defenders will not give up easily so they succeeded in preventing Milan from scoring again.
Maybe this was the reason I said at the time that it was possible for the two clubs to draw because Milan didn't want to make another mistake that could result in them losing their position if they continued to lose, of course Bologna would be happy to easily shift Milan's position.
Milan also almost conceded but unfortunately Atalanta when they were in front of the goal, Milan lacked focus so the kick couldn't be on target.
As we get closer to the end of the season, I think Milan and the clubs below will continue to compete competitively to maintain their position in 3rd place.