Gattuso finally made his first comments on the controversial episode, which led to Napoli being handed a 3-0 defeat and having a point deducted by Serie A’s disciplinary committee, after the 4-1 home win over Atalanta on Saturday.
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The hosts are said to have handed the visitors a taste of their own medicine. Free-scoring Atalanta, last season’s top-scorers with 98 goals, had netted 13 goals in winning their first three games but had no answer to Napoli’s attacks in an extraordinary first half.
Luis Muriel, Alejandro Gomez, Mario Pasalic, Duvan Zapata and Sam Lammers shared the goals in another hugely-entertaining Atalanta performance.
The Genovese club said team captain Domenico Criscito, Davide Biraschi and Darian Males had joined the 14 teammates who had tested positive since September 27.
The 24-year-old scored five goals in 76 appearances for the Serie A side, who he joined from Genk in 2017.
Atalanta’s superb display looked like dumping PSG out of the competition but Marquinhos levelled from close range in the final minute before Frenchman Kylian Mbappe set up fellow substitute Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting for a stoppage-time winner.
Atalanta is the only Italian team left in the UEFA Champions League tournament and Intesa’s move comes ahead of Wednesday’s quarter-final game against Paris St-Germain FC.
The Champions League was suspended in March, with only four of the eight Round of 16 ties having been completed: Paris Saint-Germain defeated Borussia Dortmund 3-2 on aggregate; Atalanta overwhelmed Valencia 8-4; Atletico Madrid ended Liverpool’s reign as European champions with a 4-2 triumph; and RB Leipzig outclassed Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 overall
The result means they moved six points behind leaders Juventus and two ahead of Inter Milan and Lazio
The draw helped the defending champions to move closer to a ninth successive Serie A title
Atalanta ran out 4-1 winners over Spanish side Valencia in the first leg of their Champions League tie.
The Swedish midfielder, who has impressed on loan at Parma this season, will cost the Bianconeri around €35 million, which could rise to €44 million with add ons.
The result helped to hand the former European champions their opponents their joint-heaviest Serie A defeat.
This is in the wake of a miserable first half of the season.
Dinamo coach Nenad Bjelica, whose adventurous yet unfamiliar 4-3-3 formation turned out to be a masterstroke as it kept Atalanta on the back foot throughout, was delighted
Juventus coach, Massimiliano Allegri, agreed with the referee’s decision to send him off during his side’s shock 3-0 defeat to Atalanta.
Holders Juventus, bidding for a fifth consecutive league and cup double this season, crashed out of the Coppa Italia on Wednesday with a 3-0 quarter-final defeat by Atalanta.
Cristiano Ronaldo saved Juventus’ unbeaten Serie A record this season when he came off the bench to score the equaliser in a dramatic 2-2 draw at Atalanta on Wednesday.
The shootout followed three and a half hours of goalless football between the two sides
The Blues needed to avoid defeat and hope that Atalanta were unable to do the same at Apollon Limassol in the night’s other Group E fixture, but neither result went their way