Although the team from Bergamo, the Italian town of around 120,000, had never qualified for the Champions League before, they were moments away from humbling the financial powerhouse of PSG, backed by the oil wealth of the club's Qatari owners.
There was no second leg, no away goals calculation, nothing other than the finality of defeat, of history being rewritten in a matter of seconds. Whatever memories Atalanta fans have of this defeat, they won't include celebrating their goal in the stands or singing to console their heroes collapsed on the turf at the final whistle.
“It is a strong emotion. I’ve been watching Atalanta for 40 years and I couldn’t miss this game, even if you can’t enter the stadium," Manuel Colombo, bedecked in a black and blue striped facemask, told Reuters.But throughout the long build-up to this game, since the Champions League was suspended in March, the particularly strong impact of the novel coronavirus on Bergamo has been present in the thoughts of those involved with the club.
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