Luis Fernando Muriel, one of the attackers called up to the Colombia national team to face his last two qualifying matches, received recognition to smile on March 21. The Italian Football Association (Assocalciatori) chose him as one of the best Serie A footballers in the 2021/22 season.
Atalanta, where the native of Santo Tomás (Atlántico) has played for three years, announced that he was chosen in the ideal eleven of Italian football last season, and it is no wonder that he was the third scorer for Calcio, in addition to the top gunner in the Bergamo team.
In the ideal set Muriel is part of the offensive trident together with Romelu Lukaku, who left Chelsea after his good performance for Inter Milan, and Cristiano Ronaldo, who stepped aside at Juventus to return the team where he made a quality jump in the old continent, Manchester United.
Meanwhile, the midfield is composed of Nicolò Barella (Inter), Franck Kessie (Milan), Federico Chiesa (Juventus) and defender Achraf Hakimi (former PSG), Stefan de Vrij (Inter), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Theo Hernandez (Milan). In turn, the best goalkeeper was Gianluigi Donnarumma.
It is worth remembering that last season, Luis Fernando Muriel reported with 22 goals (and 9 assists) in 36 matches. In this season, although it has not been equally important, it adds 8 targets
This week Atalanta smiled again in a continental tournament. The team where Muriel plays advanced to the quarterfinals of the Europa League after a close fight with Bayer Leverkusen, in which the Colombian was one of the protagonists.
In the first leg, at Gewiss Stadium, the Italian club beat the German 3-2, with two goals from the Atlantic. And on March 17, at BayArena, he won again on the scoreboard, only because of the slightest difference: the one who scored was the Ivorian Jéremie Boga, who arrived in Bergamo in the winter transfer market; Muriel played until the 78th minute, when he was replaced by Matteo Pessina.
For Atalanta, qualifying for the Europa League round of 16 is like a balm, given that this campaign was eliminated in the group stage of the Champions League, and in Serie A fifth, so they are running out of quotas for next season's continental tournaments.
It is worth remembering that the Italian club will face Leipzig in the quarterfinals of the competition. In addition, Eintracht Frankfurt, where Rafael Santos Borré plays, will face Barcelona, and Rangers, by Alfredo Morelos, against Sporting Braga, according to the draw held by UEFA.
One of the hardest blows for Atalanta in 2022 was Duván Zapata's injury, for which he could only play one commitment, especially considering that in the first half of the campaign, he was the figure of nerazurri: he scored twelve goals (nine of them for Serie A and three for Champions League) and seven assists. To the happiness of the fans, he will be able to return to the court shortly.
Although on March 9 Gian Piero Gasperini, the coach of the Colombian, stated that he does not think “that he has much chance of recovering in a good time”, the FantaCalcio media reported that in mid-April, in the commitments against Hellas Verona or Venice, he could be taken into account in the team.
“The return of Zapata could probably take place in mid-April: the 16th Atalanta will play at home against Verona, the following week against Venice away. On the return of these two dates, the Colombian could return to the court and play the first minutes after the return of the injury,” he published.
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