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Atalanta’s Ivan Juric experiment ended in failure. It has ended weeks after it began, with the Croatian facing his third sacking in a year. La Dea now embark on a new adventure under Raffaele Palladino, who has already proved himself at Monza and Fiorentina.
Curiously, there are similarities between Palladino and Gian Piero Gasperini. Those comparisons will naturally be made, considering the ex-Atalanta manager’s god-like reverence in Bergamo.
Both managers prefer a man-to-man approach to press. While that was also true for Juric, Atalanta’s underlying numbers were actually quite promising under him. What Palladino will offer is versatility in shape as unlike…