Betting tips for Atalanta vs Dortmund - 22.02.2018

One of the most open knockout rounds of this round of the Europa League is decided in Bergamo, where the Dea receives Borussia Dortmund after 3-2 of the Westfalenstadion. Atalanta played a great season 16-17, finishing in European positions behind the big Italian Calcio. Qualified to play the next round of the Europa League, after fighting with Lyon for being the leader of the group, the team of Gianpiero Gasperini has not had as good start of the season as could be expected in Calcio.

The Dea started the season with a home defeat against AS Roma (0-1), losing on their first trip, neither more nor less than San Paolo, a day later (3-1 for Napoli). After the break, the team defeated Sassuolo at home (2-1), tied at Verona against Chievo (1-1) and thrashed Crotone 5-1. The following day, the Atalanta took a meritorious tie in Florence (1-1), tying with the Juventus a day later (2-2). The defeat in the visit to Sampdoria (3-1) was the start of two wins at home (against Bologna and Hellas Verona), a streak cut with the defeat against Udinese (2-1), the draw at home against Spal (1-1) and the defeat against Inter in San Siro (2-0). The tight victory against Benevento (1-0), was the start of a streak of 2 wins and two draws, broken with the defeat at home against Cagliari (1-2) in the last game of 2017. Already in this 2018 , the team gave the bell by eliminating Napoli in San Paolo in the Italian Cup, and added three victories (1-2 against AS Roma, the one scored 0-3 in Sassuolo and the suffered 1-0 against Chievo Verona) and Two defeats, against the Neapolitans (0-1) and Juventus, in the Italian Cup (0-1). Last weekend, with many rotations, the team tied at home against Fiorentina.



The Borussia Dortmund recovered the second position in the Bundesliga, adding 40 points in 23 matches, to 19 points of Bayern Munich. The Rhenish club continues its reconstruction initiated last summer, selling Aubameyang to Arsenal and achieving the transfer of Michy Batshuayi from Chelsea. The Belgian has scored 6 goals in his first five teams with the Borusser team, who fired Peter Bosz who had signed last summer after his great stage at Ajax, and hired former FC Köln coach, the Austrian Peter Stoger.

The Ruhr team won their last four matches (2-3 in Cologne, 2-0 at home against Hamburg, 3-2 against Atalanta and 0-1 against M'Gladbach).

In Europe, the team was third in its Champions League group, behind Tottenham and Real Madrid. In the 1/16 finals of the Europa League he had one of the worst possible rivals, the Atalanta of Bergamo, which they defeated last Thursday by 3-2, going back 1-2 1-2 midway through the second half.

Atalanta vs Dortmund   Prediction: X/2 6.80

Atalanta vs Dortmund   Betting tip: Over 3.5 Goals @ 1.80

Atalanta vs Dortmund Score recommendations: 2-3 10.00