Brendan Rodgers and his side are looking to bounce back from a Dortmund mauling but face a wily Italian
Italy’s top football writer has warned Celtic are in for another bruising Champions League beating against the ‘magician’ of a coach he rates as the best boss in Serie A .
“Maybe sometimes he asks too much from his players so what happens? Sometimes Atalanta show a strange movement like a parabola. They can be fantastic for two or three matches and then they are bad because the players need to recover and then start again. In this moment it’s not good for Celtic to meet Atalanta because they were fantastic in their last match.
Licari rates 66-year-old maverick Gasperini among his country’s managerial giants and even higher than the modern day elites like Italian national boss Luciano Spalletti, former Juve manager Max Allegri and Euros winner Roberto Mancini.
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