In front of Thursday's first leg in Germany, the Bundesliga club appreciated probably their best win of the time, while their guests kept on staggering in Serie A - as an unmistakable difference to great European form.Since completing third in Champions League Group A last harvest time, behind heavyweight competitors Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, much has changed at RB Leipzig, who have partaken in an upswing in fortunes under new mentor Domenico Tedesco.
The previous Schalke manager took a tough situation towards the last part of that eventually ineffective mission in Europe's first class rivalry, and Die Roten Bullen have been on a vertical direction since.
Besides the fact that they crept up have the Bundesliga standings to possess fourth spot - with a three-guide cushion toward fifth-set Freiburg - the Saxony side conquered Real Sociedad in the Europa League end of the season games back in February, when a 3-1 away win in San Sebastian helped seal a 5-3 total triumph.
Having then gotten a bye against precluded Russian club Spartak Moscow in the last 16, Leipzig's second investment in the knockout stage currently go on into the last eight.
As rookies to the mainland stage, they missed out in their one past quarter-last debut - to Marseille in 2018 - prior to leaving in the semi-finals of the Champions League two years after the fact, because of PSG.
All the more as of late, Leipzig have won only one of their last five European home matches - a dead elastic against Manchester City recently - and have been held to progressive attracts the Bundesliga at Red Bull Arena, against Freiburg and Eintracht Frankfurt.
In front of Atalanta's appearance on Thursday, Tedesco and co will expect to repeat their last two away shows all things being equal: a 6-1 annihilation of absolute bottom Greuther Furth, trailed by Saturday's clinical 4-1 success over Borussia Dortmund.Despite end from the Champions League bunch stage before the end of last year, Atalanta have kept on dazzling in mainland football in 2022; putting their homegrown troubles aside under the brilliant lights of midweek evenings.
A new decline in Serie A sees Gian Piero Gasperini's side confronting an all-powerful piece to tie down their re-visitation of the Champions League through a best four completion, and they sit seventh in the standings following a 3-1 loss at Napoli on Sunday - presently eight focuses uncontrolled of fourth-put Juventus, with a game still close by.
The Bergamaschi return to mainland activity with everything still to play for, however, after they dismantled Greek heroes Olympiacos 5-1 on total in February's season finisher round, and afterward posted their subsequent European away win in succession when Jeremie Boga struck a late victor in Leverkusen last month to get a quarter-last spot.
To be sure, the winger's was the eleventh objective struck by Atalanta in their five away games in Europe this season, and a 4-2 accomplishment north of two legs against one of Germany's top groups features how familiar they have been in the last third while taking on their mainland partners.
Objectives have evaporated in Serie A since top scorer Duvan Zapata's vanishing half a month prior, with the Colombian striker's nonattendance through injury representing an issue for Gasperini to determine - his side coming up short on an undeniable point of convergence for all their complicated development.
As they plan for the club's first appearance in the Europa League last eight - their main past association in the opposition's knockout stage having been quickly finished by Dortmund four years prior - Atalanta's last outcome in an European quarter-last returned against Sporting in the 1987-88 European Cup Winners' Cup.
From that point forward, routs at a similar stage against individual Lombardy club Inter in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup and to PSG two seasons back have stopped La Dea's mission for a first mainland crown, yet they are currently only two ties from Seville, where the last will be held in May.
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