Tremendous beating of Paco Memo: Guillermo Ochoa takes 8 goals from Atalanta in Serie A

Although Guillermo Ochoa He started his adventure in Italian football on the right foot, being a figure in his first two games and giving a point to salernitana in them, this Sunday was different, since they conceded 8 goals to him, the most he has conceded in a single game in his entire career.

It was a day for the Mexican goalkeeper to forget, but more than anything because of the result and not precisely because of his performance, since there was little he could do to avoid scoring and, in fact, he saved a penalty and was close to saving another, in addition to who gave a goal pass on a long clearance for his team’s first goal.

Unfortunately for Paco Memo, this Sunday he did not have good support from his defense and Salernitana fell 8-2 against Atalanta on their visit to the Atleti Azzurri stadium in a match corresponding to date 18 of Serie A.

Jerémie Boga scored the Oróbicos’ first goal at minute 5, Ademola Lookman scored the second after 20 minutes from a penalty and at 23, again from a penalty, Giorgio Scalvini scored, in a shot that Ochoa saved, but the rebound fell to the attacker and struck down the goalkeeper; at 38′ Teun Koopminers scored the fourth and Rasmus Hojlund put in the fifth at 41′.

On the part of Salernitana, Boulaye Dia discounted at minute 10, after sending a ball to the end of the goal that came from a long pass from Guillermo Ochoa.

This is how the first half ended, but for the rest nothing was different, since more goals came from the Nerazzurri: at 54′ Lookman scored a double, although 2 minutes later Hans Nicolussi added for Salernitana and made it 6-2 momentarily, but at 61′ Éderson dos Santos made it 7-2 and five minutes from the end Nadir Zortea sealed the final 8-2.

With this result, Atalanta rose to sixth place and momentarily snatched the last place with a ticket to European tournaments from Roma, while Memo Ochoa’s Salernitana fell to rung 16, just two of the feared positions behind decline.

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