I was reading the news and just now regarding the European teams that will participate in the Champions League this year it turned out that another club that will participate in the competition is Atalanta who have made another great purchase that will certainly give a great reinforcement to this team so watch out for Atalanta who could do really well or at least make a good progress in these matches, they seem to be a strong team and full of stimuli after the success they had in the Europa League
Atalanta did very well in the last Europa league competition for sure but champions league? It's a completely different ball game entirely. Compared to the UCL, I would say the Europa is alot easier to scale through the stages. The UCL on the other hand, you're more likely to lose out at any stage of the competition because the stakes and very high and almost all teams there are top tier teams — at your level or above it. As much as I'd love to see an underdog like Atalanta or Leipzig to win, I don't think we'll get it in the upcoming season.
The next season will be an intensifying one, so I don’t see small tier teams making it that far in the league. In the case of Atalanta, if they can play well as they did in the last year’s Europa League, they can make it far in the champions league too but can’t get close to winning it because of the high level tier teams that will be playing in the competition. You are very right that the champions league is not as easy as the Europa league, so they will find it difficult scaling through the stages here. Luck do happen and they might be lucky to make it that far, but it doesn’t still guarantee them to win the finals. How strong are they that they can beat those big teams and make it to the finals? It looks very impossible to be frank.