Atalanta was in a good form last season and that was why they were able to beat Liverpool and Leverkusen in finals to win the cup. The club sold some of their players and that affected the team performance. It is a shock to see how a strong team became so weak without playing matches. It seems that Italy teams can be very strong today and become vegetables tomorrow. This was what happened to Napoli too last season.
You are so funny but you are actually saying the true because Napoli really surprised me the following season of their champions, I believe even though they can't win again at least they should end up as runner up, unlike Manchester United that won champions league in 2008 and become the runner up the following season against Barcelona, with their performance then no one really blame them, but by the way that match was so boring as if it wasn't a champions league final, I will agree with you on Atalanta but even then they are not that strong but they only make use of the chances they got by eliminating the two teams people were anticipating to see any of them lifting the trophy.