The missed chance shifted momentum.
Atalanta pushed higher over the next several minutes, and their pressing became more coordinated as players recognized the psychological impact of Fiorentina's failure to finish, and at sixty-four minutes Demien got his clearest look of the match so far.
The sequence started with Lookman winning possession near the touchline, and his cross was headed clear by Milenkovic but only as far as the edge of the box, and when the ball dropped toward Højlund the Danish striker cushioned it backward with his chest.
The cutback arrived at Demien's feet just inside the penalty area, and for a split second he had time and space and options—shoot immediately, take another touch, look for a pass—and Andrea Pirlo's Regista Vision showed him everything simultaneously while the hesitation lasted barely a moment but it was enough.
