Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini has likened Italy's coronavirus to "the plague".

Gasperini returned to Italy after guiding Atalanta to the Champions League quarterfinals this week after victory at Valencia.

"Plague, it's like the plague," Gasperini told the Corriere dello Sport. “Our life has changed. An inverted world.

“I have seen that they have moved matches in the Europa League, soon I guess it will be the Champions League.

“Italy is twenty days ahead of other countries. In these parts, in Lombardy, we are sufficiently organised, even in difficulty.

“I wonder what could happen in Rome or Naples."