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In a forceful way, Atalantathe Bergamo team, won the Europa League for the first time in its history. The team led by Gian Piero Gasperini shattered the undefeated record of 51 games it had held Bayer Leverkusenthe Bundesliga champion, and won the continental trophy with an unforgettable 3-0 and a performance for the history of Ademola Lookmanauthor of the three goals, and obviously, a prominent figure in the definition that was played in Dublin.
Lookman, born in London, represents the Nigerian national team and has been playing for Atalanta since 2022. He was a youth talent who emerged at Charlton, became a Under-20 world champion with the English team, and Everton acquired his signing for 8 million euros. However, he later considered that he did not have the same opportunities to reach the senior team and decided to represent the Green Eagles. He went through Leipzig, where he did not excel, and returned to England to play for Fulham and Leicester, until a couple of years ago he signed for Atalanta. And there he reached the best version of himself.
In the final, Lookman took control of the match early on. At 12 minutes, he anticipated Argentine Exequiel Palacios, who delayed the clearance, and arrived from the left sector to finish with a left-footed shot at the near post.
It didn’t take long for Lookman’s second goal to arrive, this time with a furious and cornered right hand, after an erratic start from Leverkusen, when a forward from the German team headed towards his own field, took the team out, and enabled the number 11 , who took the ball, eluded two rivals towards the crescent, and took an unstoppable shot.
The third came on a counterattack at 30 minutes into the second half. Scamacca drove through the center of the field, got as far forward as he could and gave way to Lookman, who was arriving from the left. The Londoner swung himself to avoid Tapsoba and took a tremendous left foot shot, pure power, unstoppable by the Czech Kovar.
In this way, Lookman put an end to Xabi Alonso’s team’s historic undefeated record and Atalanta celebrates the first international trophy in its history. The Nigerian became the first player in 12 years to score a hat-trick in a European final, since Colombian Radamel Falcao scored three goals in Atlético Madrid’s 4-1 victory over Chelsea in the 2012 Super Cup. In a Europa League , the last triplet had been scored by the German Jupp Heynckes, for Borussia Mönchengladbach over Twente, from the Netherlands, in a 5-1 in the 1975 final, when the tournament was called the UEFA Cup.
For the Bergamasco club, its only previous title had been a Coppa Italia in the 1962/63 season. And he will have the possibility of adding another trophy when he plays the European Super Cup, on August 14, in Warsaw, against the winner of the Champions League, which will be known in the final on June 1 between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund.
Lookman, speaking to Sky Sport after scoring the hat-trick against Bayer Leverkusen, commented: “I’m very, very, very happy. We have all made history together. This is incredible. Last season we came a long way to qualify for the Europa League and this season we won the trophy. It is a fantastic effort that everyone in the group has made. Tonight we are going to celebrate.”
Gian Piero Gasperini, Atalanta coach, highlighted: “It’s a wonderful feeling, the boys were incredible. The game they played tonight was fantastic. You can’t be content with defending in a game like this. We knew that they [Bayer Leverkusen] They were very strong on offense, but maybe not so strong when you force them to defend. Everything has been going well from the beginning. Above all, the way in which we have won matters. We deserved it, absolutely.”
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2024-05-23 02:11:00
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