Atalanta is topped champion of the Europa League – – 2024-05-25 06:01:18

Atalanta, with a hat trick from its Nigerian striker Ademola Lookman, received the Europa League for the primary time in its historical past and put an finish to German Bayer Leverkusen’s streak of 51 video games with out shedding this season with a devastating 3-0 win this Wednesday. , on the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Lookman received the sport again on observe with two objectives within the first half (12 and 26), earlier than signing the ultimate sentence at half-hour into the second half and securing an unappealable victory, even if Leverkusen arrived as theoretical favorites.

The trophy of this Europa League will accompany in Atalanta’s showcases the opposite title that the entity received in its historical past, the Italian Cup, within the now distant 1963, when lots of the present gamers weren’t even born. The street to the title offers much more luster to the success achieved, since alongside the best way he removed historic gamers comparable to Marseille, Liverpool and Sporting Lisbon, earlier than being the primary to ship a Bayer Leverkusen facet that appeared unstoppable to the canvas.

This pleasure additionally erases the frustration of the ultimate misplaced per week in the past by Atalanta itself, defeated by Juventus within the definition of the Italian Cup. For Leverkusen, their unbeaten tally this season stopped at 51 video games. No European membership had managed to string collectively such plenty of video games with out shedding in all competitions for the reason that creation of the UEFA European tournaments within the 1955-1956 season. Their final fall had been on the final day of the Bundesliga of the 2022/23 season, after they had been overwhelmed by Bochum.

🇮🇹 | NOW: Atalanta defeats Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 and is topped champion of the Europa League, profitable its first trophy in 61 years.
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