UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season

[MK-74]

This result was a surprise for everyone, nobody expected Bayern Leverkusen to be defeated like this.
Bayern Leverkusen was the favorite of the cup, but Atalanda played very well and won the cup by winning the title.
Atalanta ended Bayern Leverkuse's unbeaten streak.
Ademola Lookman was the star of the night and scored a hat-trick.

[bering]

Watching the match and it was very fantastic because Atalanta has just made a new history that they can gets their first trophy from European Competition today and the most amazing is Atalanta has succeed to beat Leverkusen with 3 goals without conceded which i am sure people would never expect this result happened especially before this match Leverkusen status is still unbeated and i have to says Leverkusen was playing not into their best performance this because during the match some of Leverkusen players did some mistakes and even Leverkusen was very weak to anticipated counter attack which displayed by Atalanta

Atalanta played very similar to how they beat Liverpool this because Atalanta was attempt to pressed Leverkusen players and this strategy is very successfull because the players like Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong don't get many opportunities to score goals and i can see how frustrating for the players of Leverkusen because they unable to broke the defense of Atalanta and actually i was waiting epic comeback from Leverkusen but it wasn't happend because Atalanta is very consistent to managed their performance on that match but overall this is fantastic match and congratulations to Atalanta for becoming champions this season

[redhack]

Congratulations to Atalanta for winning the Europa League Cup.

Congratulations to Ademola Lookman for a final hat-trick.

[marcous]

Bayer Leverkusen defeat wasn't predictable for most people I assume then worse, they lost by three goals and unexpectedly it is a hattrick by Lookman..
The season of Bayer Leverkusen finished in a good manner in 1.Bundesliga and badly, very badly in fact in UEFA Europa League which is as important as the Bundesliga title. I don't know if they could maintain their excellent form in Bundesliga and how far they could get next season in UEFA Champions League!
Congratulations to Atalanta their well deserved title.

Bayer Leverkusen have gone 51 games unbeaten in all competitions but everything crashes down when they lost to Atalanta, congratulations to the winning club. There's always challenging opponents that shouldn't be underrated based on the shocking events that happens in the European world of football. Atalanta, the record breaker thrashed Bayer Leverkusen 3 nil in the Europa League final and we know how humiliating it can be for such a club that have fought hard enough to maintain the unbeaten run till this very crucial moment. Lookman is named MOTM after stepping out to be one of the incredible threats for Leverkusen, they did their best but it wasn't just good enough.

Congratulations to Atalanta, who have succeeded in winning the Europa League this season. A result that was never expected, where Leverkusen were the favorites before the match but Atalanta managed to create a surprise. Leverkusen impressive record was broken, and Atalanta was the luckiest club to do it, Xabi fleet seemed to have lost its magic. The expected Treble Winner failed to materialize, this was a very painful defeat.

Expectations for Leverkusen are quite high, I really didn't expect them to lose to Atalanta. Apart from that, I think many bettors experienced losses from the results of this final match, once again Atalanta really achieved a miracle by beating Leverkusen. Xabi fleet was overwhelmed by Atalanta solid defense, even though they were very dominant in possession of the ball.

On the other hand, this is probably the biggest shock that has happened this season, and again no one can really predict the final result of the game. Ademola Lookman is probably the player that Leverkusen fans hate the most, his three goals buried Leverkusen dreams. However, Leverkusen still deserves appreciation because they were able to maintain their unbeaten record for 51 matches.

[TelolettOm]

Leverkusen failed in the final, of course it was very painful because they were very favorites but it was very difficult for them to provide fierce resistance to Atalanta. On one hand, this was the first defeat experienced by Leverkusen but it was a great shame that they lost in the final. Apart from that, Alatanta managed to set a record after they managed to beat Leverkusen in the final match, they succeeded in achieving their long wait to become European League champions this season. Alatanta fans are of course very happy, especially since their idol team is one of the teams that managed to break Leverkusen's winning trend.

It is not only painful but it is surprising. Almost all people favor Bayer Leverkusen because they are preforming well and they succeed winning domestic league. I'm also one of the people who favor Bayer Leverkusen and I'm surprised with the result. I don't understand why Leverkusen performed very badly in the final Europa league, they even couldn't score a single goal.

Atalanta played perfectly, they didn't give chances for Leverkusen players to score goals. I really appreciated that Atalanta have very solid defenders. In this final match, Atalanta really showed how the defense strength of Italian team. Sure, Atalanta fans are happy because they may not expect Atalanta to win against Leverkusen. But it is the fact, Atalanta succeed breaking the unbeaten status of Leverkusen today.

Lookman performed quite well as he managed to score two goals in the early minutes which put pressure on his opponent's mentality after Atalanta took a two goal lead. This season European League trophy was successfully brought home by the Serie A team, which in the previous season saw Sevilla become champions after defeating Roma. Of course, Atalanta success makes fans of various in Serie A teams proud because last season Roma failed to do so, but this season Atalanta succeeded in winning the European League trophy. Alatanta has shown its best strength after they beat Liverpool and that has given a sign that Atalanta will succeed in becoming champions and that has become a reality.

Lookman isn't only performing quite well, he played so amazing. Dude, it is the final Europa league and Lookman could make a hattrick (3 goals). It is very rare to see a player who can score a hattrick in the final match. Lookman is also not a very popular player, even I just know this player in this season. He contributed with incredible performance for Atalanta today.

Finally, Serie A team wins an international trophy. Last season, Inter Milan failed to win UCL trophy. Now, Atalanta succeeded winning UEL trophy. It is surely a proud for the team from Serie A.

Lookman celebration



Source: goal.com

[ndutndut]

What a nice performance by Atalanta players they have break Bayern Leverkusen unbeaten record since the beginning of the season, have come to an end tonight by Ademola Lookman, although with a 3 goals down the Nigeria player Lookman was man of the match and I really enjoyed the game because looking at Bayern Leverkusen performance since the beginning of the season one can not believe that Atalanta is going to won them in UEFA Europa league final.

The final match was indeed surprising and it never crossed my mind that Atalanta would win the Europa League considering that Leverkusen this season was very, very impressive without defeat, but in the end Atalanta stopped Leverkusen's unbeaten record. Xabi Alanso made a small mistake here because he could not adapt to Atalanta's strategy and game in pressing, man-to-man, aggressiveness, effectiveness and even Atalanta was superior in all areas, and was able to control the match. Even though Atalanta also used this strategy when eliminating Liverpool, unfortunately Xabi couldn't anticipate it from the start.

Indeed, Leverkusen dominated possession of the ball, but Atalanta was smarter in taking advantage of the situation. Moreover, in the first half Leverkusen really had difficulty escaping Atalanta's pressure which was so intense that it stopped their ball progress. And in the first half, Lookman was really clever at taking advantage of opportunities and he also had a neat finish. That's why the score was 2-0 for Atalanta in the first half. The strategy implemented by Gian Piero Gasperini really went according to plan in this match, and what is interesting is that at the age of 66, he finally managed to win the first trophy in his career as a coach.

[Slow death]

my post is a little late, but I must say that I'm not very surprised by this result, Atalanta beat Liverpool in that competition, so it was already clear that Atalanta could beat big teams, also Leverkusen in this competition despite having arrived In the final, in my opinion, they did not present a solidity equal to Atalanta in terms of performance in this competition and this could mean that Leverkusen could have a bad performance in the champions league next season. Most teams that perform well in the local league and do not have a coach with great experience in European competitions tend to fail in European competitions.



source: https://www.instagram.com/atalantabc/

Congratulations to Atalanta for the great achievement

[poodle63]

LMAO, The invincible club must suffer its first defeat against the parking bus strategy thanks for gasperini being not stubborna and think about how to win the game. Thank you to Gasperini for using his sense to use the parking strategy in this game and you deserved to win europa league this season. Other clubs are so dumb because they can't believe how effective a parking bus strategy was against a club with dominant ball possessions like Leverkusen. It makes leverkusen becomes so clueless.

Atalanta deserved it. Leverkusen deserved this to lose with good scores against atalanta. They pretend that they can break the parking bus, but they can't since atalanta's defensive line is too strong and very consistent. Atalanta was only relying on the counterattack, and it is working. I'm not sure why people regard the parking bus strategy as a bad one to use, but it's extremely useful for open-minded coaches like Gasperini.

Leverkusen gets karma for being overconfident. Congratulations on destroying Leverkusen with only a counterattack. Look at that man Lookman. his price has skyrocketed following this match.

[logfiles]

What Atalanta did was a masterclass. Killing off the game as early as possible and even when Bayer Leverkusen have been known as comeback kings for a while, this was too hard a hill for them to climb.

As a neutral, the game was enjoyable to watch and in the end of it all, Atalanta deserved the title.

Lookman isn't only performing quite well, he played so amazing. Dude, it is the final Europa league and Lookman could make a hattrick (3 goals). It is very rare to see a player who can score a hattrick in the final match. Lookman is also not a very popular player, even I just know this player in this season. He contributed with incredible performance for Atalanta today.

Isn't he the first player to score a hattrick in a Europa League final?

[BitcoinHunt3r]

LMAO, The invincible club must suffer its first defeat against the parking bus strategy thanks for gasperini being not stubborna and think about how to win the game. Thank you to Gasperini for using his sense to use the parking strategy in this game and you deserved to win europa league this season. Other clubs are so dumb because they can't believe how effective a parking bus strategy was against a club with dominant ball possessions like Leverkusen. It makes leverkusen becomes so clueless.

Atalanta did not fully use the parking strategy because they also have the same statistics in shots even Atalanta is slightly better in accuracy/on target imagine out of 10 shots 7 are on target and 3 is  goals. Basically Atalanta does have the ability to attack and defend so Leverkusen did not anticipate this, It's a shame that Leverkusen's good record had to be destroyed by Atalanta, yeah Leverkusen must take experience from this defeat they realized something was missing in their game or maybe they are too confident and underestimate their opponents? What is clear is that this defeat surprised me and many people and what we expected did not happen to Leverkusen I mean we didn't see an impressive game.

[MainIbem]

LMAO, The invincible club must suffer its first defeat against the parking bus strategy thanks for gasperini being not stubborna and think about how to win the game. Thank you to Gasperini for using his sense to use the parking strategy in this game and you deserved to win europa league this season. Other clubs are so dumb because they can't believe how effective a parking bus strategy was against a club with dominant ball possessions like Leverkusen. It makes leverkusen becomes so clueless.

Atalanta deserved it. Leverkusen deserved this to lose with good scores against atalanta. They pretend that they can break the parking bus, but they can't since atalanta's defensive line is too strong and very consistent. Atalanta was only relying on the counterattack, and it is working. I'm not sure why people regard the parking bus strategy as a bad one to use, but it's extremely useful for open-minded coaches like Gasperini.

Leverkusen gets karma for being overconfident. Congratulations on destroying Leverkusen with only a counterattack. Look at that man Lookman. his price has skyrocketed following this match.

Lots of people didn’t see this coming. Honestly, i didn't expect Atalanta to beat the invisible Leverkusen in the just concluded finals not to talk about beating them with a clean sheet, Gasperini deserve all the praise he got today,  what amazes me is that they didn’t park the box all the time, they went all out on Leverkusen sometimes and created better chances for themselves than the Leverkusen did. Their defense was great, the attack was fantastic and they worked as a team to destroy Leverkusen, i love how Gasperini used the Nigerian attacker Lookman as a tool to destroyed Leverkusen's defense and made winning easy for them, Topsiba was no match for him and gave him chance to always penetrate the defense. What i understand in this concluded Europa League season is that Gasperini developed a good tactics in making himself invisible to the big teams he won Liverpool, Sporting and Leverkusen to lift the trophy, they didn’t see it coming cause they all underestimated his team and paid dearly for that. Anyways Congratulations to Atalanta and to Lookman for scoring a hat-trick and helping his team to win their 1st major trophy after so many years of trophy drought.

[Yogee]

I knew Atalanta had a fighting chance but I never expected how the previously unbeaten Leverkusen to not even score a goal. It's just embarrassing for the Bundesliga champions to be losing that way. Congratulations to Atalanta and Lookman for an impressive performance. I won't be surprised if bigger teams from Europe start fighting over him in the offseason.

[BlackBoss_]

my post is a little late, but I must say that I'm not very surprised by this result, Atalanta beat Liverpool in that competition, so it was already clear that Atalanta could beat big teams

Atalanta are one of challenging teams in Serie A last 10 years and with Gasperini as their head coach, they made big surprise in Champions League years ago and managed to compete for a fourth position in Serie A recent years. This shows their quality, competitiveness and quality recent seasons and in Europa League this season, they won over Liverpool at Anfield stadium with a big result, 3 goal difference at a home-away stadium. This shows Atalanta were not fearful against Liverpool and they shown it again in the final match.

In the final, in my opinion, they did not present a solidity equal to Atalanta in terms of performance in this competition and this could mean that Leverkusen could have a bad performance in the champions league next season. Most teams that perform well in the local league and do not have a coach with great experience in European competitions tend to fail in European competitions.

It's a bad day for Leverkusen and it is a great day for Atalanta as a team and Lookman individually. All three shots of Lookman are powerful and fantastic, then it's hard for any goalkeeper can make saves against those shots. Atalanta played well in the final and their big win comes from excellent shots of Lookman because it's his day.

[klidex]

Unfortunately, it was really an unlucky day for me, at first I had doubts about this final match because in my opinion Atalanta is not a club that can be underestimated, even though I was hit by doubts I still tried to believe in Leverkusen if they would be able to beat Atalanta but who would have thought that the Italian club was able to beat Leverkusen with a fairly high score and Leverkusen was unable to score a goal against Atalanta, I thought Leverkusen could overcome my doubts but it turns out to be true if these doubts really have a strong feeling. I am quite disappointed with Leverkusen's defeat at this time because they are a club that doesn't defeated so far but defeated after reaching the final.

This reminds me of Liverpool's match a few months ago where Atalanta was the underdog club but they were able to prove to everyone that they were really strong and were even able to beat Liverpool. Atalanta's record in the Europa League is quite good so it's natural that they deserve to win in final but of course more people favored Leverkusen, Ademola Lookman's performance was also extraordinary, he was able to create a hat trick in that match thanks to him, Atalanta won the Europa League title this season.

[Woodie]

Well well well, looks like Bayer Leverkusen was brought back to reality after that long unbeaten run came to an end last evening all thanks to a brilliant Atalanta performance who played like the champs they are...and funny thing is that even when Leverkusen was down by 2goals people believed a comeback was possible but forgetting this is a final and once you fallback there is noway for a team to comeback from this one!!!

Hands down to Atalanta for a well executed plan to clip Leverkusens wings while they were still in party mode for their past achievements ,and it's good it happened this way so that Leverkusen goes back to the drawing board to put in the work to get positive results in the future.

Congratulations to Atalanta 🎉🏆🏆

[mamesso]

~Snip~

The final match was indeed surprising and it never crossed my mind that Atalanta would win the Europa League considering that Leverkusen this season was very, very impressive without defeat, but in the end Atalanta stopped Leverkusen's unbeaten record. Xabi Alanso made a small mistake here because he could not adapt to Atalanta's strategy and game in pressing, man-to-man, aggressiveness, effectiveness and even Atalanta was superior in all areas, and was able to control the match. Even though Atalanta also used this strategy when eliminating Liverpool, unfortunately Xabi couldn't anticipate it from the start.

This is football, something unexpected is always present as long as the match is not over, Atalanta managed to control the match which made Leverkusen unable to do anything in the final. Atalanta managed to get rid of the two teams with the most potential to win the EUL with the same score (3-0), Liverpool and Leverkusen had to recognize the greatness of Atalanta under the guidance of Gasperini, who had just won the Europa League.
Ademola Lookman became the hero of Atalanta victory after scoring three goals against Leverkusen. Atalanta success in winning the EUL meant that Leverkusen failed to win the Treble winner and ended Leverkusen unbeaten record this season in the 51st match.

Congratulations to Atalanta for successfully winning the EUL and giving Serie A the opportunity to have six teams in the Champions League.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Leverkusen vs Atalanta today's UEFA Europa League final match is going to be held at Aviva Stadium, Dublin Ireland. In today's match both the teams will attack enough to become champions and they will continue to fight a lot to win the title, this match will surely be interesting and hard fought. Leverkusen though is a much stronger team at the moment and they will attack enough to win the trophy and most likely to win the title. Leverkusen, the only team still unbeaten going into the finals, were voted the most in-form this season. Moreover, Leverkusen will definitely try to win today's match against Atlanta by a huge margin and every player will show their best performance in today's match and we will see a surprise in this match. And if Atalanta's players can show their strong side to beat Leverkusen, it could be their first defeat of the season. But between the two teams we will see a surprise in today's match and both teams will fight hard so it is very difficult to say which team will win the match, but Leverkusen is more likely to win the match. So I think if gamblers are betting to win today's match then Leverkusen would definitely be the better bet.

In several matches in the European league, Bayer Leverkusen often fell behind before finally managing to equalize or take the lead so that their record was maintained, and in this final, if Bayer Leverkusen manages to take the lead first then they are very likely to win with big margin, but otherwise Atalanta took the lead first, my prediction is that Bayer Leverkusen will still win but only by one goal difference.
Atalanta cannot be underestimated because they knocked out title favorites Liverpool, but their performance was not that impressive so when facing a Bayer team that is currently very solid and it is very visible how Bayer players continue to be motivated to win Atalanta will face high difficulties, this should be an even match with high intensity.

considering Bayer Leverkusen's performance which is of course very good, there is a possibility that they can be superior judging from the last few matches between these two teams,  Bayer Leverkusen is more consistent in their matches and can always win but even so, there is nothing that can rule out the possibility that Atalanta could beat Bayer Leverkusen in the next match. because even though Atalanta have had several less than optimal matches of course they cannot be underestimated because they can be at this point it shows that they really have a performance that should be appreciated.

I myself think that Bayer Leverkusen will be able to beat Atalanta, but maybe Bayer Leverkusen will have difficulty facing Atalanta because they will definitely show their best game and vice versa. Bayer Leverkusen will definitely do their best because they have surprised many football fans by becoming a strong team this season, and of course Xabi Alonso has definitely prepared a strategy that can make Bayer Leverkusen beat Atalanta. but I think Bayer Leverkusen will make it more difficult for Atalanta and maybe in the next match Bayer Leverkusen will dominate the game more.

I know that some people will be at work, because for me the game fell at 3 in the afternoon , and fortunately I was able to watch it through my phone, I think many saw it that way, I was really looking forward to Seeing Xabi winning the title is something that Shocked me because many of us were expecting Leverkusen's victory, which had shown a lot by Being the most undefeated. Xabi has really done Incredible things but this Strong step is something normal, this is the beauty of Football that is not written Nothing , and I think all of Germany surprised him.

Xabi Alonso shows his class with reaction to Bayer Leverkusen’s Europa League final loss to Atalanta

Xabi Alonso showed his class as he passed on his congratulations to Atalanta after Bayer Leverkusen’s painful 3-0 defeat in the Europa League final, claiming the best team won on the night in Dublin.

Leverkusen, the newly crowned Bundesliga champions, entered this evening’s contest on the back of a remarkable 51-game unbeaten streak in all competitions in what is Alonso’s first full season in senior management.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/22/xabi-alonso-shows-class-reaction-bayer-leverkusens-europa-league-loss-atalanta-20892783/?ito=newsnow-feed

[masulum]

Yesterday I said that I expected Atalanta to win the UEL. This is like a dream because Atalanta and Leverkusen have very different statistics in the domestic league. However, my dream has come true, Atalanta has proven that Serie A is still capable of winning titles in European competitions.

I didn't watch this match, because I fell asleep a few minutes after kick off. However, from the highlights I saw that Atalanta's first goal occurred because of a mistake made by a Leverkusen defender, when Lookman scored a goal that received a pass and ran coming from behind.

Pressure as a team with unbeaten records, may affected to players, since they have to win this match to create a great history for Leverkusen. But, Atalanta is onfire, Lookman incridible, Atalanta success playing with target to break the records and become UEL winner for the first time.

[Solokan]

The Europa League final match was really very exciting and I didn't expect that the Bundesliga champions, who have never lost in the Bundesliga, namely Leverkusen, could be defeated by Atalanta and of course Leverkusen in this match were not able to take advantage of opportunities well. but of course in this match the highlight was Lookman and of course he was a hero for Atalanta and his kick against Leverkusen was very strong and accurate.

Even though in Serie A Atalanta did not become champions, of course this can be compensated by winning the prestigious match in the Europa League and of course many Atalanta fans are happy because Atalanta won the Europa League and of course this is the first time for Atalanta and of course I want to congratulate Atalanta who have won the Europa League title and it seems that now Xabi Alonso and Leverkusen will have to let that title fall into the hands of Atalanta. and of course Gasperini was very great and successful in training his men. Now Gasperini, the Atalanta players and the Atalanta fans are happy. and the name Lookman is now starting to become more and more famous because of his really cool appearance.and I really like seeing Atalanta players holding the trophy.

Source: www.cnnindonesia.com/olahraga/20240523050213-142-1101172/7-fakta-menarik-usai-atalanta-juara-liga-europa-kalahkan-leverkusen/amp

[Majestic-milf]

Defensively, Bayer Leverkusen are not really secured else those two goals won't have found the net to give Atalanta a two goal lead. I won't be in a hurry to declare them the winners yet since the team they are playing against are known to be dying minute equalizers or winners of games so it's still early.
 No doubt that the game is quite tough as the both sides are really getting at each other but in terms of touches, Atalanta seems to be taking the lead but I wonder if they will be able to maintain this form till the end of the game since Leverkusen are beginning to mount pressure too.

Leverkusen also made an extraordinary comeback when they faced Roma in the semi-finals. So it's possible that in the second half Leverkusen will be able to do it again. However, Atalanta's performance was beyond my expectations. I knew they were a strong club but I didn't expect them to be able to break down Leverkusen's defense quite easily in the first half. 2 Goals is clearly an extraordinary achievement for Atalanta. but that doesn't mean they have locked in victory. Because in the second half anything can still happen. And Leverkusen also started to improve their attacks well in the first half. It's just that I hope Xabi Alonso will also pay attention to the gaps in Leverkusen's defense that must be repaired in the second half. And now the first half is over with the score still the same, namely 2-0.

The sweetest part about the match was that Atalanta didn't relent in their attack against their opponents and didn't give space for any mistakes else they would have lost their clean sheet. You know, this win makes me remember how they thrashed Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp's men didn't expect it.
Football is a game of surprises and anything can happen but sometimes too how the outcome of a game will go depends on the effort put in by the players and I'd say Atalanta really put in a great effort in the game.