Ademola Lookman (26) will be remembered forever in Bayer Leverkusen and not exactly for the better. The Nigerian striker broke the undefeated record of Xabi Alonso after 51 games without defeat and made it to the final, in the first European title in the history of Atalanta.
And after 90 minutes in which the men from Bergamo beat the Germans from start to finish with a hat-trick from Lookman, everyone is asking themselves. Who is Lookman? Well, the Nigerian footballer, who was born in England, is a quick, powerful, unbalanced attacker with a lot of courage. ?Was your match against Leverkusen easy? Nope. This is not a coincidence. From a young age he has shown ways and week after week he shows in Serie A that he is Atalanta’s most destabilizing footballer. He likes to play on the left and go inside, looking for the long stick.
In a football where fewer and fewer brave players look their opponents in the eye and tell them “I’m going to mess you up,” Lookman has always done it. Sometimes he even overdoes it because he is a virtuoso, he is confident and he also knows that he is very good.
Hero of the final
During the season, it happened to Atalanta in many games that it outscored its rivals like Leverkusen and the lack of goals deprives it of comfortable results. However, this time the powerful little winger had sharp aim. With a hat-trick, thanks to two great goals after leaving Xhaka first in Tapsoba Then, he nailed two high shots from the corner. For the first time in a final, an attacker scored a hat-trick with the chance of no more goals. That is, later on, three goals were scored by the same player, but in matches with more goals. He is the first African to score more than one goal in a UEFA competition final.
Football explodes from Gasperini’s hand
Everyone knows that the Italian coach works miracles with his teams and his players, and Lookman’s case is one of many. Perhaps the most noticeable after its exhibition. Before signing for Atalanta, he had a very irregular life Everton, Fulham, Leipzig and Leicester without a fix. With Gasperini’s help, he brings out his best version. This season in Serie A he scored 9 goals in 29 games and provided 6 assists. While in the Europa League in 11 games he scored 5 goals and provided an assist. At the age of 26 and with a market value of 30 million, he can do whatever he wants. In the Africa Cup he shared the lead Osimhen and it was clearly he who carried the ‘Las Águilas’ backpack, leaving the Napoli attacker behind.
Source: La Verdad
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