{"id":483387,"date":"2024-05-22T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483387"},"modified":"2024-05-22T16:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:53:21","slug":"lookmans-hattrick-helps-atalanta-beat-bayer-and-win-uel","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lookmans-hattrick-helps-atalanta-beat-bayer-and-win-uel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lookman&#8217;s hattrick helps Atalanta beat Bayer and win UEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ademola Lookman&#8217;s hattrick led Atalanta to a 3-0 victory against Bayer Leverkusen as that was the German team&#8217;s 1st defeat in all tournaments in the current season, and the Italian side will take home the Europa League trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Ademola Lookman opened the score in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Davide Zappacosta\u2019s assist. Ademola netted his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal to double the Italian team lead in the 26<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd35\u26ab\ufe0f\ud83c\udfc6 Atalanta win the Europa League making history!<\/p>\n<p>They are also the ONLY team able to beat Bayer Leverkusen this season, after 51 games undefeated.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s their second trophy EVER after Coppa Italia, 61 years ago \ud83d\ude2e\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9<\/p>\n<p>Magic night for Gian Piero Gasperini and his team. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6rkkY59bm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/M6rkkY59bm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1793384336068133148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ademola Lookman sealed his hattrick and the trophy for his club in the 75<sup>th<\/sup> minute when he scored very beautiful goal from inside the box after Gianluca Scamacca\u2019s assist; as also ended Leverkusen\u2019s unbeaten campaign as they won the Bundesliga without a single defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The Bergamo side triumph means that Serie A can have 6 teams in the Champions League next season but only if Atalanta finished 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the league as that is the club\u2019s current position. If they finish higher, Italy will have only 5 teams in the UCL next campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE FIRST-EVER PLAYER TO SCORE A HAT-TRICK IN A EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL! <\/p>\n<p>Ademola Lookman makes history \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/49FdWOr1tD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/49FdWOr1tD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footballontnt\/status\/1793380466458067076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Xabi Alonso\u2019s side don\u2019t have time to be sad about the defeat because on Saturday they face 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-tier Kaiserslautern in the DFB Pokal final with a chance for another trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ademola Lookman&#8217;s hattrick led Atalanta to a 3-0 victory against Bayer Leverkusen as that was the German team&#8217;s 1st defeat in all tournaments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483388,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19006,18049,17343],"news_category":[14235,143,16715],"gn_keywords":[19445,17561,849],"acf":{"announce":"Atalanta defeated Leverkusen to triumph in the UEFA Europa League.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483390,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483387\/revisions\/483390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483387"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483387"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}