Leverkusen should have been cautious in advance and should have taken Atalanta as a tough opponent and planned accordingly and then taken the field against this team. Where they beat one of the league favorites by a wide margin, they certainly have a good chance of progressing to the finals if they think about it and plan better against them, the match might not have turned out like this.
Leverkusen lost a big match and the margin of defeat there was huge. If Leverkusen had lost another match before the final, their performance might have been better, but they lost a match from which they had no chance of coming back. But every big team must learn from here because no team is small as an opponent, any team can advance against any team at any time.
The final match of course had a different atmosphere than other games including the semi-finals, every team that reached the final was not a team to be underestimated and I think at that time Leverkusen also did not underestimate Atlanta so they lost, Leverkusen fielded their main squad in the game and even since the game started they continued to press the Atlanta defense with high pressure, But indeed the mentality possessed by Atlanta was actually better in the game, although Leverkusen controlled the game but Atlanta with their tactics and game scheme was more effective in attacking, if you look at Atlanta's game at that time surely you know if Atlanta did not try to control the ball for too long, when the ball was obtained by midfielders and defender players,the ball was directly sent to Scamacca in the front line and made Leverkusen difficult to build regained their defense.
Even though they lost the game, Leverkusen was still able to present a pretty good game in my opinion, but unfortunately the quick counterattack scheme and also the long ball from Atlanta actually made Leverkusen players a little panicked in suppressing the surprise that Atlanta gave, besides that we can see that the mentality possessed by Leverkusen in the final match was not as good as when they faced ordinary matches and even in the DFB final it was also clear if Their mentality was quite affected even though they finally won with a score of 1-0 over the Bundesliga 2 team.