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Quote from: HajiBagi on June 05, 2024, 01:37:27 PM

Atlanta's performance was much better than Leverkusen's during the final match of the Europa League, many people will think that Atlanta won the match because of luck but for me Atlanta won the game with their good performance, from the beginning of the game I noticed that Atlanta will win the game because Alonso made a mistake by not putting striker player from the beginning of the match, we all know that Leverkusen have a good squad and they always start a match with a striker but Alonso refuses to start the game with a striker that is why they can’t score any goals in the game.

I remember when the Europa League season was still in its early stages, I think it was the round of 16 or thereabout that people said the final would be between Liverpool and Leverkusen because both teams were flying and the hottest at the time. I said here that it was too early to tell. The Europa League is not like the Champions League where most time the winners are usually among the favourites. The Europa League is very difficult to win. The only team that has managed to make the title their favourite is Sevilla and lately they've been poor.

I must confess, I never expected Atalanta to win from the early stages, but when they ran riot on Liverpool at Anfield, I had an eye on them and when they got to the final, I knew they'd be no pushovers. I knew Leverkusen were the favourites and I never expected the scoreline, but I knew Atalanta had a big chance of winning that final and they did. They played exceptionally. Didn't allow Leverkusen much space in behind. It's a season to remember for Atalanta I must say.

To me Europa league is even more difficult to predict because right from the start of the Europa competition almost every one predicted Liverpool and Bayern Leverkusen to reach the finals which almost happened If not that Liverpool were stopped by Atalanta and to be honest after Atalanta won Liverpool by 3:0 at Anfield I was having this feeling that they were up to something dramatic even though Bayern Leverkusen was more in the picture of winning the Europa league.
It's really sad to see that Sevilla that have the best record of winning the Europa league on seven occasions performed so poorly in the champions league and could not even make it to the Europa league and it was a very bad season for them even in the la Liga because they managed to finish 14th position last season.
Obviously, Atalanta wasn't even in the picture of winning the Europa league at first but they just became so strong within a blink of an eye and turned things around to their favour and I commend their bravery because they were the only team that stopped Bayern Leverkusen from ending the season unbeaten in all competitions and also winning a treble as Bayern Leverkusen only ended the Bundesliga unbeaten which was also an awesome record they created in the German bundesliga because they are the only Club to have ever done that in the history of the league.