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Quote from: HajiBagi on June 07, 2024, 10:14:35 AM

I didn’t even know that Dortmund didn’t end up in a fourth position in the Bundesliga league this season until after seeing your reply, so does that mean that Dortmund won’t play Champion League next season? Dortmund didn’t take Bundesliga title seriously this season, all they wanted to win was the champion league and in the end, they ended up going home without no winning trophy, it will be a bad season for Dortmund because they mean this champion League and at the end, they end Real Madrid defeated them without no allowing them to win anything this season, Dortmund tries in the match but Real Madrid is playing with mentality against every team.

Dortmund goal was not to win the Bundesliga title this season because Bayer Leverkusen had already secured the position to deal with Bayern Munich. Dortmund struggled to get into the top four due to Leipzig, finishing in 5th position. Dortmund will play in the next Champions League, and it is not only the Bundesliga that provides 5 clubs with tickets for the next Champions League, but also the Seria A. Five clubs have qualified for the next Champions League.

Quote from: Weawant on June 09, 2024, 09:22:58 PM

It was all about preparations, Atlanta was well prepared than it was expected of them, Leverkusen didn't look equally prepared as Atlanta was and it was now like an advantage for Atlanta to use and get ahead of Leverkusen because if Leverkusen was prepared well enough, they wouldn't have allowed all that happen to them not in a game as this that they needed the most to crown all their efforts for the season with a greater rewards.

This has served as a lesson for Leverkusen because they thinking it was going to be business as usual but then it turns out that they are now been defeated for the first time because they let their guard down thinking they will be able to still win even with such uninformed pattern.Atalanta having the opportunity for the first time in a very long while decided to make the best of it and it turns out in their favour.

Bayer Leverkusen underestimated Atalanta in that game, since Atalanta wasn't among the top 4 in the Seria standing before Europa League final, Leverkusen may think that it was going to be an easy game to win. No team will like to miss their chances of winning the Europa trophy. I stated on this thread before the match began, that we shouldn't be surprised if Bayer Leverkusen lost against Atalanta because that was the only opportunity Atalanta had to win a trophy this season, and Atalanta ended up surprising us by scoring two goals in the first half to end their unbeaten record. Of course, Xabi Alonso will learn his lesson this season, they shouldn't underrate any of their opponents next season, they should focus on winning their games.

Leverkusen really tried alot this season despite being beaten by Atalanta in the final match.I won't use that game to judge them or to say they underrated Atalanta because before they played that game,they must have checked the record of Atalanta at that period, and saw that they were really in a good form,so that game didn't take them unaware of that they underrated them,but what I see there is that Atalanta watched how they play,the way their tactics is,and worked on it from training,that is why it didn't take them so long for Atalanta to get two goals in the first half of the game.

Atalanta coach is an experienced coach and he was able to understand Leverkusen game tactics which gave him an upper hand in that match. Since he understood their game tactics, he came up with a game tactics that will outsmart that of Xabi Alonso which he succeeded, and that was why you see that Leverkusen was unable to face and calm down the pressure on them after the first goal.

Xabi gat no other option or tactics to use and he saw it that Atalanta coach has used experience over him which was what made all his effort in vain. From history, Leverkusen is always finding it difficult to win Atalanta and that was what still played out that day, and this is why I will agree with you that Leverkusen never underestimated Atalanta. It is same with Liverpool.