Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 58. (Read 58961 times)

At some point in the match Bayer Leverkusen were appearing clueless in their form and performance especially in the first half after the second goal, their psychology did went down and I could see that they were almost appearing totally defensive so that they will be able to stop further conceding of goals but then it continued in the second half of the game of which I don't want to believe Leverkusen did well enough.

Some how I felt like there were some level of pressure around the game that Leverkusen couldn't handle because at this point everyone was aware they were about to make history and all that meanwhile Atalanta knowing all this understood the pressure and how well to take advantage of it to seeing how well they can be of a problem to Leverkusen and stop them from been able to win the trophy already so they added more pressure and increased it for Leverkusen to been able to handle. An early goal has always been the tactics of Atlanta as they did used it against Liverpool and it did worked.

Leverkusen would have been able to avert that losses if they were able to calm the pressure at the beginning of the game as that has already gotten them to have some flaws already in their form and their morales were down when they were now two goal behind because in oder to win they have to cancelled the two goals first after which they can now hop to score more goals to win.

Atalanta need to stop selling their important players like they sell Hojlund last season. They will play in Champions League next season, they will need to upgrade their squad depth to able to compete with top teams. Gasperini is a good tactician, he elevate Atalanta to be a tough team and have an attractive gameplay throughout his coaching career at Atalanta.

Despite they have won a european trophy, Atalanta still need to have improvements. They have capability to compete for the title race next season, if they are able to maintain their form with some improvements. Winning the Europa League trophy can become a morale booster for the players, I hope they will enter next season campaign with confidence and compete for Scudetto.  

Indeed no one imagined that Leverkusen could lose 3-0 to Atalanta in the final yesterday, naturally many people were surprised by the result of the match from the defeat of Leverkusen who had never lost before, it was indeed a crazy result for a team but even so Atalanta broke them in the final, Lookman became a star in the Final match with his Hatrick.

Rumors are always there, where big team coaches will soon leave their seats, such as Ancelotti, Klopp and others so it is natural that many rumors that Xabi may have many offers, with the achievements he has obtained during this season it is quite natural that people talk about him as one of the potential coaches to develop a team into a great team.
Is it true that Gesperini will also leave Atalanta? is that what you mean? why is that, are there problems that occur or m, did Gesperini get another offer to coach and better than Atalanta? how can they participate in the champions league next season, why would he leave?

If what you mean is the Atalanta team, I also have no doubt that they will be much better than this season in the next season, but that doesn't just revolve around the best players, it also includes the tactics they have at the moment. they can develop it again in the next season. Because there are many people who didn't expect the tactics that Atalanta had this season that they were able to win the Europa League which was quite surprising because before that no one predicted they could win with conditions like that.

The extraordinary successes and records achieved by Bayer Leverkusen with Xabi Alonso at the helm will not be erased by a single defeat, what they have done over the last 2 years is nothing short of extraordinary, but unfortunately sooner or later it happens that you lose a match, too bad for them it was in the Europa League final. Let's say that Atalanta studied their opponent well before facing them, the match seemed very unbalanced from the very first minutes of the game

for me or even for all football bettors and fans, the Leverkusen incident is very clear evidence that no matter how strong the team is and no matter how strong its consistency, in the end there will be another team that is much stronger that can beat it, like Atalanta who initially underestimated and even considered not the favorite team, but in the end the team bought all their doubts.
and it is a valuable lesson for Leverkusen and even bettors that everything that looks convincing does not always produce something beautiful and this is also one of the lessons and experiences of Xabi who became one of the great coaches in history who was able to conquer the Bundesliga even though he had to fail in the Europe League but in the future Xabi will definitely have a better strategy.

Leverkusen failure is a source of pride for all parties involved, even though they could not get the title, but as a team that only lost once in one season, it was something very big and they even managed to get the DFB title which could replace the European League title this season.
In the following season Xabi will still be the coach who will manage the Leverkusen players and it is possible that Xabi will have a slightly bigger challenge to compete in the UCL to prove that Leverkusen can be part of this big team.

If Bayern Leverkusen can replicate what they did this season in all competitions in the following season when they’ll be competing in the top European competitions, they can do well and go far like they did this season in the following season. They have won the heart of many this season and a treble was what most people hope for them to win because of their excellent performance this season. They were so optimistic to win all the leagues but were unlucky after losing to Atalanta in the Europa League finals. It was a wonderful season for them regardless, and the bigger task ahead for them is that of the next season which they need to take more serious and concentrated about because many teams already know what they can do and they won’t take it cool on them when they clash from next season.

I suppose you are right on that, one can even call it as an over confidence on the team and their fans. You know when you have become good with something that always favours you, you then take it as part of you and feel everything is actually going to fall into place which obviously is not so because life and football itself can be funny, I could say what happened to Bayern Leverkusen was a typical example of how life actually plays or hits someone.

Sometimes we become so confident of our surrounding that we forget the little things are the ones that can actually cause a big damage to us which was typical Bayern Leverkusen case. But all the same atleast they still achieve something that haven't been done in the bundesLiga before and not even the almighty Bayern Munich has done it which is their unbeaten run in the bundesLiga.

Xavi Alonso didn't take the finals as a final. He saw it as a normal match that he could win in 90+ plus. Will I say that he lack the ability to play finals. Let me see how he feels with his order final. I discovered that even after Atlanta scored Bayern Leverkusen 2 goals, all the fans, Coach and players were very confident that they will come back and win the matche. But the reality stroke when Lookman scored the 3rd goal.

I was not just happy when they were not able to complete what they started. This would have been a big history made for them but they approached the finals in a weak manner. I know that finals is always won by motivation and determination and not by the quality of players or quality of play. Lookman took the bulls by the horns and delivered an astonishing 3 goals to deliver the trophy to his club.

Since Atalanta won the trophy, they have the ability because assuming Bayer Leverkusen has the ability they would have stopped Atalanta not to secure all those goals but based on the ability they have to apply new strategy, they were able to secure 3 goals to beat unbearable team.

I know many teams has learn their lesson from this UEFA Europa league tournament that ended up for the favor of Atalanta, and it will make others team to be more serious with Atalanta next season to ensure they stop them not to near 4th position in the table next season.

If you look at the way Atalanta take start the season and the way Bayer Leverkusen take start this season, you will know that they embrace this trophy by luck because Bayer Leverkusen play more than Atalanta but they made some mistakes in the final game that made them to loss against Atalanta.

Have you check Atalanta scored sheet this season? They push their self to the top 4 through collective effort of individual players, there isn't just a single player that is the best, if you check individual stats you will see that even the guy that did hatrick Lookman was having 5 goals before that match prior to that and yet he had 44 appearance this season but luckily piers through Leverkusen thick skin and broke their winning streak of the season.

As long as Manchester City, Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern Munich, and other top teams are present in that tournament, they can't beat all these clubs easily, not this way and just like the way you have said, there is high chance their performance might reduce next season, they only got away with Europa trophy because if Leverkusen carelessness.

Atalanta disproved all doubts about them by beating Leverkusen in the final with quite a landslide score too. This is a result that I don't think many people would have predicted, because from the start Leverkusen appeared as favorites to win. However, with all the hard work done by Atalanta, they were finally able to defeat Leverkusen in the final round, where previously Leverkusen was an unbeaten team.
This also has an impact on their coach, because it is reported that their coach is now being targeted by several teams. However, this news is just a rumor and there is no definite confirmation. However, Atalanta also have to prepare themselves, because if the rumors come true and their coach leaves them, they are ready for that and can quickly appoint a new coach to navigate the next season.
But now they can still celebrate their success in the Europa League this season.

Unfortunately it didn't go according to Alonso's plan, they had to be beaten in the most important match even though the previous match in the domestic league was not an important match but Bayer Leverkusen still tried to win but it was their turn to be in an important match they failed to do so. To be honest, I am also quite disappointed with this result and had supported Bayer Leverkusen by including them in my bet but they failed to do so really upset.

Atalanta, who played more relaxed and were not the favorites, actually played calmly without pressure. They seemed to control the ball in their minds, even though on the field, Bayer Leverkusen controlled the ball more, but in reality, Atalanta was the one who was able to score more than 2 goals and made Bayer Leverkusen feel short of breath because they were unable to break through his opponent's defense and was unable to score a single goal.

What can hinder their performance next season is if their key players move to a bigger club, but if they don't then it means that Atalanta will still be able to come up with their outstanding performance. However, it does not mean that because you performed superbly this season means that you will be able to do the same next season. This is because clubs will want to improve their squad by bringing in new players to strengthen the quality of the club.

We have seen it in some clubs whereby, they win the league this season and did very bad in the next season. Napoli is a typical example of such club. What matters is that a strong club should keep up to its quality at all times, and that is what will make that club to be counted among the strongest clubs. I hope to the best of Atalanta next season.

they can achieve great results considering the great result they have achieved is the result of years of preparation so as they have been able to do in recent years they will find excellent players who will be able to honor the shirt and do well in the coming years too, I still remember when Josep Ilicic was there who great player, it was thought that it would be difficult to find a player to replace him given the depression and yet he lost and the club was able to replace the player very well so I think they can achieve excellent results with excellent replacements

Agree, even though Atalanta has the ability, but Atalanta often experiences a decline in performance in the midst of competition. Therefore, these factors mean that Atalanta cannot expect too much. But at least, because of Atalanta's success this season in winning the Europa League trophy by beating a team that was undefeated throughout the season, it is possible that factor will be a moral increase for the Atalanta squad next season. Thus, it is hoped that Atalanta will be able to get better results, even if only in one of them, whether getting better results in Serie A or in the Champions League. But of course, maintaining consistency is a difficult job, even big teams cannot easily get good results throughout the season.

The fact that everyone sees Leverkusen as the favorite must have put pressure on them. Atalanta started the match very comfortably. In any negative situation, it would have been expected, but they proved everyone wrong and played a wonderful evening. They became the first team to defeat Leverkusen this year. They were also the only ones to beat Leverkusen. A good end of the year for Atalanta. The opposite is true for Leverkusen.

Thanks to winning the Europa League final, Gasparini most likely will be able to receive additional funding in the summer, this will strengthen the team, but I agree that Atalanta is not that team, which is capable of achieving great success in the Champions League. And the main reason for this is the unstable play, this is a long-standing problem of Atalanta, they are capable of playing great, but at some point they simply begin to lose and concede more than they should.

The match between Leverkusen and Atalanta was already foreseen to be competitive, but Leverkusen got so vulnerable at the earliest moment of the game after the first goal was netted. Despite expectations for Leverkusen to bounce back and exert pressure on Atalanta, they got disorganized, allowing Lookman to exploit gaps and secure a crucial goal for Atalanta. This initial setback seemed to cost Leverkusen dearly, seen in Xabi's panic as they were behind by two goals before the injury time. The mounting pressure from Atalanta increased Leverkusen's struggles, giving them the ability to take control of the match.

 Leverkusen has shown resilience in previous matches by series of comebacks, their efforts were broken and condemned by Atalanta's solid defense and Lookman's three winning goals in the game. Leverkusen's performance throughout the match was lacking in several areas with their attempts to outrun Atalanta's defense proving ineffective. Despite the disappointment, Xabi's efforts to lead Leverkusen to this stage should be appreciated and honored too.

 In conclusion, Atalanta's victory over Leverkusen was a significant achievement, breaking Leverkusen's unbeaten record and demonstrating their feats on the field. Leverkusen's lackings in the match gave them areas for improvement, particularly in maintaining composure under pressure and breaking through resistive defenses. While the defeat is a huge loss, it's not the end for Leverkusen, and they can use this experience to regroup, learn, and come back stronger in future matches. Congratulations to Atalanta for their well-deserved victory, and for proving themselves as a formidable opponent throughout the match. Leverkusen definitely should be looking forward to their DFB pokal encounter and I'm certain it'd be an easy win for them. There and then they'd be crowned with two trophies.