Ademola Lookman arrived in Dublin at the start of this week having lost the AFCON final with Nigeria and the Coppa Italia final with Atalanta already in 2024.
“They always say third time lucky,” he said with a grin and the match ball tucked under his right arm after a career-defining night as Xabi Alonso’s all-conquering Bayer Leverkusen were upstaged on Wednesday night.
Atalanta – nicknamed La Dea (The Goddess) – have their crowning moment and only a second trophy in their 116-year history – six decades on from lifting the Coppa Italia in 1963.
Alonso had no response to the suffocating press. His forlorn defender, Edmond Tapsoba, will have sleepless nights all summer long, exposed by the pace of Lookman, who was hoisted into the air by his team-mates two years to the day since his final Premier League appearance for Leicester against Southampton.
Defender, Sead Kolasinac, said: “Before…
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