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Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer Leverkusen are plugging away. They've scored so many late goals this season to keep their run going, but any goal they score tonight is going to be a consolation.
Four minutes plus injury time remaining
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Jack: I don't feel so bad about Liverpool's Europa League exit now
Paul: There isn’t going to be any comeback tonight. Atalanta have been brilliant and made leverkusen look awful. They fully deserve this win
Sho: Sad that Leverkusen won't do the full invincible season though. Would've been absolute history.
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Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Proper graft from Gianluca Scamacca leading the line for Atalanta tonight. He is going off for a deserved rest, El Bilal Toure replaces him.
Davide Zappacosta, who has also been superb for Atalanta, is replaced by Hans Hateboer.
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Lookman showing why Everton and Fulham took a chance on him. He will earn a big money move this summer but I think he should stay where he is
Conor
JMG: That's fantastic finishing from Lookman - A perfect hat-trick We should take bets on which Premier League club will now overpay to buy Lookman over the summer though. My bet is on Chelsea and Manchester United.
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Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Changes for Leverkusen as Nathan Tella and Patrik Schick come on for Jeremie Frimpong and Florian Wirtz.
Schlick is immediately into the action as he attempts a flick at the near post but it goes wide.
'Three quality finishes from Lookman'
Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Ally McCoist
Former Rangers striker & manager on TNT SportsThink about the quality of the three finishes from Ademola Lookman.
The first one is about the movement to get in front of the defender and put the ball into the top corner. The second is a beautiful one from the edge of the box and the third is just smacked into the top corner.
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Ademola Lookman is the sixth player to score a hat-trick in the final of a major Uefa competition, and the first since Jupp Heynckes' for Borussia Monchengladbach in the 1975 Uefa Cup.
Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Florian Wirtz fires a shot at goal but it is straight at the goalkeeper.
It just hasn't happened for Leverkusen from minute one. The invincibles are invincible no longer.
Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
So much noise from the Atalanta fans, Ademola Lookman is never going to have to put his hand in his pocket in Bergamo ever again. A hero has been made tonight.
Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Emlyn Begley
BBC Sport at Aviva StadiumAbsolute scenes here. The announcer gets the fans going in a chant of Ademola Lookman not that they needed any help.
Of all the teams who have tried and failed to beat Leverkusen this season, Lookman has destroyed them. Taken them to the cleaners.
'WHAT a goal!'
Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Ally McCoist
Former Rangers striker & manager on TNT SportsGETTY IMAGESWhat a goal! WHAT a goal!
I'm screaming at Gianluca Scamacca to give Ademola Lookman the ball, he's had the defender's number all night long. Eventually Lookman gets the ball, executes a stepover, and bang into the top corner.
Three absolutely marvellous goals from Lookman. What a personal performance.
GOAL - Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Ademola Lookman hat-trick
This night belongs to Ademola Lookman and Atalanta!
It is a hat-trick, an incredible, brilliant hat-trick by Lookman, who has produced one of the great individual final performances.
The forward shimmies past Edmond Tapsoba on the left and hammers the ball into the back of the net.
Brilliant from Lookman and Atalanta are going to be crowned Europa League champions.
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Atalanta's players look like they themselves are the ones who have not won a trophy for 61 years. They haven't, of course, because otherwise they would be in their 80s, but every single one of them out there wants this so badly, and are giving their absolute all.
Atalanta 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Ally McCoist
Former Rangers striker & manager on TNT SportsThere's absolutely nowhere to go for Leverkusen. This is some proper, proper defending from Atalanta.
Nerves back home
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Emlyn Begley
BBC Sport at Aviva StadiumYou can never write Leverkusen off. Their will to win (or at least draw) has been almost unprecedented this season.
But they have been so far off it. Nothing here is screaming famous comeback.
Atalanta 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Right, it is getting into now-or-never territory for Bayer Leverkusen as we enter the final 20 minutes.
The problem is, I've seen nothing from them so far tonight to suggest they are capable of replicating one of their many comebacks.
They've had no answer to Atalanta.
'Atalanta have barely given Leverkusen a sniff'
Atalanta 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Owen Hargreaves
Former Bayern midfielder on TNT SportsThis is remarkable from Atalanta, I don't think they can play at a much higher level than this. To think they are playing a side that is 51 games unbeaten and they've barely given them a sniff. They've squeezed the pitch so much that Leverkusen haven't been able to get going at all.
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Atalanta 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Xabi Alonso makes another change as Exequiel Palacios is replaced by Robert Andrich, while Alex Grimaldo makes way for Adam Hlozek.
Atalanta 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Giorgio Scalvini has been brilliant since coming on at half time for Atalanta and he positions himself perfectly to cut out a really dangerous ball through the middle.
Atalanta 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen
The penalty check comes to nothing and with it the slightest hope for Leverkusen is gone.
Matteo Ruggeri is replaced by Rafael Toloi as we enter four minutes of stoppage time.
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