{"id":30834,"date":"2024-05-10T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=30834"},"modified":"2024-05-10T08:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:35:52","slug":"europa-league-lookman-scores-assist-as-atalanta-beat-marseille-to-reach-first-european-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/10\/europa-league-lookman-scores-assist-as-atalanta-beat-marseille-to-reach-first-european-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa League: Lookman Scores, Assist As Atalanta Beat Marseille To Reach First European Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ademola Lookman scored and provided an assist as Atalanta defeated Olympique Marseille 3-0 to reach the Europa League final on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Atalanta progressed 4-1 on aggregate after the first leg ended 1-1 in France.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time Atalanta will qualify for the final of a UEFA club competition in their history.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman opened the scoring in the 30th minute before providing the assist for Matteo Ruggeri to make it 2-0.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles star now has 12 goals, eight assists in 40 games in all competitions this season.<\/p>\n<p>Atalanta will now take on Bayer Leverkusen in this season\u2019s Europa League final in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The German Bundesliga champions came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with AS Roma and advanced 4-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Atalanta have the chance to win two trophies this season as they are also in the Coppa Italia final, where they will face Juventus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ademola Lookman scored and provided an assist as Atalanta defeated Olympique Marseille 3-0 to reach the Europa League final on Thursday. Atalanta progressed 4-1 on aggregate after the first leg ended 1-1 in France. It is the first time Atalanta will qualify for the final of a UEFA club competition in their history. Lookman opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[739,875],"class_list":["post-30834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ademola-lookman","tag-lookman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30852,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions\/30852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}