After Atalanta had been dumped out of the Champions League on Tuesday evening, it didn’t take lengthy for Gian Piero Gasperini to savage Ademola Lookman.
La Dea have been taking part in effectively in Serie A, and after an excellent efficiency in opposition to Barcelona earlier within the Champions League, they had been fancied to make it to not less than the Spherical of 16.
Ademola Lookman savaged by his coach
and his team-mates might solely watch on in shock as Membership Brugge tore the hosts aside in a one-sided first-half.
By the break Atalanta had been 3-0 down on the evening and 5-1 down on combination.
Step ahead , to scale back the deficit within the second half.
Atalanta’s hero in final season’s Europa League last then turned their villain after a woeful penalty kick which, if he’d scored, would absolutely have given the house aspect the impetus with half an hour nonetheless to play.
In his post-match press convention, attended by representatives of CaughtOffside, Gasperini didn’t maintain again in his condemnation of the striker.
Gasperini throws Ademola Lookman underneath the bus
“Ademola Lookman is likely one of the worst penalty takers I’ve ever seen,” he stated.
“He needed to take the penalty after scoring a objective, he took the ball regardless of Retegui and De Keteleare accessible to take it.
“I didn’t like what Lookman did.”
If ever there was an instance of throwing a participant underneath the bus, this was it.
There’s no escaping the truth that it was certainly a really poor penalty, nevertheless, for Gasperini to primarily blame Atalanta’s Champions League exit on the striker’s failure from 12 yards may be very poor kind certainly.
On the evening the hosts had been out thought and out-fought, and Gasperini wants to have a look at the collective for the more true reflection as to why it was Membership Brugge who progressed.
