LaLiga: Ademola Lookman responds to Atletico Madrid boss, Diego Simeone’s apology

Super Eagles attacker, Ademola Lookman, has responded to Atletico Madrid boss, Diego Simeone’s apology regarding his being utilized successful an unfamiliar presumption during the archetypal matches of the 2026/2027 season.

Lookman was incapable to people successful the archetypal 2 games against Malaga and Villarreal, which led Simeone to publically apologize to the Nigerian for utilizing him arsenic a halfway guardant owed to the lack of Julian Alvarez and Alexander Sorloth.

However, the Nigeria planetary made a notable comeback by scoring successful Atletico Madrid’s 3-1 triumph implicit Sevilla astatine the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium on Saturday night.

In his favoured left-wing position, the erstwhile Atalanta subordinate recovered an opening successful the container and struck a debased changeable into the bottommost country during the archetypal half.

In an interrogation with ESPN aft the match, Lookman emphasized the value of sustaining their affirmative momentum portion striving for betterment and squad development.

In effect to his manager’s apology, Lookman commended Simeone and his coachin...