What Gian Piero Gasperini said about Ademola Lookman after ending his goal drought for Atalanta

• Ademola Lookman ended his extremity drought with a extremity for Atalanta during their 4-0 triumph implicit AC Monza
• Lookman's past extremity for La Dea came successful the 4-0 Serie A thrashing of Juventus successful Turin connected March 9
• Atalanta caput manager Gian Piero Gasperini recovered thing helium did not similar contempt a agleam performance

Atalanta caput manager Gian Piero Gasperini recovered thing helium did not similar astir Ademola Lookman's crippled contempt the attacker ending his extremity drought.

Atalanta bushed relegation-bound AC Monza 4-0 to solidify their 3rd spot connected the array with 3 matches near to spell successful the 2024/25 Italian Serie A season.

Ademola Lookman celebrates aft scoring for Atalanta against AC Monza. Photo by Marco Luzzani.
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Lookman scored La Dea’s 3rd extremity aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional aft Charles De Ketelaere had scored doubly successful the archetypal half. Marco Brescianini made it 4 successful the last minutes.

As noted by Transfermarkt, it was Lookman's archetypal extremity successful 7 matches, ending his six-match extremity drought. His past extremity came successful the 4-0 triumph implicit Juventus successful March.

Gasperini reacts to Lookman's goal

Atalanta brag Gasperini had beardown words for astir of his players, including Lookman, contempt the emphatic win, claiming helium was not blessed with immoderate things they did successful the game.

“Lookman did good successful the 2nd half; I wasn’t excessively blessed with him successful the first,” helium said arsenic quoted by Football Italia.“We can’t spend to suffer focus: we’re precise adjacent to our goal, and we request the enthusiasm to support flying and scope different important milestone. Wasting it owed to lapses successful attraction would beryllium a existent shame.”

Ademola Lookman shakes manus with Gian Piero Gasperini aft helium was substituted against Monza. Photo by Marco Luzzani.
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Atalanta stay 3rd connected the log, 5 points supra in-form AS Roma and stay connected people for Champions League shot adjacent season. They were successful the rubric contention until they suffered 3 consecutive losses to Inter Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio.

Lookman praises De Ketelaere

Reigning African Best Lookman admitted that the squad proved a constituent contiguous with their 4-0 triumph aft the disappointing gully against Lecce successful the erstwhile match.

“Yes, past week we weren’t precise blessed with the result, aft a gully astatine Lecce, and contiguous we wanted to enactment it right. Four goals distant from location is ever a bully result,” helium told DAZN Italia.

He singled retired teammate Charles De Ketelaere for praise aft the Belgian scored doubly successful the archetypal fractional connected his instrumentality to the starting 11 aft a while.

“Charles has a batch of qualities, helium knows this. It’s ne'er ever casual to support going, but helium has the tone to support connected going, to support trying, truthful that’s the astir important thing,” helium added.“Sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes it does, but arsenic agelong arsenic you support trying. That’s the astir important – support trying.”

Gasperini reacts to Lookman's mistaken substitution

Legit.ng antecedently reported that Gasperini reacted aft mistakenly substituting Ademola Lookman during Atalanta's 1-0 nonaccomplishment to SS Lazio.

The caput manager claimed helium told the team's manager to substitute Ede arsenic successful Ederson, but erroneously thought helium said Ade, starring to the Nigerian’s substitution.

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Source: Legit.ng