Atalanta adopted up its Europa League title with a 3-0 win over Torino in Serie A on Sunday and ended Roma‘s hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.
Gianluca Scamacca and Ademola Lookman scored first-half targets for Atalanta and Mario Pasalic added a penalty after the break because the Bergamo facet moved as much as fourth place, one level forward of Bologna.
Lookman was coming off a hat trick in Atalanta’s 3-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen within the Europa League ultimate on Wednesday, and the Europa League trophy was on the sideline earlier than kickoff.
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Sixth-place Roma, which later misplaced 2-1 at Empoli, wanted Atalanta to complete fifth to qualify for the Champions League.
It is the ultimate spherical of the Italian league however Atalanta nonetheless has a sport to make up in opposition to Fiorentina subsequent Sunday.
Scamacca scored first after being arrange by Charles De Ketelaere then Lookman tapped in a rebound of a shot from Pasalic following one other set-up from De Ketelaere. Halfway via the second half, Lookman was fouled to supply the penalty for Pasalic.
Afterward, Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini introduced that he plans to stick with the membership – ending hypothesis that he would possibly head to Napoli.
“I’m tied to Atalanta and can proceed to be,” Gasperini mentioned. “I’m trustworthy.”
Additionally, defending champion Napoli was held to a 0-0 draw at house by Lecce and completed tenth to overlook out on all European competitions. Torino is ninth and might nonetheless qualify for the Europa Convention League if Fiorentina wins the third-tier European trophy on Wednesday.
Three groups entered the ultimate day of the season trying to keep away from relegation and Udinese and Empoli stayed up whereas Frosinone went down.
Empoli wanted to win and went forward with an early objective from Matteo Cancellieri however Houssem Aouar equalized for Roma. Then M’Baye Niang received it for the Tuscan membership by ending off a counterattack in stoppage time. It was Niang’s sixth objective for Empoli since becoming a member of the membership in January.
Udinese beat Frosinone 1-0 with a late objective from English ahead Keinan Davis, that means that coach Fabio Cannavaro fulfilled his project of avoiding the drop zone after being employed final month.
Udinese has been within the high division uninterrupted since 1995.
Additionally, Italian champion Inter Milan was held 2-2 at Hellas Verona, and Lazio drew 1-1 with already-relegated Sassuolo.
Earlier than kickoff on the Stadio Olimpico, former Lazio coach Sven-Goran Eriksson was honored.
Eriksson revealed in January that he has most cancers and might need lower than a yr to stay. He coached Lazio to the Serie A title in 1999-2000
