LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ademola Lookman scored a stunning hat-trick as Atalanta ended Bayer Leverkusen’s 51-match unbeaten run to win the Europa League final 3-0 on Wednesday and claim their first trophy for 61 years. Lookman became the first player to score a hat-trick in a European final since 1975 to secure Atalanta’s first ever continental…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sevilla, the most decorated club in Europa League/UEFA Cup history with a record five titles, advanced to the final of the 2020 Europa League following the 2-1 defeat of Manchester United on Sunday evening. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer started Nigeria’s Odion Ighalo on the bench, electing to prosecute the game with a front…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Youssef El-Arabi scored in the last minute of extra-time as Olympiakos knocked Arsenal out of the Europa League on Thursday on a night when four former European champions were eliminated. Ajax, Celtic, Benfica and Porto went out but Manchester United hardly broke sweat after Simon Deli of Brugge conceded a penalty and…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Atletico Madrid has won the Europa League for the third time in eight years, thanks to a 3-0 win over Marseille at the Groupama Stadium in Lyon. A goal completely against the run of play a quarter of the way through from Antoine Griezmann gave the 2010 and 2012 winners something to…
