He will bring his energy to his teammates. He has been an exemplary captain in terms of his behaviour on and off the pitch. My teammates need to savour and enjoy the match but need to make sure they play at their highest level. They need to pick themselves up after any mistakes.
Indeed, they have only won one major trophy in their history — that was the Coppa Italia back in They are looking to become the first Italian side to lift this trophy since Parma in They ruined the chance of a Jurgen Klopp send-off in Dublin by beating Liverpool in the quarter-final and overpowered Marseille in the semi-final second leg winning to give them a aggregate win.
The challenge steps up now against the invincible Leverkusen side. You can stop Leverkusen by playing as a team. It is our defence and attack working as a unit.
Our motivation is we can become the first team to beat them. Atalanta lost the Coppa Italia final to Juventus last week — the third such cup final defeat for Gasperini with La Dea. It is a different story this year, as Bayer Leverkusen look to complete an unprecedented unbeaten treble. Bundesliga side Kaiserslautern. All told they have scored 33 goals in the last ten minutes of matches.
Those late goals have played crucial parts in their European campaign. In the last 16 against Qarabag, they came from down to draw in Azerbaijan with a very late Patrik Schick goal but in the return leg, they needed substitute Schick to strike once again.
