🇮🇹 Atalanta join Juventus in Coppa Italia final with stoppage time win | OneFootball

Two stoppage time goals helped Atalanta beat Fiorentina and join Juventus in the final of the Coppa Italia.

Scorers: Koopmeiners 8′, Scamacca 75′, Lookman 90+4′, Pasalic 90+8; Martinez Quarta 68′

Trailing by a goal heading into the game, Atalanta got the second leg off to a perfect start with Teun Koopmeiners finding the net after just eight minutes. They thought that they had added a second through a Gianluca Scamacca thunderbolt, only for the Italian to see his effort disallowed and the tie remain level.

Fiorentina dominated the ball, but chances came for both sides, with La Viola leaving themselves vulnerable to counter-attacks on several occasions in the first half.

Eight minutes into the seconds half though, the game shifted tone as Fiorentina defender Nikola Milenkovic saw red, forcing his side onto the back foot.

Or so it seemed; La Viola boss Vincenzo Italiano responded by sending on defender Lucas Martinez Quarta for striker Andrea Belotti in a seemingly defensive change, but the Argentine defender popped up with a goal ten minutes later to level the game on the night, and hand his side the advantage on aggregate once more.

Having been denied one stunning goal, though, Scamacca could not leave without notching up an effort of his own and seven minutes after Quarta, he found the back of the net with arguably an even better effort than his ruled out strike.

The ex-West Ham United striker launched himself into an audacious scissor kick, making excellent contact and thundering the ball into the back of the net to put the game back in favour of Atalanta.

Then in stoppage time they made the man advantage count, Ademola Lookman firing them into the final. As Fiorentina pushed for an equaliser on aggregate, they were hit again through Mario Pasalic to give the game some undeserved gloss.