Serie A: Ademola Lookman’s Atalanta Thrash Napoli

Napoli’s Champions League hopes were left hanging by a thread after Saturday’s 3-0 home humbling by Atalanta.

Nigeria Ademola Lookman was not on target but first-half goals from Aleksei Miranchuk and Gianluca Scamacca and a late Teun Koopmeiners strike boosted sixth-placed Atalanta’s chances of a spot in Europe’s top club competition.

Francesco Calzona’s Napoli stay seventh, nine points behind Bologna who are fourth and currently in the final Champions League spot ahead of their home fixture with rock-bottom Salernitana on Easter Monday.

Napoli are also six points behind fifth-placed Roma with the capital club at Lecce and Italy in a good position to get an extra spot in next season’s revamped Champions League.

“We’re not mathematically out of it but the chances of us getting there are very slim,” said Calzona after his first league defeat as Napoli boss.

Napoli have 30 fewer points than they had at this stage last season and under Calzona have failed to keep a clean sheet in eight matches.

“In certain situations, we melt away. We’re fragile when we don’t have the ball,” said Calzona.

“We need to find some defensive solidity because it’s not good enough.”