By Jamie Spencer Bayer Leverkusen and Atalanta will go head to head in this season’s Europa League final at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on 22 May. Although they won 4-2 on aggregate to qualify for a first European final since Real Madrid beat them with that Zinedine Zidane volley at Hampden Park in the Champions League 22 years ago, Leverkusen nearly saw their undefeated season go up in smoke in their 49th game of 2023/24. Xabi Alonso’s high-flying side have already wrapped up the Bundesliga title and will soon also contest the DFB-Pokal final against Kaiserslautern three days after the Europa Leag…