Against a solid Torino, Udinese is keen to make it known that the victory against Lazio was a coincidence.
At the Blueenergy Stadium a challenge between two fundamentalists of the three-man defense like Cioffi and Juric, even if with the latter confined behind glass to serve his second day of disqualification. In the Friulians it is left out again Samardzic, to whom Payero’s quantity is preferred, and Pereyra is moved to the wing, leaving the burden of inventing in the central area to Thauvin alone, who has been very inspired lately. In the Granata ranks, the return of Mergim Vojvoda stands out, albeit as the arm of the three-man defence, and the debut from the first minute of Okereke in place of the injured Sanabria. In this match between an Udinese in search of safety points and a Turin that wants more than the now standard tenth place, what provides a further point for discussion is the intersection between three young Italian national teamsfreshly called up: Alessandro Buongiorno, Raoul Bellanova and Lorenzo Lucca.
Torino decides to bite the race immediately, taking control of the game from the first actions and making himself dangerous above all with the runs on the left side and with the attacking combinations between Zapata and Okereke. For their part, Udinese appreciates that the opposing team is leading the charge and is preparing for a restart match, but the pressing of Cioffi’s men is disorderly and laborious. The reward for the grenade’s enterprising attitude arrived after 10 minutes: the returning Vojvoda brushes a ball over the head of Duvan Zapata, who escapes a not too confident marking by the equally returning Bijol and sends the ball behind Okoye. For Udinese it already seems to be the KO shot without even having started to try, even if the hook that really knocks the Bianconeri out comes in the 53rd minute when Vlasic finds the second and puts an end to his goal drought. Between the two goals, a move by Cioffi that has the same effect as attach electrical wires to a dead frogas in the proverbial American school experiment;
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The electric shock given by Cioffi is the entrance of Ezizibue in place of a perplexed Payero around half an hour of the first half, with the simultaneous centralization of Pereyra in the midfield position. In reality, with this move the Tuscan coach is gone to make up for a mistake he himself had made, that is, to distance Pereyra from the fulcrum of the game, at the same time losing his athleticism and ability to filter on the wing, thus being unable to build actions or stop those grenades on the left side. In the next fifteen minutes Udinese got back into the game, but the left wing was there Moby Dick of Cioffi today, who then replaced Ferreira with Kristensen always on that side and then the already replaced Ehizibue with Ebosele. A whirlwind of changes that certifies how easy it is to put Udinese in difficulty on certain aspects and how much of a problem it is to have a series of one-dimensional playersone good for defending but not for attacking, one physical but not of quality, one refined but embarrassed to defend, and so on.
Today’s match was also extremely didactic in showing how much it makes a difference to have a center forward like Duvan Zapata compared to someone like Lorenzo Lucca. Some numbers, in addition to the goal and assist recorded by the Colombian: 5 shots against 2, 46 balls touched against 26, 13 successful passes against 9, 5 aerial duels won against 2. Of course, Torino is a team that involves better in the his attackers play, but Zapata is a player capable, more often than not, of “doing it himself” and This is exactly what Udinese would needwhich bases large phases of its game on extemporaneous expressions of talent or physical power of individuals. We are not saying that Lucca is poor, unsuitable for Serie A or whatever – it would be false and ungenerous towards him – but it must also be recognized that in a structured team like Cioffi’s Udinese it is more of a worry than a resource to have a very effective attacker in terms of pure finishing but not very consistent when constructing opportunities and moving the team forward. Paradoxically, a player with a complicated relationship with goalscoring like Success, to say the least gives many more solutions to the Bianconeri;
This match demonstrated once again, if any were needed, that this Udinese cannot aspire to much more than the position they find themselves in and that there is a rather steep step to overcome in order to look at teams like Genoa, Monza and Turin itself as equals, which is instead relaunching itself from a European perspective. The Granata can finally try to get out of the swamp of the eternal mid-table, also thanks to a large dose of talent, between the already established one – Vlasic, for example – and the one in progress – Gineitis’ match today is notable. Udinese must instead resign themselves to fighting in the mud until the end of the season, remaining aware that they can put in at least more ambition and determination than today. During the week Cioffi had spoken of great pressure for his team when playing at home, but identified the boos – very frequent this season – from the public as a manifestation of love. And today both at the end of the first half and in the 90th minute there was a lot of love.
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2024-03-16 16:41:50
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