Cioffi loses other pieces: in addition to Beto and Success, there will also be Marì

The season of the Spanish defender could be over. Tomorrow the coach must also stop Becao’s disqualification

UDINE. Making a virtue of necessity, which can also mean transforming the problem into an opportunity. Put it as you like, but since yesterday Gabriele Cioffi knows that in order to try to link his name to reaching the tenth place, he will also have to indulge his intuitions and his courage in order to fully explore the potential of the black and white squad.

HAMMERS

Because the week was a harbinger of bad news, particularly concentrated yesterday, when the final surrender of Beto and Isaac Success, ready for the new forfeit tomorrow and difficult to recover even for the last one in Salerno, given the respective problems with the flexors, was added also the problem to Pablo Marì. The Spanish central stopped in training, his injury is still being investigated by the medical staff, but it is likely that in the last 180 minutes of the championship Udinese will no longer be able to count on the central defensive player who has done so much since his arrival in January. This absence will be joined by that of the suspended Rodrigo Becao tomorrow, and it should be remembered that without him Udinese lost this season both in Empoli and in Turin with Juventus.

TEST BENCH

The count and the weight of the absences are therefore soon done, and if Udinese had already paid the duty at the Mapei Stadium, managing to make up only in part to the double forfeit in attack of the injured Beto and Success, it goes without saying that against Spezia the the task is even more difficult. It is here that Cioffi will have to show courage and foresight, conceiving the challenge against Spezia – but also the last one in Salerno – as an opportunity to draw energy and motivation from those who have found less space, but also as a test bed for those who Udinese still has a lot to prove. And what better time can there be than two games to try and win to sign a small business?

PRESENT AND FUTURE

This is how we could explain the probable ownership of Ilija Nestorovski in attack tomorrow, alongside Gerard Deulofeu. The 32-year-old Macedonian is at the farewell step after three seasons spent as a supporting player (5 goals in 60 games), his contract expiring on June 30 will not be renewed, but after the last convincing half hour played against Sassuolo he could be he is the most eager to seek his first goals of the season, also as an ideal greeting. Cioffi knows this well and his words last Saturday on the impact of the Mapei substitutes, combined with those 13 goals from the substitutes, already represent an answer to his questions. There is also no doubt about the reasons that Bram Nuytinck, a reliable captain who will have to replace Marì in the last two, will be able to guarantee, while it will be a test of perspective for Nehuen Perez. The Argentine could stay another year on loan from Atletico Madrid, and if that were the case he would be the main candidate for the “after Becao”, of which the preview could be broadcast tomorrow, perhaps together with the debut of a Filip Benkovic who will start again from the bench, while Marvin Zeegelaar will complete the defensive line on the left. In the median it will be up to Molina and Udogie on the lanes, with Pereyra favored in the relay with Samardzic, Walace and Makengo.