Deulofeu agrees with Gotti: “Lost an opportunity”

Message on social media from the Catalan: “We still need to improve a lot” Then the injury: “A small blow to the ankle, we believe it is nothing serious”

UDINE

A game that started in a great way, with the assist to Pereyra for the first goal, and ended up in the infirmary, after a few minutes in the second half. Here is Gerard Deulofeu’s Sunday in Marassi which could also have turned into a black day if Udinese hadn’t grabbed the equalizer a few minutes from the end. “The point is not bad, but we still have to improve a lot”, said the Catalan on Instagram to photograph the last game before the second stop of the championship, a “flash” that overlaps that of Luca Gotti who in the post-match in the heat, he had praised the Bianconeri for their character, but he had also highlighted the errors, defined as “not from Serie A”, empty passes that had affected the result of a match that Udinese could have won, in light of the technical superiority emerged in more than a few phases of the match against Sampdoria. “We can’t let these opportunities slip away. The difference is made in every detail », wrote the Juventus number 10 trying to step into the role of the leader.

In short, if to someone the words of Deulofeu after Fiorentina had seemed in contrast with the ideas of Gotti, with particular reference to the tactical attitude, to that 4-2-3-1 that seems a module made especially for him and not yet the game system preferred by the Contarina coach, this time the Catalan wanted to sweep away any doubts about his harmony with Gotti.

Gotti who had explained the replacement of Deulofeu in Marassi by bringing up the memory of an old injury that would have alarmed, indeed “scared” the player. Already at the end of the first half, while the other players slipped into the tunnel of the locker room, Gerard had dropped in the middle of the field to take off his shoes and massage his right foot in particular. Questioned by the medical staff, the attacker had returned walking on the lawn in socks, to return regularly to the pitch for the start of the second half, only to last only five minutes before the substitution which, in the absence of Nacho Pussetto, launched in the scramble Tolgay Arslan, sent to warm up already in the interval together with Lazar Samardzic.

“I received a small blow to the ankle, but we believe it is nothing serious,” explained Deulofeu himself yesterday, decidedly optimistic.

There are no special checks on the right foot for the moment, we will wait for the pain to disappear naturally, as it should happen in order not to remember the injury that last December, in the match against Benevento before Christmas, put the 27-year-old out of the game. Catalan, a bone edema caused by a violent blow, a very painful stomp that led to about three weeks of stoppage, in January he blew four matches between the league and the Italian Cup. –