Gotti goes hunting for the couple to take a step forward

Walace, Arslan, Makengo and Jajalo: the technician needs reliability to advance Pereyra behind Beto or insert Samardzic

UDINE. There is a department that more than any other has been turned and turned by Luca Gotti: the midfield. If the defense is based on the Becao-Nuytinck-Samir trio, if in attack Beto has already become a point of reference and the ailments of Pussetto, Deulofeu and Success have often dictated the rotation of the Contarina technician, in the median there is not yet the “right chemistry”, as Americans like to say when they talk about their sports – from basketball to ice hockey – and point the index on the qualities of individuals who are unable to combine with each other within a team.

There is a reason: the midfield last summer lost their big game, Rodrigo De Paul and basically Udinese chose to focus on a young man to flesh out the department, Lazar Samardzic, at the same time asking for more leadership from Pereyra. and a qualitative leap in Makengo. De Paul guaranteed his contribution in terms of coverage, in the restarts, even in the control room – if necessary -, not only in the implementation phase, which is why the legacy was divided: his responsibilities are now in the hands of several midfielders. .

The most important investiture (but one could also say the investment in terms of trust) Gotti made with Walace. Scrolling through the minutes of the bianconeri employed in the first 11 days of this championship we discover that the Brazilian has always been there in the middle and that only with Inter last Sunday he was not in the starting eleven. He guarantees physique and geometry, the trouble is that he often falls asleep, as can be confirmed by Sampdoria and Verona who used two of his amnesia to score as many goals.

He would need a median next to him able to guarantee reliability: in dirty words filter and tactical quality. Here, to complete the mosaic of the midfield he sometimes used Makengo, sometimes Arslan, while Jajalo is seen more as a change of Walace. But Arslan is not physical enough, so much so that Gotti is almost always forced to change after the first hour of play, if he is deployed from the start. Makengo, on the other hand, still has too little personality, he uses only and exclusively the left hand and not even as an embroidery needle: despite this he seems to have surpassed the Turkish in Gotti’s hierarchies, so much so that the rumors of a farewell already in January of Arslan, whose contract expires next June.

Now, in addition to Basaksehir in Turkey, Cagliari is also giving us a thought, even if Udinese’s will in this regard is still to be understood, especially for a sale to what is a direct competitor in Serie A with Cagliari.

Beyond the transfer market, it is necessary to explain why the discussion was limited to a couple of midfielders, while Udinese used an odd midfield with the 3-5-2. The reason is linked to Gotti’s openings in terms of solutions. With two center-backs Pereyra could be moved behind Beto paired with Deulofeu for a 3-4-2-1.

Or you could review the 3-4-3 already tested with Atalanta. Without neglecting the option of a change of game system, because two would be needed in the middle in a 4-2-3-1, but also in a 4-4-2, modules that could also propose Samardzic in a more recurrent way. .