THE TACTICS. Gotti focuses on the surprise factor In defense Nuytinck will return to play the central
UDINE. The courage of choices is part of Luca Gotti’s management, and to prove it again, it is enough to rethink the sour Braaf proposed in Bergamo on Easter Saturday, in search of a surprise effect in its own way also packaged with the revival of Pereyra behind Llorente with Turin, when he had always tried two forwards during the week. On these assumptions it is reasonable to expect the “there is no two without three”, another choice in the name of courage that in Crotone could materialize with the ownership of Ilija Nestorovski in attack, the department where the technical exercises were particularly concentrated – yesterday’s tactics, with evidence also on finalization.
After the return of Nuytinck in the group, with the Dutch candidate to take back not only the post after the forfeit with Toro (fatigue) but also the one on the bridge at the center of the defense, and the probable choice of Arslan as central in the heart of the median, Gotti is in fact considering relaunching the 31-year-old Macedonian from the first minute, a choice that has already paid off in the past, considering that in the three times Nestorovski started in the starting line, Udinese scored seven points, starting right from 0-0 of the first leg to Friuli with Crotone, when Ilija joined Pussetto, then continuing with the 1-0 at Fiorentina (in which he scored the winning goal) and the 1-1 at San Siro with Milan. This time Pussetto will be missing – by the way, yesterday the Argentine returned for the first time to train on the fields after the injury to the cruciate ligament of his right knee last January 3 at Juve – but Gotti’s idea seems to be precisely that of wanting to look for that kind of characteristics from the attacking couple, which incidentally did not break through in the first leg. For this reason, another surprise cannot be excluded, which could lead to the choice of Forestieri, Braaf, or even Pereyra behind the Macedonian. Here, however, we are more in the field of hypotheses, even if the temptation to speed up the offensive maneuver is very present in Contarina’s technician, who could therefore accommodate the two weight points Llorente and Okaka, who appeared involved with Toro, on the bench.
Then there is another possibility and here the courage Gotti could prove it with the form, a 3-4-2-1 with two sub-strikers (Pereyra and Nestorovsky?) Behind Llorente or Okaka. In this case, the green light goes to Molina and Larsen on the flanks with De Paul and Arslan in the median. Gotti worked on this idea too, in a week in which confirmation was received that Deulofeu will be missing from now to the end. The Spaniard, who had a meniscus surgery on Wednesday in Barcelona, will return to Italy today.