Nationals, Udinese loses the comparison with Cagliari: an advantage for Cioffi

UDINE. Wednesday 23 March Udinese will resume training at Bruseschi, where Gabriele Cioffi’s technical staff will try to optimize the championship break in the best possible way, in order to re-present the Bianconeri with “good loads” in view of the final rush in a key to salvation.

The next few days, until the resumption scheduled for 3 April with Cagliari as a guest in Friuli, will therefore be used to work in peace on physical preparation, tactics, and to recover the players in view of the race to salvation that from the next round will not only offer the crossing at the Rizzi, but also the delicate advance on Saturday between Spezia and Venice with which the 31st round will open.

NATIONAL FACTOR

To get in the way, as a possible obstacle in the preparation, there are the summons, a factor that has often proved to be a conditioning factor in the past for many teams, especially at the restart of the championship, but which shouldn’t scare Udinese too much.

Cioffi, already struggling with the disqualification, confirmed on Tuesday 22nd by the sports judge, of Pablo Marì, and with the recoveries of Bram Nuytinck, Nehuen Perez and Isaac Success, will in fact have the advantage of having only three players in the national team, namely Nahuel Molina, Destiny Udogie and Lazar Samardzic, eight less than his colleague Walter Mazzarri who is missing 11 (including two from the youth sector), including the blues Joao Pedro and Alessio Cragno.

Expanding the comparison to all the other Serie A teams, Udinese is the team with fewer players in the championship, very far from the 14 national teams of Milan, 13 of Atalanta and 12 of Juventus, but also from 9 of Empoli and Genoa and from 8 in Spezia and Venice.

BIANCONERI COMMITMENTS

Here, therefore, is the advantage of Udinese and a Cioffi who will follow at a distance, overseas only Nahuel Molina, engaged in qualifying for Qatar 2022. Embalse’s winger is already under the orders of coach Lionel Scaloni and Albiceleste who , already qualified, she will face Venezuela on March 26 in Buenos Aires, and on the 30th she will then be Ecuador’s guest in Guadayaquil.

Two official matches, valid for qualifying for the 2023 European category, will also be played by the blue Destiny Udogie in the service of the Under 21 team who will be engaged on Friday against Montenegro in Podgorica, at 17.30, and then in Trieste with Bosnia , in the meeting at the Rocco on Tuesday, at 18.30.

Lazar Samardzic will play in the German under 20, on Thursday in Ascoli, in the match between Italy and Germany at 5.30 pm, valid for the 8 Nations Tournament, before the match at England next Tuesday.

INJURED

Going back to the long-distance confrontation with Cagliari, Cioffi’s advantage over Mazzarri is also on the injured front, given that in the Juventus home there is a decision towards the recovery of Nuytinck, Perez and Success, while Mazzarri will have more than one defection in view of Udine.

The Croatian midfielder Marko Rog has not played since December 2020 after the cruciate ligament injury, and Nahitan Nandez (medial collateral), Kevin Strootman (knee) and the Polish Sebastian Walukiewicz, suffering from the hip, will also be absent. All this, always waiting for the former grenade midfielder Daniele Baselli to negativize himself from Covid. –

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