The bianconeri like them in terms of dribbling and play but the defense makes many mistakes, the Austrians thank them
UDINE. It’s football in the summer and therefore woe to take it too seriously, but Udinese seen at work on Wednesday 28 July with Sturm Graz, a formation of the Austrian Bundesliga, already with a championship game in their legs, makes us think. In some ways it was a photocopy of last year’s team. Apart from the first ten minutes, the bianconeri liked it in terms of dribbling but they achieved too little compared to what was created while behind they conceded three goals and conceded four shots on goal. Do you remember what Gotti said a year ago? We need to improve in the two penalty areas. Precisely.
Of course, it’s summer football and therefore you have to make all the faults of the case to what we have seen on the field, but the three goals conceded cry out for revenge. The first: Matos let his opponent return too easily towards the center without anyone doubling: then Kiteishvili good at drawing the opposite corner even if perhaps Silvestri could do something more. The second: De Maio’s senseless back pass, Yeboah, a not bad center forward, thanks him and puts the ball under the crossbar with his left foot. The third: on a cross from the left Makengo, until then convincing in the unusual role of left-back, decides to play volleyball: penalty and 3-2 for the Austrians.
Not that the result was important, however, since Udinese had managed to get back on top after being undeservedly under two goals, it always annoys you to lose when you have held the ball in your hand for a long time creating at least six clean scoring. And in the balance, let’s also put the two penalties denied to the bianconeri by the very home referee Krassnitzer, one of which on Matos, really evident.
Gotti, who had to give up Becao and Deulofeu, drew the team in both halves with a 3-5-2. Arslan went to fill the role that was De Paul (but nothing compares with the Argentine, please) and thanks to the movement of the two strikers, Pussetto and Cristo Gonzalez, and with the classic ball inside-ball out scheme he often found spaces on the outside lanes. After the 1-0 goal, first Pereyra (24 ‘) and then Pussetto (28’) they ate the draw by kicking the goalkeeper. In the middle the aforementioned penalty denied to Matos and then in the 38th minute De Maio’s assist to Yeboah for a 2-0 liar which Pussetto remedied at the end with a right-footed turn that the Argentine built with a nice fake.
In the second half, Udinese always played the match with Padelli who did not suffer even a shot on goal. The Friulians, on the other hand, in addition to Geyrhofer’s own goal, created two other counterattacks that were not materialized due to the last pass. Moral? Considering the difference in conditions, this test is certainly positive, but the antennas have to be pulled up and from the market it is good that three quality pieces arrive, one for each department. If there are four, even better. –