Udinese, 50 and the unknown center forward: Cioffi’s group and objectives

7 points are needed in three games, but Cioffi is struggling with the effective recovery of Beto (“We must be careful”) and the knockout of Success

UDINE. The championship train passed through Friuli without stopping, but Udinese’s reaction was all in all dignified for how it was able to put the opponents in difficulty, after a first half essentially given to Inter and characterized by an unusual frenzy and by some individual errors. Three games remain at Juventus home (of which only one at the Friuli stadium) to close the season and still that small-big goal in the head, “quota 50”, which is a distant dot, but still arithmetically reachable, even if it will involve closing from unbeaten in the championship and with at least one other away victory, given that 7 points are needed to reach a “wall” that Udinese hasn’t crossed since 2013. “We will fight until the end”, guaranteed Gabriele Cioffi before leaving the stadium the other night and in this regard yesterday an answer arrived.

The group

Gerard Deulofeu signed it through his social channels: “Let’s focus on the next match, knowing what needs to change compared to this one”, concluded the Juventus number 10 who, in terms of motivations, is certainly the thermometer of the air that you breathe. The arguments and the “confessions” are instead contained in the first part of the message delivered to the Friulian fans: «We wanted a more intense match from the first minute, but we allowed the opponents to take the lead easily. We reacted very well in the second half, but there is no time to think about it ». In short, the headlights are already focused on Saturday’s away match in Reggio Emilia to challenge Sassuolo.

The conditions

After an authentic tour de force of five matches in 16 days between regular calendar and recoveries (Empoli, Salernitana, Bologna, Fiorentina and Inter), Udinese finds itself in its hands 7 more points, some regrets and a situation in the infirmary to to monitor. Pereyra, who came out prematurely ten minutes from the end, does not worry, and then Makengo will return to midfield after the disqualification. In attack instead Beto, according to the words of Cioffi himself, bites the brake. “He wants to play, but we have to be careful,” said the coach of the Portuguese striker who suffered a muscle problem in the away match in Venice. The problem is that against Inter Success he came out after less than half an hour of play, thanks to a suspected strain in his left thigh (“Where he had already had an injury) which will require instrumental checks for a precise diagnosis: last time in March he jumped three games.