Udinese, appointment in Verona to try to make the leap in quality

Behind the classification continues to run, it is important to move further away. Complicated away match, but the bianconeri’s calendar is truly ruthless

UDINE. On the one hand the desirable high jump, the possibility of looking upstairs, on the other the cursed ranking down there, faster and faster, “mutant”, last time thanks to Cagliari, last night after the advance of Turin, thanks to a Venice that has – at least temporarily – abandoned the third last position which is back to just 7 points.

Here is the crossroads in front of Udinese before the away match in Verona, a difficult but not prohibitive game, a bit like the one with Toro who, without bringing up good luck (which was in any case one of the ingredients of the last Sunday), the bianconeri have been able to convert in three points, hard currency at this moment of the season.

It is difficult to imagine that the struggle not to retreat will end within a few days. For a variety of reasons. The first: behind Udinese which currently occupies 14th place, there are also clubs of a certain depth and blazon.

Genoa, for example: it is the penultimate that, after the change of ownership, has an ambitious growth program. Okay, he looks terribly like Parma who then, last year, also slipped into Serie B, in spite of the American capitals.

But now the aforementioned Cagliari is in dire straits, despite the investments of President Giulini, and a little further up we find Sampdoria.

In a nutshell it is unthinkable that these realities that are jostling with Spezia and Venice, without forgetting the Cinderella Salernitana who has recently changed “handle”, go to savings, using the slingbar, making a few points here and there.

No, quite another story, Pino Daniele’s blues guitar would have told you. Also because there is a second aspect to take into account as we look to the future of Udinese.

After Verona in the Juventus menu there will be Lazio and Milan, then a direct clash with a pursuer, Sampdoria, then Rome and Naples from here to the next stop, that of the end of March, when our national team will know if it will return to play a World.

Without too many words: this is an opportunity not to be missed to avoid regrets when squeezing a single point will be even more complicated. Today Deulofeu is back at your disposal.

In December, with the arrival of Cioffi on the bench in place of Gotti, he helped to give a “break”. In January, also thanks to the situation that was created with the many positivity at Covid, he passed away.

In Verona he could pair up in 3-5-2 with Beto, another who has not always been convincing in recent weeks. Arslan will be missing in midfield, Pereyra is forging ahead to return an important piece for Cioffi and then Jajalo could remain at the center of the department with Walace and Makengo at his sides.

To confirm the defensive structure which could be the one that stopped Torino (therefore Becao, Marì and Zeegelaar owners with Nuytinck and Perez still on the bench), while Molina on the right takes the lead over Soppy to enter the starting eleven, where there will always be room for Udogie.