The “Tucu”, De Paul’s orphan, left with the handbrake on but Gotti does not intend to do without his experience
UDINE. History, including football history, often has fun choosing its protagonists randomly, but if there is a player who can play his part on Sunday and help Udinese get out with the necessary points from Marassi, that player is Roberto Pereyra provided, however, that he revises what he is capable of. Because the “Tucu” seen so far at work does not stand up to the comparison with the recent past, although everyone will be ready for the obvious objection, arguing that at his side he lacks a “certain” De Paul, or the companion with whom he had formed a ‘magical alchemy with irrepressible effects, with a “participation in the goal” shot up by over 70%.
Objection accepted, of course, because at the state of the art, more than the captain’s armband that always gives him a bit more responsibility, Pereyra seems to be missing precisely who wore that armband. The duets with mutual assists on the edge of the area between him and “Don Rodrigo”, children of a natural and spontaneous understanding, miss him like bread and it shows, but they are the same ones that must not be missing at Udinese to whom Gotti is giving new plots with new performers.
It is precisely here that the good Pereyra must take his step, whose start had been with a bang in the Italian Cup against Ascoli, a game in which he gave the clear impression of being able to collect the charismatic, if not really technical, legacy of the diez . Two goals and an assist, on that happy evening when he seemed to magnetize every range of action of his teammates, had also shown the way to Gotti who could easily think of entrusting him with the keys to De Paul’s former office, in the role of mezzala on the center right. Instead, ready to go, with Juve and Venice, Pereyra is back in the version behind the tip, behind Pussetto.
Agree that in the past the Tucu has shown that they know how to do it, but last year there was always De Paul behind him. And last Sunday, in the trident of attacking midfielders deployed in the second half, it was strange to see Pereyra looking for the ball and a very secluded position on the right, with Pussetto in the center behind Beto.
The point is that not even in La Spezia he recorded, playing as a mezzala, and also in Rome. Gotti will have noticed the small problem (drop?), Who knows he can receive much more, even if it will be difficult to replicate the 5 goals and 8 assists of the last season. On the scoresheet there is only the penalty against Juve, a “zero” in the assist item, and only 7 balls recovered. It is not like him.
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