Udinese plays, Verona wins even so it’s a football lesson

Bianconeri distracted at the start, then take the game in hand, make 21 shots but do not score, while Tudor makes four

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Udinese at a football lesson. The teacher on duty is called Verona who wins 4-0, but plays little or nothing, collecting only the fruits of five shots in the mirror of the Juventus goal. After all, this is football, the main purpose of which is to put the ball between two poles that are 7.33 meters apart and under a 2.44 crossbar, a frame against which the bianconeri have slammed for a couple of times. without ever being able to hear the noise of the net after one of the 21 pitches made at the Bentegodi.

A haunted game one could say, but it also started badly, certainly not on the right foot if after two minutes Hellas was already ahead with Depaoli, with the first goal in Serie A, a sort of event. Yes, an event: at the level of sensations we can say that if this same game were played ten more times it would hardly end with four goals. And perhaps even this consideration is a football lesson, in its own way: there are not only patterns, values ​​on the pitch, a match is also a sum of episodes in which attitude, hunger, the famous hundredth of a second less that will allow you to arrive first on a loose ball are details that make the difference. These are things that, evidently, Igor Tudor was able to explain well to his team, if yesterday he managed to win big without shooting repeatedly towards Silvestri, if the doubling came shortly after the half hour with the former Barak, relentless when he sees black and white, like a bull in front of the cheesy cloak: in the first leg the goal from a penalty (rigorino) provoked and transformed, yesterday the insightful restart for the momentary 2-0. Just to say that he has become a great offensive midfielder, even his look is now the right one: toned body, hair no longer a surfer, a notable leap in quality since Udinese.

At half-time the summary of the match seems like a joke, one that does not make you laugh: 53% ball possession, 10 shots in total against the two (for as many goals) of Verona, two like the decisive saves of Montipò and with one crossbar. If at Marassi, against Genoa, Udinese had been literally sterile (zero conclusions in the mirror in 90 minutes) yesterday dominated the statistics without being able to conjugate the verb that expresses the essence of the game: to score.

The trend does not change even after the break, when Cioffi decides to remove Udogie to insert Soppy and move Molina to the left wing. Udinese reaches 12 conclusions towards the poles of the Veronese who remain nailed to the usual two shots of the first half, until a counterattack and they make three out of three. An action, that of the 3-0, facilitated by the tactical set-up that the bianconeri had chosen a few minutes earlier, after the graft of Beto in place of Jajalo to transform the usual initial 3-5-2 into a 3-4- 3. A module that does not change even when Success gives way to Pussetto. The best of Verona – incredible, but true – is Montipò who manages to double-throw his door, helped by yet another crossbar hit this time by Molina. A nightmare. A nightmare that continues with Tameze, certainly not a fine speaker of the noble art of football who at one point invents a right that removes the cobwebs from seven to Silvestri’s right. Four out of four.

Enter Lasagna. The thought in black and white could only be univocal at that point: if even “bomber scannone” makes one on the first pitch, then Igor Tudor really did the miracle. Nothing, not for all the Gialloblùs yesterday was really Sunday, he made the first wrong shot of an incredible match. A practical lesson in a day that provides consolation through the deeds of others: luckily, after the coup of Venice in Turin, Sampdoria lost and Cagliari only drew in Empoli, while there Genoa and Salernitana split a punticino that serves little to the ranking. –

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