Udinese, the Cioffi cure works three points with 4 goals against Cagliari

After the draw with Milan, the coach legitimizes with a bang the investiture of the club that has removed the label of the “ferryman”

The Cioffi cure works. Four points have ended up in the lap of two races in the pocket of the deputy promoted to boss with the sacking of Luca Gotti after the stoppage in Empoli. Yesterday he took three all at once in Cagliari against one of the five teams that were behind him before kick-off. A direct clash, one could say, for a Udinese who has never lost against the opponents who chase her in the standings, when at the end of the first round there is only one day left which for the bianconeri will coincide with the arrival at the stadium on Tuesday. Friuli of the Salernitana cinderella.

A challenge that, beyond the words of confirmation arrived from the company that had every interest in removing the label of “ferryman” from the technician so that the shadow of an alibi on the part of the team could not materialize, will be faced by Cioffi to all intents and purposes head coach for merits earned on the field. A consideration that projects us towards the new year, net of sensational reversals with Salernitana, with the Florentine technician on the dashboard, when the “asymmetrical” calendar will offer Udinese Fiorentina, Atalanta and Juventus, not exactly a light menu for start over after the Christmas break.

All good material for reflection for the next few weeks, for the moment it is logical to focus on the Cagliari blitz, important because away the bianconeri had not won since 12 September in La Spezia, without forgetting that even at home Udinese had not managed to produce a lot, only one success in addition to the many draws, that of early November against Sassuolo. To break the Sardinia Arena – at the end seething with whistles and already well before the triple furious whistle against President Giulini – Cioffi once again focused on the dear old 3-5-2, the module that Gotti had tried to abandon to advantage of the “4” defense, however, losing in terms of tactical balance, with the seven goals conceded in the last two games of the old management confirmed. Against Milan and Cagliari, on the other hand, the deputy promoted head took only one, that of Ibrahimovic in full recovery, closing with the clean sheet yesterday in Cagliari. The defense Becao, Nuytinck and Samir will not be flawless when it comes to putting speed on the plate, but in terms of solidity, physical size, it does not fear comparisons on the right side of Serie A.

The rest was done by the outsiders who last night gave Udinese a high level performance, in coverage and counterattacks, a bit of the keystone if you play with the 3-5-2. So right from the start, so much so that thanks to Udogie’s promptness who steps in to provide Makengo with the 1-0 assist who, after four minutes, directed the match on a track pleasing to Cioffi who, however, did not has given up a sort of “patchy” pressing, brought high, up to the Cagliari area line, from time to time to undermine the fragile certainties of the team of a dead Mazzarri, without compass as well as without the beloved watch .

Udogie, then, has also put a hand on the doubling, since it is his descent that forces Cagliari to foul from the edge for a free kick wisely exploited from the right inside of Deulofeu who leaves with a “dead leaf” of old memory on the spot Cagno. The trio, on the other hand, is all from Molina who achieves a real Eurogol at the start of the second half with a first intention from the edge of the area on a rejected.

There Udinese rightly began to administer itself, facilitated by Cioffi who for his part started the swirl of changes a quarter of an hour from 90 ‘, shortly after the pearl of Deulofeu, a gesture “around” for the brace in the Beto’s ringing night. –