UDINE. And now let’s face it: it will be a pleasure, stimulating, challenging, but not impossible to face with your head held high, and an adequately filled ranking, the triptych arriving with Spalletti, Mourinho and Vlahovic, that is Naples, Rome, Fiorentina.
It had been years since Udinese hadn’t started the championship in such a strong way, perhaps it hadn’t happened since the distant 2011-2012 championship, it was Guidolin.
And the fact that the bianconeri started off on the right foot after the millionaire sales of the totem De Paul and goalkeeper Musso is even more positive.
In these first three games the team has shown that it is there technically, physically and above all in character. And, the test came on Sunday 12 September, after several seasons also technically valid and hungry for success players enter from the bench, such as Beto and the German Samardzic author of the final pearl.
Everything nice? For now, yes, because even in the hard moment of Spezia, when in the final the hosts had begun to raise the engine revs using a gasping opponent especially in midfield, the compactness of the team and the prowess of two singles rose to the chair.
Yes, because if Udinese won it also owes it to the numbers of their goalkeeper Silvestri and to Nuytinck’s save on the line, just before the German goal. It is a defeated goalkeeper intervention that is essentially worth a goal.
The embrace between goalkeeper and captain, immediately after that decisive action, certifies, because the body language of the players on the pitch has always been a perfect indicator of what are and can be the results of a team, such as that of Gotti is a nice group.
Perfectible, God forbid, but team. Which will be played and how the next three games. How long had Udinese not done it with this ranking? –