Juventus goes back to being Juventus, wins in Udine and starts again. Given the climate of the last few days and the home draw against Parma, the trip to Friuli could have turned out to be quite a trap. Instead, the reaction of the Lady (yesterday in yellow) arrived on time: race always in control, great application and fifth success in the championship. Nothing wonderful or unforgettable, mind you: but a signal was needed and a signal arrived.
In the end, despite the sensations of the day before, Thiago Motta still relies on Vlahovic and dusts off Kalulu alongside Gatti in defence, Udinese leaves Lucca sitting and asks Davis and Thauvin to attack as soon as possible. Juve are bad in the good sense of the term: they never take their foot back and the tackles in every area of the pitch are almost all theirs. The Friulians are struggling, Weah and Savona are up and down the right flank making it hunting territory, Thuram is physically overpowering and comes close to scoring after just a few minutes, but doesn’t hit the target (“I liked him very much, he drives the ball, and the whole team was good» Motta will say). There is also Yildiz, who as scheduled starts from the left to encourage the insertion of the central defenders: Thuram again – thanks him, wedges himself in the middle of the area and hits the far post with a left-footed conclusion which then ends up in the net after being carambola on Okoye’s back. Deserved advantage, even if Davis then tests Di Gregorio’s reflexes: the Friulian Bianconeri, however, appear light-footed to oppose an angry Lady who is hunting for the three points with the ferocity of the great team. Result: Udinese loses a ball in mid-field after a somewhat forced build-up from the bottom, Yildiz hits the post and Savona’s tap in, already on target in Verona, is the winner. In short, the result was put on ice even before reaching the halfway stage of the match: Davis then saw the 1-2 goal rightly canceled due to a push on Gatti, the crowd warmed up but the Bianconeri did not lose their composure despite having to retreat in some moments to contain the home team’s forcing. Thiago Motta thus obtains the answers he was looking for: defense once again armored after the disasters of the last few outings (in the final, Lucca still hits the crossbar with a header), Koopmeiners on the pitch as a starter (close to scoring, in added time) and also the rest scheduled for Vlahovic.
The move of Yildiz to the center of the attack, with Conceicaco and Weah on the wings, may also have represented a test for the future.
Now, head back to the Champions League with the away match at Lille: after the victory over Stuttgart, it will be necessary to resume the journey there too.
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