Florian Thauvin is having an idyllic start to the season with Udinese. Narrowly saved last year at the end of a difficult season, the club from the south of Italy has started this one ideally and is leading Serie A. And the former Marseille player (2013-2015, then 2016-2021), trained at GF 38, is no stranger to this.
Starting at the forefront of the attack on Monday evening against Parma, the French striker was one of the key players in his team’s comeback. Trailing 2-0 at half-time, the Bianconeris began their comeback at the start of the second act thanks to a performance by Lorenzo Lucca.
Second and third goals in four matches
It was then the player trained in Grenoble who allowed the game to be completely reversed. First benefiting from a header from newcomer Davis to equalize in the empty net (68e), he then took advantage of the numerical inferiority of Gianluigi Buffon’s former club to give victory to Udinese, taking a shot pushed back by the opposing goalkeeper (78e) to give his team the victory (2-3).
A new success that allows his club to take sole possession of the Serie A leader’s chair after four days (10 points), with a one-point lead over Naples, and two over the Inter-Juventus-Torino trio. Voted man of the match and author of his second and third goals of the season in the league (the fourth in all competitions, for three assists), the French international (10 caps, 1 goal) greatly contributes to the cannon start of the season of a club that has not experienced Europe since the 2012/2013 season (eliminated in the round of 16 of the Europa League by the Czechs of Slovan Liberec).
