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Gabriele Cioffi
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"I expect a team at 200% because it is the only way to leave the field with the points we need to break away from the bottom of the table". Gabriele Cioffi said this in a press conference, presenting Monday night with Inter. Particularly favorable day for Udinese, having obtained two of the four victories in the championship at Juventus and Lazio. As for the lineup, there is an emergency in attack due to Lucca's disqualification.
"Success had a decent week of training - the coach recalled -, while Brenner will only return from Brazil tomorrow, after having had some family problems. Davis, on the other hand, has relaxed but is not ready to be brought even to the bench
. It is also possible to field Thauvin and Pereyra up front, with a team that will still have to be very short." An obligatory point about Samardzic who was about to join the Nerazzurri in the summer: "We need to see his growth path: when he arrived in Udine, fingers were pointed because he didn't work in the defensive phase; in my first adventure he didn't play much because of that. Now I see a very attentive player in the defensive phase, who wants to impress but is careful: I am convinced that he will soon carve out the space he deserves." In recent days the coach hoped to score a point with Inter, words that were interpreted as fearful. "
If I'm an Udinese player and I hear my coach say let's go and win against Inter, I know it's not very credible: victory against Inter can only happen when we start with the attitude of a team who fights to save himself and then amazes
." As for the opponents, Cioffi explained that "in light of the gap with the second, I think that the Champions League was a bit of the team's dream, so there is a setback, but already with Empoli I saw a team with the attitude right and that he wants to win the scudetto in the match against Milan." Closing by recalling the success of the Friulians in last year's match which ended 3-1: "You build performances and then they arise on their own, you can't ask to repeat something done in the past: everything is different: us, the interpreters and also the Inter. We only look forward."
Simone Inzaghi
INTER HERE -
The Scudetto countdown has started again. The victory against Empoli put 11 points between Inter and the Italian goal, points that the Nerazzurri want to gain as quickly as possible. Starting from tomorrow's trip to Udine, where
Simone Inzaghi's team will be the protagonist in the postponement on Monday and in which Lautaro and his teammates will also have the objective of bringing the gap back to 14 points from Milan
, victorious in Saturday's match against Lecce. Also to keep alive the dream of mathematically winning the Scudetto in the derby against the Rossoneri on April 22nd at San Siro. The Nerazzurri coach can rely on his team's numbers, given that they travel at a practically perfect pace on away matches. In the 14 matches played so far in the league away from the Meazza, in fact, Inter have achieved 12 victories, scoring 34 goals and conceding only 6, with a scoring average of 2.7 points per game. Statistics that confirm the impression of Inter's dominance this season, however pushed in the last few days above all by the defence, not only when there was a need to avoid conceding goals but also when there was a need to score them.
So decisive, for example, was Dimarco, who with the goal against Empoli equaled his best scoring season in Serie A (five goals in 2020/21 with Verona)
. On the other hand, after a full-throttle first part of the season, the duo formed by Thuram and Lautaro Martinez seems to have become stuck in recent weeks. The Frenchman has scored three goals in his last twelve championship matches and has not scored since 16 February when he opened the scoring against Salernitana, while Lautaro has scored four in his last eight matches and has not scored since the 2-0 against Atalanta 28 February (then ended 4-0).
On the other hand, Sanchez has made an impact, with two goals and three assists in the last six games in Serie A, while Arnautovic will also be seen again tomorrow in Udine, returning after the injury in Bologna which kept him out for a month. On the other hand, however, Inzaghi will have to do without Bastoni in Friuli, who was stopped by a muscle strain
. De Vrij and Cuadrado will also be missing, as they have not been called up but could return next week for the match against Cagliari at San Siro. To replace Bastoni, the coach should field Carlos Augusto together with Acerbi and Pavard in the defensive trio in front of Sommer, with Darmian (ahead of Dumfries) and Dimarco on the flanks. In midfield there will be the very starting Mkhitaryan, Calhanoglu and Barella, while in attack Inzaghi will confirm the Thuram-Lautaro pairing, looking for goals to break the deadlock.
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