Blimey and we are getting worried about a 9 point gap with 5 to play.... I bet Martin Samuel is just getting his "the Pozzos modeal is a flop" article ready now.
Could be only 6 if Soton win their game in hand. Mind you 10 losses in a row ..... What has happened?
The stupid thing is, the Italian league outside the Top 3 is garbage. The Pozzo’s could probably get them back towards the top if they offloaded some of our cast-offs into them. Holebas... Capoue... Prodl... Britos... Zeegelaar... They can honestly have them all in return for Alex Meret.
What I find bizarre looking back, is that Vydra, Abdi, Angella, Forestieri, etc couldn't get in the Udinese team so were available as reserves to come over and help us. They must have had a hell of a team back then.
I've mentally written him off. If he can't make an impression at udinese or Malaga now, he won't be good enough for us. He's only 20 so there is time, but his development seems to have stalled.
Noooooooooo! Crotone have just gone 2-1 up against Udinese. Can you guess Crotone's goalscorer..? Davide Faraoni... Full time
The parallels between them and us this season is quite something. I see the man who consigned then to defeat today by scoring 4 minutes from time was a certain Davide Faraoni!
Udinese are in a "particularly complicated moment". https://www.football-italia.net/120324/udinese-take-24-hours-over-oddo I'm not sure where that ranks on the moment scale. Sounds bad though.
Andrea Stramaccioni? He was hired and fired by Udinese just 2 and a bit years ago. I expect Oddo to get sacked but I would be gobsmacked if they rehired Stramaccioni.
Udinese fans injuring stewards eh? Classy supporters. At least our mob of knuckle draggers have the class to threaten the players.
Lost to team who were 3rd botton so now 4 points clear with 4 games to go. And you'll never guess who got Crotone's winner ? 11 losses in a row ??
So with 57 minutes on the clock, it's currently 1-1 between Udinese and bottom-placed Benevento. Udinese's new manager Igor Tudor is at the helm, and to make matters interesting, Danilo Cataldi of Benevento has just been sent off. Today is the best chance Udinese have had in a long time for 3 points.