In retreat on Christmas day, this is the response of the company, literally furious. After the fool. The lack of reaction. The unjustifiable attitude. And also the “choppy” statements by Kosta Runjaic during comments in Florence.
The dossier was ideally on Gino Pozzo’s desk on Monday. The Udinese “strategist” wanted to make the first move immediately, sending the group technical director Gianluca Nani to the press room of the Artemio Franchi stadium for a quick comment. Harsh and enlightening on the disappointment that reigns in the control room of the Juventus club. «Even with 10 players you can win, if you are a strong team that talks about important objectives. There are no excuses, we don’t hide and we are here because the club is present”, he declared among other things after the defeat against the Viola, a match practically not played after Okoye’s expulsion which left the team numerically inferior after 9 minutes.
The locker room was a victim of the personalities that emerged during the match at the Franchi
An alibi that the entire group – with a few exceptions – rode by rolling out a red carpet in front of the Fiorentina players who have literally maramalded, as demonstrated by the open hand – the “manita” – addressed by Parisi towards Bertola at the time of the substitution.
A surrender that also pushed Mariani’s poor refereeing into the background (if not third or fourth). – this is nothing new with Udinese on the pitch – who ignored a penalty and overlooked Ranieri’s sending-off foul in the second half. For the “cuckolded and beaten” series. It’s not fair, but when you present yourself like this on the pitch, displaying a submissive attitude, you can’t complain.
All ingredients that ended up in the bitter soup served on Sunday evening, with the matches against Lazio, Como and Turin on the horizon which would have become authentic direct clashes to get to smell the scent of that Europe that owner Gianpaolo Pozzo had placed on the highest step of dreams in view of Udinese’s 130th birthday in 2026.
A wish expressed by the first Zebretta fan on behalf of a people, the Juventus one, who were truly shocked by the performance of a locker room victim of personalismwhich also emerged during the Franchi match, where more than someone thought, between shouting and over the top dramas, of defending their own backyard instead of thinking about the good of the team. This is why, staying on topic, the company has moved from the carrot to the stick.
The die is cast. Udinese will spend the evening of the 25th in retreat and not at dinner with the family after the training sessions scheduled to prepare for the match against Lazio on Saturday.
