Venezia returns to winning ways, 2-1 against last-place Udinese who are in crisis

Venezia beat Udinese 2-1 with a performance of character, overtaking them and sadly leaving them in last place in the Serie A standings. Zanetti's treatment has not yet had an effect on the Friulians: their eighth knockout in the last nine matches. The break for the national teams at this point becomes providential to find the compass and seek the path to salvation. However, Nicola's treatment works for the lagoon residents who, supported by their public, collect three very important points in terms of salvation.

Nicola chooses Basic and Sohm as director, relaunching Yeboah alongside Adams. For his debut with Juventus, Zanetti brings Solet back in defense and proposes Zaniolo and Ekkelenkamp behind Davis. The first chance belongs to Venezia: in the 6th minute, thanks to a rebound, Hainaut finds himself alone in front of Okoye, but the conclusion is central and the goalkeeper blocks it with his feet. The lagoon players are more convinced and in the 20th minute Mazzocchi lets go a right-footed shot from the edge of the post which goes off the edge of the post. Udinese gradually conquered the field and in the 33rd minute a reactive Stankovic was needed to block a diagonal shot from Ekkelenkamp destined for the corner.

Two minutes later Davis ate away the visitors' lead, kicking the post two meters from the line but a dubious offside saved him from making a fool of himself. In the 41st minute Venezia came forward again: Mazzocchi's cross from the left, Okoye fired in an imprecise manner but Hainaut missed the volley. In the second half we start again without changes and with the guests in an offensive projection. In the 5th minute the great chance fell to Davis. The English center forward arrives only in front of Stankovic, prodigious in extending his leg hockey style and denying the goal. Once the danger was over, the hosts found the advantage: in the 8th minute, a throw-in action on the right and offload for the onrushing Basic who cooled Okoye with a left-footed shot from eleven metres. The reaction of the Bianconeri was vehement and in the 12th minute they found the equalizer with yet another own goal (the third in two home games) by the lagoon players: it was Moreno again, as with Inter, who deflected the ball into his own goal after a touch from Davis. Network validated after 3 minutes of consultations at VAR.

The match takes off and every action is an emotion. Thus, in the 20th minute, immediately after a curling shot from Ekkelenkamp, ​​the new orange-green advantage also arrived with a Eurogoal from Kike Perez who fired a left-footed torpedo into the top corner. The two coaches draw from the bench: Zanetti chooses the imagination of Chakvetadze (for Piotrowski) and Unai Gomez (for an alternating current Zaniolo), Nicola replaces the booked Mazzocchi with Haps. Udinese tries with the corners, but the pressure is sterile and does not produce any danger. In '95 the Penzo explodes with joy: for the first time since mid-August in the lagoon they are no longer last. For Nicola two victories in three home games and in the third he made the battleship Inter tremble.