A super Lecce crushes Udinese, 3-0 away and Runjaic at risk

A Lecce in deluxe format beats Udinese at home (3-0) and sends the Friulians to Hell.

Hell of a Bluenergy Stadium possessed by anger and hell of the standings, with a penultimate place after five consecutive defeats which inspires terror. The final score is a lie because the Salento players wasted at least as many clear opportunities to round up.

Runjaic launches Alaba from the first minute and, still orphaned by Zaniolo, relies on Chakvetadze and Ekkelenkamp to support Davis. Di Francesco responds with the trident of Geubbels, N'Dri and Fatah.

Udinese got off to a tough start and Lecce took advantage of it by finding the advantage from a corner in the 11th minute: Gallo's path to the kiss and Gaspar towered over everyone, going over the top with arrogance and freezing the Bluenergy stadium. Davis tries to rebalance the match, but Falcone takes away the moment with his fingertips with a strike from a few steps away. Second corner and the Salento team's second goal in the 33rd minute: Gaspar stands out again and makes the tower for Tiago Gabriel, whose header ends up on the shoulder of N'Dri who knocks out Okoye. Udinese are on the ropes and two minutes later Fatah, at the end of a maneuvered counterattack, chipped the crossbar.

The Friulians are in confusion but Lecce doesn't take advantage of it: in the 39th minute Coulibaly flies away but his assist for Geubbels, only to be placed at the bottom of the bag, is intercepted by Alaba with a prodigious slide. On this occasion the Ivorian was injured and was replaced by Kaba. Before the end of the half there were still two huge opportunities for Geubbels: the first came from a pinball in the area, in which Okoye was reactive after an awkward clearance. In the 47th minute the French center forward devours the trio: only in front of the Juventus goalkeeper does he widen the ball too much and send it to the back.

Runjaic leaves the totem Alaba (inside Palma), the booked Kamara (Arizala) and Zarraga in the locker room, inserting Piotrowski who has just obtained eligibility from CONI after surgery for arrhythmia. The guests wasted the impossible: in the 10th minute NìDri left Ebosse on the spot and fed Geubbels, who instead of advancing all alone towards Okoye finished weakly into the goalkeeper's mouth.

At 15' the possible turning point: Arizala catches Piotrowski who passes it into the net, but after a couple of minutes of reviews, the VAR cancels it for offside.

The festival of Geubbels' errors is endless: in the 20th minute Piotrowski loses a bloody ball and the French attacker flies towards goal, but when he finishes with his right foot Okoye pulls off a prodigious save that keeps his team still in the game. Faced with so much inaccuracy, even Di Francesco's patience runs out: out is the wasteful French striker and in is Esteban. Runjaic tries with Unai Gomez and Zanoli. In the 40th minute it was the post that saved Udinese following a conclusion from Monteiro (who had just come on for N'Dri) for yet another maneuvered counterattack which ended with one player alone in front of the goalkeeper.

Sixty seconds pass and the game finally ends on ice: Siebert, who had also been on the pitch for a few minutes, flies to the right and lets a right winger go into the top corner. For Udinese there will be hours of reflection: Runjaic is at risk of being sacked, also because Udinese's next two guests will be Milan and Roma.