His first victory as Genoa coach came in the second match of the Vieira era. After the draw in the debut, here is also the joy of success for the Grifone, which is now on a positive streak of four games and thanks to the three points at the Bluenergy Stadium it also moves into a position in the standings that allows us to look at everything with greater serenity. A success also favored by the ingenuity of Udinese, who were left with ten men already in the 4th minute due to the direct red card given by Toure, and then collected the second Genoa goal (the advantage had instead been scored by Pinamonti) essentially making it alone, with Giannetti’s own goal.
In the analysis of Runjaic, Udinese coach, there is disappointment and bitterness for the hasty red card who put his team on an uphill road: “There is great disappointment, we wanted to be offensive with Lucca and Davis, with Ekkelenkamp, with Thauvin widened on the right. Yesterday we celebrated the anniversary of Udinese, tomorrow there is dinner of Christmas, we wanted to do well. But then the unthinkable happened, an immediate red card was unimaginable, you can’t train something like that. It’s the first time it’s happened to me in my career, it’s something very rare, I had to make decisions, I tried to stay calm by moving Karlstrom to the defense. Then we conceded an avoidable goal, a stupid goal we’ve already conceded this year. It’s not easy to be behind and with 10 men regardless of our quality Genoa played well, they were intelligent, but we managed to make ourselves dangerous, we weren’t able to recover the match, the boys gave everything but it wasn’t enough.”
Visiting coach Vieira, although satisfied, is quite honest in his post-match analysis following the first, delightful success in his new role: “I think we did well what we prepared in training. The red certainly changed the match a bit, but we continued to do as well as we thought during the week. For now the players seen against Cagliari are the ones I see as most ready.”