A valuable point
Empoli continues its unbeaten run against direct competitors and manages to snatch a precious draw against Udinese. With tooth and nail, putting in a lot of self-denial and spirit of sacrifice, it is essential to continue the race to salvation. The Azzurri were in full emergency and despite this they had a good impact on the match, managing to control Udinese well in the first half. Then in the second half they were put on the ropes by Udinese who unleashed all their attacking potential to try to equalize.
An Udinese at times predominant
All in all it is therefore a draw that satisfies D’Aversa, even if the coach remarked that the team must be more practiced in offensive readings. He could have, with a little more clarity, found the doubling goal. However, the glass is necessarily half full: Empoli once again manages to bring with them an important brick, against a very dangerous and physically capable opponent. Udinese proved to be a square team, which was able to react to the disadvantage with great vehemence.
The group’s spirit of sacrifice
On the shields, once again, the Albanian central Ardian Ismajili, author of a great performance. But the entire defense played an attentive and competitively perfect match, managing to counteract the aerial incursions of the Udine attackers. Perhaps we could have expected something more from those who joined, but it seemed to us that Empoli paid a bit in the last week, marked by many injuries. Also for this reason, the overall performance of a group that is performing well despite all the difficulties must be highlighted.