Bad story that of Monza. He loses when he doesn’t deserve to, or rather when even the draw was close. And he just can’t turn around a season that’s going badly. At the U-Power Stadium the 2 to 1 with which theUdinese achieved success is not a true result. Alexander Nesta and his players in fact would have deserved much more. They played better, created more, dominated the important phases of the match. However, all things are futile when the average score is one goal every 6 occasions (when it goes well) and bad luck – see Mota Carvalho’s crossbar – does the rest. Udinese’s cynicism completes a very dark picture: two real chances, Lucca and Bijol who pack up and take home. The points, the ones that matter, are made like this.
Pride It wasn’t enough to avoid defeat but Monza really needed a lot. Because in the most complicated moment he didn’t fall apart, he resisted the impact of the disadvantage and started all over again. As if nothing had happened, with courage and the spirit of someone who knows that to survive in football he must go beyond any limit. In any way, by any means. The attitude and also the football proposal are appreciable, because Monza played the match. In the middle of the pitch, beyond some youthful mistakes, Bianco and Bondo were very good at giving time, width and balance. Djuric and Caprari fought and banged at the front, with little trace of Daniel Maldini. A couple of ideas, some initiatives without too much conviction and long pauses. The momentary equalizer achieved by Georgios Kyriakopoulos was the right reward for Monza and for the left winger (one of the few certainties that Nesta can always focus on with his eyes closed), that of Jaka Bijol was a blow. From any point of view and which significantly accentuates a clear crisis of results. The ranking in the very basic positions may be short but if Monza scores very little, almost never wins and loses even when it doesn’t deserve it then everything becomes quite complicated even if the distances are – for the moment – small.