Parma-Udinese 2-3: the Friulians recover from 2-0 and fly alone at the top of the table

In the championship without owners, up there there is theUdinese. And he couldn’t have chosen a more spectacular way to take command of a championship that hadn’t started so slowly for an eternity: coming back from 2-0 to 2-3 on Parma who had brightened the first few days and who had done terrible damage to Milan in the home garden.

“match report”

Thauvin and Runjaic’s Udinese

A magic that has a precedent 13 years ago: it was 2011, Totò Di Natale scored the goals and Francesco Guidolin put the ingredients together, and never mind if the first place lasted just three days, the tank continued to burn with ambition until finish line, which that team finished in third place behind Juve and Milan, gaining a place in the Champions League preliminaries. Today the alchemist of the new Friulian prodigy is called Kosta Runjaica German who didn’t know anyone in those parts, but who also beat Aston Villa in the Conference League with Legia Warsaw last season. While the number ten who drives the team is now a 31 year old Frenchman who ended up playing in Mexico, at Tigres, no later than two years ago. Florian Thauvin in Udine he rediscovered himself, that talent that had led him to be part of the world champion France in 2018. He scored the goals that sank Parma, overturning the match and the standings of Udinese, who in May with Cannavaro had saved herself on the last day, almost desperately.

Davis changes the game

Runjaic, in introducing himself, gave the impression of not knowing where he had reached by making imaginative proclamations: «When President Kennedy, in 1958, said that in ten years man would land on the Moon, no one believed him. In life we ​​can dream big.” If there is one thing he did in these first four days it was give plastic form to those words. By building a team that wasn’t even down by two goals on a complicated pitch like Tardini, it fell apart. On the contrary. And symbolic is the fact that Keinan Davisthe scorer of the saving goal in Frosinone last 26 May, is also the man who with his arrival changed the face of Udinese, while Lucca first and then Thauvin took her to heaven.

The scoreboard of Parma-Udinese

Parma 2 (2′ pt Del Prato, 43′ pt Bonny)

Udinese 3 (4′ st Lucca, 23′ st and 32′ st Thauvin)

Parma (4-2-3-1): Chichizola 5.5 — Delprato 6.5, Balogh 5 (43’st Camara sv), Circati 5.5, Coulibaly 5.5 — Sohm 6 (24’st Hernani 6), Bernabé 6.5 — Man 6.5 (24’st Almqvist 6), Cancellieri 6 (10′ st Keita 3), Mihaila 6.5 (43’st Hainaut sv) — Bonny 6.5. Annex Pecchia 5.5.

Udinese (3-5-1-1): Okoye 6 — Kristensen 5.5, Bijol 5.5, Giannetti 5 (1’st Kabasele 6) — Ehizibue 6, Lovric 5.5 (21’st Zarraga 6), Karlstrom 6.5, Payero 5.5 (1’st Ekkelenkamp 6), Kamara 6.5 — Thauvin 6. (41’st Brenner sv) — Lucca 6.5 (21’st Davis 6.5). Other. Runjaic 7.5.

Referee: Abyss 5.5.

Note: Keita sent off in the 28th minute. Giannetti, Ehizibue and Davis are booked.