(a)

The first thing to do is to strengthen the defence, which is something that Gasperini has repeatedly emphasized.

In last season's Serie A, Udinese and ** were both known for their poor defense, Udinese conceded 59 goals ranked fourth among all teams conceded, ** worse than Udinese, conceded 61 goals, tied with relegated team Livorno for second place, more than they conceded, only relegated team Siena conceded 67 goals.

It was the worst defensive team among the teams that were not relegated last season, and the second worst defensive team, and the teams that were worse defensively than them were relegated.

First of all, we must do a good job of our own defense, and we must find a way to tear through the opponent's defense, especially after Chen Zhuo in the tactical offensive system, Gasperini is more eager to win games on these middle and lower teams to achieve enough relegation points, and then give ** a chance to get closer to the European arena.

In terms of attack, Udinese and ** are also almost the same, with 57 goals scored last season and 54 by Udinese, only a difference of three.

The total number of goals scored is 3 more than Udinese, the total number of goals conceded is 2 more than Udinese, and the final points, ** are 9 points more than Udinese, ranking 9th and 15th Udinese, in terms of goal scoring efficiency, ** is clearly better than Udinese.

Comparing the similarities, both teams are home to the Dragons, with Udinese winning 10, drawing 5 and losing 4 of their 19 home games last season, earning 35 points from a total of 44, while their remaining 9 points were won in 19 away games, with Udinese winning 1, drawing 6 and losing 12 away games throughout the season.

In terms of "away bugs", ** is not much better than Udinese, they won 3 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses in 19 away games last season and got 13 points, like Udinese, they are the teams with the lowest away results in Serie A.

All kinds of data are there, even though Chen Zhuo's performance in the warm-up game is eye-catching, but European bookmakers still mercilessly look down on the ** team.

(b)

Di Natale, who was born in 1977, is 33 years old, and Di Natale, who only played in Serie A at the age of 25, is even more "late bloomer" than Lucatoni, born in October 1977, Di Natale is only 5 months younger than Lucatoni, just last season, about to turn 33 years old before he really broke out, and won his first Serie A Golden Boot award, and at this time, many players have retired with honor.

This season is Di Natale's seventh season with Udinese, and the 33-year-old is the captain of the Udinese team and the most loved and popular star of the team and the city.

The top scorer in Serie A last season contributed 29 goals, accounting for more than half of the 54 goals scored by Udinese last season, and the 29 goals this season are also the closest to Lucatoni's 31 single-league goals record in the past 30 years, seven more than Milito, who is in second place.

The alignment of a character like this must be Chen Zhuo, which is why Chen Zhuo will be regarded as an "enemy" in every city except for his own team.

(c)

Although Chen Zhuo carefully analyzed the late Serie A top scorer last season before the game, but when it came to the real face-to-face defense, Chen Zhuo found that Di Natale's speed and flexibility were much faster than in the TV video!

Today's ** formation is between 4-3-3 and 3-4-3, it looks like a 3-1-3-3 four lines, of which the "1" in the space of 10 meters between the back line and the midfield line is Chen Zhuo, he is "3-1-3-3" when he marks and scrambles in the middle, when he retreats to the back line is "4-3-3", and when he goes to the midfield, it is "3-4-3".

Ruud van Nistelrooy, who has just arrived on loan, is on the bench for this game, and whether he will replace Lucatoni or will star alongside Lulatoni is also a highlight of this game.

Di Natale's ability to receive the ball and dribble is one of the best in the entire Apennine Peninsula, this kind of close contact, Chen Zhuo is even more deeply felt, the striker's ball control, dribbling and passing jishu, compared to Ambrosini and Pirlo are not inferior, and even with the peak of Baggio have a fight, no wonder Baggio once commented that Di Natale is the most Haode player in the Italian team.

In the face of Chen Zhuo's block, Di Natale calmly pulled to the side, and then skillfully passed to his teammates in the back row to form a cooperation. Passing Jishu is also one of Di Natale's stunts, Di Natale, who broke out in the small universe last season, was not unknown in the previous 6 Serie A seasons, but is known as an assist-type striker, in the 7 Serie A seasons Di Natale has played, he has contributed a total of more than 80 assists, and almost every year is a "double-double" of goals and assists in statistics.

Chen Zhuo didn't dare to be careless, he didn't rush to think about making a frontal steal on Di Natale, but through standing and running, he squeezed Di Natale from the middle to the sideline, and at the same time did not give him the opportunity to get rid of it easily, and did not let him easily break through into the threatening "hinterland", and then his teammates cooperated to implement the pressing and siege, as well as the tackle on the corresponding player after Di Natale kicked out, and disrupted Udinese's attack.

(iv)

This is the second time that Udinese coach Guidolin has taken charge of the team this season, and in several warm-up games this season, Guidolin has used more dense defensive tactics.

In order to avoid gaps in defence, only two players roamed in the opposition half for more than 80 minutes of the 90 minutes, and in the only 10 minutes of counter-attack, the Udinese team invested the most players with four players, which means that Guidolin has pushed the defense to the limit.

These two players who are cruising in the ** team, in addition to Di Natale, there is also a player who is Chilean striker Sanchez, born in 1988, Alexis Sanchez is not yet 22 years old.

When this talented teenager was discovered by Udinese scouts, he was not yet 18 years old, when Udinese paid a transfer fee of only 2 million euros to the Chilean Colo Colo team, 4 years, and now Udinese's external offer is already 40 million euros, and Sanchez's annual salary has also been brought out by Barcelona to the level of 3 million euros, if nothing else, this is already a season of the Chilean young man in Udinese's Zuihou, maybe after the winter break, The 22-year-old is already wearing the jersey of a big team.

There are three defenders on the back line who are not involved in assists, 10 meters in front of them is a single midfielder, and 10 meters further there are two defensive midfielders, the three midfielders are divided into two defensive levels, they basically stop pushing forward near the halfway, and the huge half in front of them is all handed over to Di Natale and Sanchez, and the other two players are more cruising on the two wings.

Originally, in Gasperini's imagination, he was still a little worried about using "Veloso-Chen Zhuo-Ranocchia" to form a central axis defense chain to lock the "Di Natale-Sanchez" frontcourt combination, but he didn't expect Chen Zhuo to be at all at a loss for defensive speed players, and this "central axis defense chain" successfully froze Udinese's offensive combination.

On the Udinese side, due to the lack of effective support from teammates, Di Natale and Sanchez's several collaborations were destroyed by the best defensive system, and in the opening 15 minutes, Udinese tried to launch a long pass counterattack from the backfield three times, all of which were accurately judged by Chen Zhuo and made a steal!

(5)

It's just that Udinese's dense defensive formation of as many as 9 players huddled in the half is really difficult to deal with, and the attacks again and again are in vain, and they can't even get close to the threat area, and the scene looks very dull.

In this season's big plan, Gasperini's goal is to be in Europe, and the points required for European competition must be at least 55, preferably to 60 points, so Gasperini has made a detailed breakdown, the home team has no less than last season's 11 wins, 5 draws, 2 losses and 38 points, and the away team has to reach 7 wins and 1 draw, 6 wins and 4 draws, 5 wins and 7 draws compared to last season's 3 wins, 4 draws, 5 wins and 7 draws, in short, at least 22 league points.

In this breakdown, Gasperini will need to grab a lot of points at the start of the game, and then only when the Coppa Italia starts in December, and when the team has to make a trade-off due to injury or suspension, he will have the capital to make his choice more relaxed.

As a mid-table team like **, every win and every point they have to be carefully calculated, which is where Gasperini's ability lies, with 3 more goals scored and 2 more goals conceded than Udinese, 3 wins and 9 points more than Udinese, and only 4 points away from European competition.

In this game against Udinese, in Gasperini's jihua, it is necessary to get this three points, in terms of player strength, the "Di Natale-Sanchez" combination is the top forward combination in Serie A, but unfortunately there is a lack of midfield organization, if the pair is changed to their own ** team, Gasperini believes that he has the ability of the Champions League team!

More importantly, this is the second-to-last worst defense line in Serie A, although there is the pinching of the old coach Guidolin, but there is still a distance from the complete run-in, and it is the most realistic to grab points before their defensive transformation is completed!

(f)

Gasperini, who was on the field, kept sketching with a tactical board in his hand, Cristo and Raphinha pulled from the left and right, Scully and Palacio ran straight from the two ribs, and Lucatoni served as the ferry of the tactical support point in the middle, and hit a wall in front of Udinese's "iron bucket formation", until the full game was 60 minutes, and the scene did not open.

Gasperini was the first to make a tactical change, replacing both Scully and Palacio with 19-year-old Zucurini and 34-year-old Ruud van Nistelrooy.