Chapter 252 Excellent Condition

Over the weekend, Serie A, which has double matches a week, ushered in the sixth round of the league.

Since Udinese will go to Russia to challenge CSKA Moscow next week, Udinese will undergo a certain degree of rotation in this game.

In the 31st minute, Meunier, who happened to have his 28th birthday, scored with a push from behind. But Udinese scored two consecutive comebacks in the second half. In the 61st minute, Bruno made a long pass and Badu shot an offside shot to equalize. In the 85th minute, Di Natale passed the ball and Duvan Zapata scored 7 meters in front of the goal.

After six rounds, Udinese leads the way with an impressive record of six wins.

Behind them are Naples and Inter Milan, who both have a record of 5 wins, 1 loss and 15 points. Turin ranks fourth with 13 points. Another team, Sassuolo, which is still unbeaten, ranks fifth with a record of 3 wins and 3 draws. Following them are Roma, Chievo and Atalanta, who have 11 points together. These three teams are ranked sixth to eighth.

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Hey, where is Juventus?

After searching around, I finally saw a familiar name in the fourteenth place in the standings.

Yes, the Bianconeri are currently ranked fourteenth in the standings. Their record is 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, only 2 points above the relegation zone, and 13 points behind Udinese at the top of the list.

The Old Lady had a nightmare start to the season. They lost to Udinese at home in the first round, were beaten by Roma at the Stadio Olimpico in the second round, and Juventus, who had lost two consecutive games in the beginning, lost again in the third round. They were tied 1:1 at home by Chievo, and finally defeated Genoa 2:0 away in the fourth round, but were then beaten 1:1 by newly promoted Frosinone, and were beaten 2:1 by Napoli at the Maradona Stadium. beat.

Juventus only scored 5 points in the first 6 rounds, which also marked the worst start to the league since the 1969-1970 season.

With a net investment of more than 75 million euros this summer, Allegri led the Bianconeri to the worst start in the past 45 years.

In stark contrast, Udinese, which made a net profit of more than 75 million euros in the transfer market, has achieved six consecutive victories under the leadership of Guidolin.

For a time, Uncle Jon was pushed to the forefront of the media.

In the scorer list, Bruno, relying on his four goals this round, ranks first in the Serie A scorer list with 7 goals. The second place is Higuain, who plays for Naples. It's 5.

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On the last night of September, Udinese went to Moscow, Russia to challenge CSKA Moscow.

This is the second round of the Champions League group stage.

This is the sixth game Udinese has played in the past 18 days!

A consecutive week of double matches has made the entire Udinese team extremely tired. Although Guidolin has been working hard to arrange the rotation of Udinese players, the thin lineup makes it difficult for Udinese to cope with the intensity of the game.

In addition, the cold weather in Russia also made Udinese players very uncomfortable.

When the game started, the temperature in Moscow had dropped to only 5 degrees!

Coming from warm Italy to cold Russia, Udinese players were a little timid.

After a fierce battle, Udinese still lost with a score of 2:3, suffering their first defeat of the new season.

In another game that started at the same time in Group B, the Red Devils Manchester United defeated Wolfsburg 2:1 at home.

Group B also shows the nature of a death group. After 2 rounds, the four teams have a record of 1 win, 1 loss and 3 points. Udinese continues to rank first with a goal difference, and Moscow CSKA and PSV both have a goal difference of 0, ranking second and third respectively. Manchester United is at the bottom of the group with a goal difference of -1.

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Over the weekend, in the seventh round of Serie A, Udinese faced Genoa at the Stadio Friuli.

Moyes' team has performed very strangely this season, that is, they always play poorly on the road, but perform very bravely at home. This has to be said to be a strange phenomenon at the start of the Serie A season.

The 0:1 loss to Palermo, the 0:1 loss to Fiorentina, and the 0:2 loss to Lazio all occurred on the road.

At home, they defeated Verona 2:0, AC Milan 1:0, but lost 0:2 to Juventus, who had been leaking from all sides since the start of the season, giving warmth to the embattled Bianconeri... Well , is the only victory.

This has to be said to be a very strange thing.

Under such a poor performance, Genoa, which performed very well last season, is currently ranked 13th in Serie A, 1 point more than Juventus, the only team to defeat them.

Genoa coach Gasperini said before the game that Genoa had good memories at the Friuli Stadium last season, and he also hopes that the team can get out of the quagmire with this away game at the Friuli Stadium.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the game started, their team suffered a blow from Udinese.

Returning from the cold Russia to the warm Italy, the Udinese team immediately returned to their heroic state and suppressed Genoa from the beginning.

Only three minutes into the game, Bruno counterattacked with the ball. Faced with the double-teaming of Genoa's four defensive players, he still had no fear. In the penalty area, Na calmly kicked the ball into the goal guarded by Lamanna, opening the scoring for Udinese.

Then the two teams fell into a stalemate, and Genoa retreated across the board.

Until the 59th minute of the second half, Itura made a direct pass from midfield. After Cancelo quickly inserted it from the side, he suddenly passed the ball back. Bruno ran out of the gap and calmly pushed the shot without any defense. 2:0.

Just three minutes later, Di Natale dribbled the ball straight into the middle and passed it diagonally into the penalty area to Taylor. The latter blocked the Genoa center defender with his body and tried to rush towards the goal with the ball, but suddenly passed the ball backwards. .

Behind him, unguarded Bruno stepped in again and calmly hit the volley, 3:0!

"hat trick!"

"Another hat-trick!"

"This is Bruno's third hat-trick of the season!"

"It's really unbelievable. Udinese went crazy and Bruno also showed his amazing scoring ability."

"Three goals, this is Bruno's tenth goal in Serie A this season!"

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Bruno is undoubtedly in an excellent stage.

After scoring a hat trick, he almost shot through Genoa's goal from long range, but Lamanna performed very well this time and saved the ball steadily, thus avoiding the crisis of scoring.

But then, Cancelo made a pass from the left. Bruno calmly grabbed the spot in the penalty area and hit the shot from close range. However, the referee called a foul on Di Natale, thinking that the Udinese captain had a foul on the right side of the goal. A suspected foul action attracted unanimous protests from Udinese players, and Di Natale also believed that he did not commit a foul.

Unfortunately, the referee upheld his decision, and in the end Bruno's second four-goal masterpiece of the season was blown away by the referee.

In the 71st minute of the game, Udinese finally ushered in their fourth goal. During Udinese's quick counterattack, Bruno distributed the ball to the right. Felipe, the starting right back of the game, passed the ball. In the game, Di Natale poked the ball into Genoa's goal in front of the goal line.

Genoa pulled one back in the 76th minute of the game. At that time, Udinese defender Danilo fouled in the penalty area and gave his opponent a penalty kick. Petty took the penalty and scored a face-saving goal for Genoa.

In the end, Udinese defeated Genoa 4:1 at home, avenging their loss at home last season.

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After playing against Genoa, European football ushered in the second international match day of the season, and Bruno also returned to the Portuguese national team.

During the two-week international match day, the Portuguese national team will usher in two group matches of the European Cup qualifiers, which are also the last two rounds of the European Cup qualifiers.

Since the Portuguese national team has already qualified two rounds in advance, these two group matches are actually of little significance, but Santos has no intention of letting go in the game.

On October 8, Portugal defeated Denmark 1:0 at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon, which was in desperate need of a victory.

The game was very tense, and the score of 0:0 remained until the second minute of injury time.

Seeing that the game was about to end, Portugal got another corner kick. Bruno took a corner kick and Veloso scored with a powerful header from outside the edge of the penalty area.

Three days later, Portugal visited Serbia. After 90 minutes of fierce battle, Portugal defeated Serbia 2:1. Bruno and Nani scored, and Kolarov and Matic, who played in the Premier League, were sent off.

At this point, the European Cup qualifying group stage matches are all over. Portugal's eight consecutive wins have undoubtedly qualified first in the group, while Albania unexpectedly defeated Denmark and finished second in Group I, gaining another qualification. Denmark is ranked third and needs to go through the play-offs to qualify for the main draw.

As for Serbia, which was originally very promising, it performed very poorly. It only scored 7 points with 2 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses, and was eliminated in fourth place.

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After finishing the national team game, Bruno returned directly from Serbia to Udine.

As the European Cup qualifying group stage comes to an end, major European leagues have begun to compete one after another.

With consecutive victories, Udinese has made an amazing start to the season with seven consecutive victories.

But just after the national team match day, Guidolin made adjustments to the team, and Bruno sat on the bench for the first time.

Starting from the Italian Super Cup on August 8, Bruno played 11 games on behalf of Udinese, and played almost 90 minutes in each game.

In addition, Bruno also played 4 games on behalf of the Portuguese national team and was also the main force in every game.

Playing 15 games in 70 days shows the intensity.

Although Bruno's physical condition is still very good, for the sake of the long-term consideration of the season, the Udinese coaching staff arranged for him to be a substitute for this game.

Unexpectedly, in the eighth round of Serie A, Udinese played Verona in the relegation zone away from home. After the first half, Udinese fell behind 0:1.