The hosts, a poor defense
Palermo occupy the penultimate place in the Italian first league hierarchy after 9 games played, with only six points. Weak link of the band coached by former player of CFR Cluj, Roberto de Zerbi, is without doubt a defense that broke down decisively by no less than 16 times this season. If for most bands, their land is a great asset for Sicilians, things are fixed vice versa. “Eagles” have only collected points this season in away games, while at home they lost every time in the 4 matches.
lame
Although ranked 16th in Serie A with just 10 points, Udinese can find a good excuse. Luigi Delneri’s students have met already this season started teams like Juve, Milan, Roma, Fiorentina, Lazio and finished a decent number of matches infernal. “Friulian bianconeri” took a last round of relief in home victory, 3-1 Pescara, emerging from a true deadlock after five games without success. The band from northeastern Italy wants to prove Thursday evening in Sicily, that only very hard in this program start to the season made it Udine to win in the bottom of the ranking.
direct meetings
In the last 10 direct confrontations between the two teams, Udinese won 4 times, Palermo has had 3 wins and 3 other dispute ended with one draw;
Last 4 draws between the two teams ended with the same score: 1-1;
Palermo have won their last three matches against Udinese, nemaipierzand in front of them in May 2013 (2-3);
Probable teams:
Palermo (3-4-2-1): Posavec- Vitiello, Goldaniga, Cionek- Rispoli, Gazzi, Henrique, Aleesami- Hiljiemark, Diamanti- Nestorovski
Absent: Gonzalez, Trajkovski, Rajkovic, Balogh, Andjelkovic (injured)
Coach: R. de Zerbi
Udinese (4-3-1-2): Karnezis- Widmer, Felipe Danilo, Samir- Fofana Kumsal, Badu- Paul- Zapata Thereau
Absent: Armero, Kone (injured)
Coach: L. Delneri