Chapter 75 Taking Di Natale's shirt (Growth 8)
Are you well? (Cossu)
I am, why wouldn't I be? (Usman)
You're desperate in a game we're dominating, you're simply tiring yourself unnecessarily by moving around and you're doing it a lot, it can't be considered just a lack of experience. (Cossu)
That's what I noticed too and maybe even they noticed. (Conti)
Well that's why I hear we won't have the January break and I'm trying to show as much service as I can to come home after the game against Inter and stay there for 2 weeks or more coming back after the new year. (Usman)
I understand, you don't need to despair so much, you're playing very well even if we had 2 defeats, your agent already spoke to the boss about it. (Conti)
She said? Why?
I don't know, but if you understand she didn't want to be asked about it so it could only be something that happened at her house and she can't talk about it. (Conti)
Something that happened at home. (Usman)
Don't think too much about it, if it was urgent she or her family would talk to you anyway and you'd get time off as you're on the coach's good list so just rest and focus on today in the end you'll find out when you get back home. (Conti)
Thanks.
The teams return to the field and the 2nd half begins with Sal giving the first touch to the ball, Usman dominates and passes to Cossu, Cossu drives the ball and tries to make the pass to Nainggolan who enters Udinese's field, but the ball hits in Barreto who simply dominates her and drives through the Cagliari field going to the left side of the field, he manages to attract the players and tries to pass the ball in the center to Pinzi, but the pass goes wrong stopping at the foot of Dessena, Dessena dominates the ball leads and plays to Camilleri, Camilleri makes the long pass forward to Sau, Sau tries to catch the ball, but it goes over him and stops at the foot of Ekstrand who hits the ball trying to dominate it and chases after it for letting it escape .
Sau chases the ball along with him and reaches it first to pass it to Dessena, Dessena simply lets it pass and it stops at Willians foot, Willians kicks the ball back at Ekstrand.
Ekstrand dominates and touches the ball on the left wing to Pereyra, Pereyra dominates the ball and tries to move forward driving down the wing, but he stops seeing Camilleri and drops the ball to Ekstrand, Ekstrand makes a save against Sau while trying to dominate the ball returned by Pereyra.
Managing to do the protection and catching the ball he touches it to Pinzi, the pass goes in the direction Pinzi was and he ends up moving to another place causing the ball to stay with Cossu, Cossu advances through the Udinese field leading the ball, being scored by Battocchio, when Cossu was caught, he passed the ball to Sau in front, Sau tried to drive the ball past Ekstrand, but lost to him one-on-one.
Ekstrand touches the ball to Betania, Betania dominates and kicks it away from the area, the ball lands in Cagliari's field where Ariaudo and Barreto fight for it in the air, Barreto wins by heading the ball to Di Natale, Di Natale touches the ball to Pinzi back.
Pinzi dominates and launches over the top to Di Natale, the pass comes out very strong and the ball is dominated by Pisano, Pisano turns his body leading the ball and tries to play it forward, but his pass stops at the foot of Di Natale, Di Natale does a pass to Pinzi on the left flank, but the ball is caught by Camilleri who kicks it away from Cagliari's half, the ball is dominated by Sau, Sau passes the ball to Usman in the center of the midfield.
Usman dominates the ball and drives it advancing over the Udinese field dribbling Battocchio and moving forward through the Udinese field, Usman continues driving the ball while being pursued by Battocchio, but he is unable to shoot away from him and Battocchio manages to take the ball in his foot from Usman hitting her, the ball is left for Dessena who was running after Usman and dominates the ball, Dessena drives the ball tries to dribble inside and cross, but Usman who was passing by him takes the ball and enters the area with it achieved break through Battocchio's defence.
Usman faces the goal and kicks the ball hard into the right corner of the goal at the top, the goalkeeper simply tries to jump and defend the ball when it was on the rise, but the ball goes too fast by him and goes into the goal.
Gooooooooooooool! from Cagliari Usman scores the 2nd goal of the game.
Udinese 0-2 Cagliari.
Usman runs across the field thinking of going to the corner line to celebrate with his fans, but stops and simply hugs his teammates.
Observing this, Ivo decides to take Usman out early, replacing him in the 63rd minute of the game.
Usman leaves and enters Nenê, Nenê claps Usman's palms and hugs him taking his place on the field to complete the mission to keep the victory for the team.
The game restarts with Barreto touching to Di Natale, Di Natale touching to Pinzi, Pinzi dominating and touching to Pereyra, Pereyra dominating and starting to run, driving the ball down the left side of the field past Nainggolan who tries to catch the ball from him.
Nainggolan manages to take down Pereyra, thus giving a foul to the Udinese team.
Pereyra takes the free-kick, sending the ball towards Di Natale who heads the ball passing it to Pinzi, Pinzi manages to put his foot down stopping the ball in the air and dominates it, Pinzi retreats leading the ball and passes it to Battocchio, Battocchio tries to advance leading but Cossu stops him hitting the ball, Pinzi chases the ball and touches it to Battocchio again.
Battocchio is again stopped by Cossu who manages to hit the ball, but this time the ball goes towards Pereyra who manages to dominate the ball and pretend to go down the side to touch Willians in the middle, Willians dominates the ball and looks around to know where he would make the pass, seeing that all his teammates were marked, he makes a throw over the top into the house.
The ball just isn't caught by anyone and goes out over the baseline.
With the ball leaving the bottom line, Udinese made a substitution, taking Pereyra and putting on Obobo.
Avramov restarts the game kicking the ball away, the ball is disputed by Cossu and Battocchio in the air, Battochio wins with a header towards the Cagliari field.
The ball is dominated by Di Natale who dominates and attracts Conti to mark him, when Conti falls on that move he touches the ball to Pinzi, Pinzi dominates the ball and continues to drive free until he touches the ball to Barreto who enters the area passing by Ariaudo and pulls the ball in with his right leg he finishes.
His shot goes towards the right side of the goal.
The Udinese team, seeing that they were managing to advance, now replaced Battocchio and put De Marcos on the field.
Avramov hits the ball away again and it falls towards Cossu who this time dispute Willians in the air and wins heading the ball forward sending it to Nenê, Nenê disputes with Betania, Betania wins and heads the ball to Cagliari's field in De Marcos who was disputing against Nainggolan, De Marcos manages to head the ball sending it to Barreto.
Barreto dominates the ball, drives backwards, bringing the marker around and makes a pass to De Marcos who passes advancing to the attack, De Marcos chases the ball, but it is intercepted by Camilleri who hits it in the chest, dribbling De Marcos to catch it, then dribbling De Marcos giving him a bath Camilleri heads the ball towards Udinese's field, but the ball stops close to Pinzi who chases and dominates it.
Pinzi dominates the ball and tries an overhead pass to De Marcos, the ball falls towards Astori who heads it away from the Cagliari area, the ball falls close to the midfield where it is dominated by Cossu, Cossu moves the ball back touching backwards, the ball passes by everyone and Astori chases it and catches it, Astori drives forward towards the attack and Di Natale tries to steal the ball from him and knocks him down, the referee doesn't give a damn he manages to catch the ball.
Judge was foul!! (Players and fans spoke)
The referee just didn't care and let the game roll.
Once again this happened, it seems like they are playing against us instead of being fair, have you noticed that if we manage to catch the ball and they fall down they are fouled, but if we are knocked down and then they catch the ball it's nothing? (Usman)
Calm down Usman sometimes it's like that, but we can't accuse if we can't take cards or worse we can be sued. (Ivo)
Di Natale touches the ball to Pinzi, Pinzi dominates the ball and drives towards the Cagliari goal, touches Di Natale who goes forward, Di Natale receives and passes the ball to Barreto who was close to entering the area alone as he was among the defenders of the Cagliari out of your sights.
Barreto receives the cool pass and finishes the ball in the goal.
Avramov defends in fright, sending the ball to his left on the bottom line, giving Udinese a corner.
With the ball out, Ivo decides to make a substitution to reinforce the defense by removing Pisano and adding Agostini.
Di Natale takes the corner sending the ball into the area, the ball is cleared from the area by Astori with a kick after it lands in the center of the six-foot area.
The ball kicked by Astori falls outside the area where Dessena manages to dominate it, having a dispute with Willians, Dessena puts it on the ground and ends up losing it with Willians hitting it.
Benatia who was close fought for the ball with Dessena who was still trying to dominate and won.
Benatia manages to get the ball past Dessena and tries to enter the area leading the ball, but he launches over to Barreto inside the area, the ball goes close to the bottom line where Barreto tries to finish it in the volley goal, even so all he does is send the ball into the net from the outside.
Avramov even tries to continue the game by sending the ball away with a strong kick, but the referee whistles right after the goal kick is taken.
With the end of the game Usman runs to the field and for the 2nd time in his career he asks for someone's shirt.
Hello sir Di Natale can we change the shirt? (Usman)
Di Natale looked at him in surprise and took off his shirt to switch with Usman.
Good luck kid. (Di Natale)
The game simply ended with Cagliari winning in numbers but losing possession of the ball which is incredible that Udinese didn't score, what we have to thank is Avramov, Ariaudo and Astori for managing to hold back Udinese's attack preventing them from scoring.
Statistics
Udinese 0 x 2 Cagliari
Kicks 3(1) x 6(4)
Free Kicks 1v1
Corner Kicks 1 x 1
Fouls 1 x 1
Ball possession 53% x 47%
Usman was already on the bus sleeping when he got his next raise.
Attack 79/99 Defense 40/99 Body Balance 79/99
Stamina 77/99 Top Speed 79/99 Acceleration 79/99 Agility 76/99
Responsiveness 74/99 Dribble accuracy 73/99 Dribble Speed 73/99 FK accuracy 64/99
Short Pass accuracy 68/99 S.Pass Speed 67/99 Long Pass accuracy 69/99 L.Pass Speed 70/99
Shot accuracy 75/99 Shot Power 79/99 Shot Techinque 73/99 Techinque 70/99
Swerve 63/99 Header 76/99 Jump 77/99 Aggression 87/99 Tenacity 80/99 Teamwork 70/99
Attack 79/99 Defense 40/99 Body Balance 79/99
Stamina 77/99 Top Speed 80/99 Acceleration 80/99 Agility 76/99
Responsiveness 74/99 Dribble accuracy 73/99 Dribble Speed 74/99 FK accuracy 64/99
Short Pass accuracy 68/99 S.Pass Speed 67/99 Long Pass accuracy 69/99 L.Pass Speed 70/99
Shot accuracy 76/99 Shot Power 80/99 Shot Techinque 74/99 Techinque 70/99
Swerve 63/99 Header 76/99 Jump 77/99 Aggression 87/99 Tenacity 80/99 Teamwork 70/99
SB G. Perico Other 24 Positions (-)
Nationality Italian
Annual Salary 400,000 Market Value 506,000
Height 183 Age 29 Stronger Foot Right
Attack 64/99 Defense 69/99 Body Balance 76/99
Stamina 79/99 Top Speed 75/99 Acceleration 71/99 Agility 71/99
Responsiveness 71/99 Dribble accuracy 68/99 Dribble Speed 71/99 FK accuracy 62/99
Short Pass accuracy 65/99 S.Pass Speed 66/99 Long Pass accuracy 69/99 L.Pass Speed 72/99
Shot accuracy 63/99 Shot Power 75/99 Shot Techinque 65/99 Techinque 67/99
Swerve 66/99 Header 73/99 Jump 76/99 Aggression 63/99 Tenacity 68/99 Teamwork 74/99
Form 6/8 Weak Foot Accuracy 5/8 Weak Foot Use 5/8 Injury A
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