Despite only need a draw to go through, and despite two big game against Lazio and Juventus in the next 7 days, Udinese bring on almost full team to face Celtic. Only Doubai is considered as second team member who started. Abdi is not first team member, but the choice could be considered thinkable, as Floro Flores doesn't perform well recently.
Both teams played well in this game and deserved to go through to the knockout stages. Celtic was superb in the first half, exploited the weakness of Udinese defences. The goal itself is completely unfortunate for Udinese, but the movement of Samaras makes Udinese defenders worked really hard.
However, Udinese completely control the game in the second half, creating dozens of great chances. Di Natale didn't look sharp as he is always, wasted several one-on-one chances that could bring more relief at Udinese. But Di Natale is not the single culprit. Other players of Udinese also wasted several great chances to take the lead.
Poor final touch may be one of Udinese's great task to solve this season. Not only in this game, in several Serie A games, Udinese could had easily won in big scores, but many chances-wasting prevent it. Too much relying to Di Natale to score is one of the possible reason, but Udinese need to find other striker with world class finishing.
Final 5 minutes of this game was really a scare for Udinese. Even single could kill Udinese off the Europa League. Udinese defenders couldn't handle several corner kicks from Celtic. Handanovic was out of his position, but couldn't get the ball as well. This is may be a new task for Guidolin to handle.
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