Fiorentina v Udinese; Clean Slate

By: slakas | February 5th, 2012

   

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Fiorentina Coach Delio Rossi stated he would start with a Tabula Rasa, or Blank Slate this week.

The Slammin’ Soul band from Oakland, California, known as Tower of Power said it best,
If i could get a clean slate baby, I believe I would wipe away all my mistakes.”

Fiorentina try to wipe the slate clean and inscribe some new memories today at frigid Stadio Artemio Franchi against high flying Udinese today.

Udi, occupying the lofty spot of Third Place in the league, has managed, since the winter break, 3 wins (Lecce, Catania and Catania) and 2 losses (Juve and Genoa). 12th place La Viola, in the same time frame, has 2 wins (Siena and Novara, 1 tie (Cagliari) and 1 loss (Lecce).

Following the Clean Slate theme, Rossi has included recently out of favor Forward Alessio Cerci, and dusted off long banished players, Marco Marchionni and Felipe. Now, it’s doubtful either of the latter see the pitch, probably not Cerci either, but it should signal to the squad that the coach is going to use whomever he has on the roster IF those players earn their time.

All that being said, the lineup should be the same as last week. Newcomer Amauri up front with our man Jojo, with the other newcomer Olivera not eligible, the midfield will probably be Pasqual, although Vargas could make an appearance, Lazzari or Salifu, Montolivo, Behrami and Cassani should fill out the midfield, with the, now, usual back line of Nastasic, Natali and Gamberini.

Weather could play a large factor, but maybe not as much as feared. It’s below zero (Celsius), but the strong winds that were expected have failed to materialize and there is no snow.

Fiorentina (probable): Boruc; Gamberini, Natali, Nastasic; Cassani, Behrami, Montolivo, Salifu, Pasqual; Amauri, Jovetic

Udinese (probable): Handanovic; Benatia, Ferronetti, Domizzi; Basta, Isla, Pazienza, Armero, Fernandes; Floro Flores, Di Natale

Some Related Fiorentina Posts:

• Novara 0-3 Fior; The Kids Are Alright
• Fior 2-1 Siena; Wind Of Change
• How to Tame A Flying Donkey: Chievo-Fiorentina
• A Tale of Two Tanques and The Delio Progress Report: Fiorentina-Atalanta
• Siena 0-0 Fior; All I Want For Christmas Is A New Midfield

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• Mike R |  February 5th, 2012 at 8:53 am

  
  
  

  ignore my comment

  

• Catalogue |  February 5th, 2012 at 8:54 am

  
  
  

  Yeah, we somehow keeps beating them no matter how good they are, we’re their weakness.

  Anyway, JoJo scored many, many penalties these days…

  

• Catalogue |  February 5th, 2012 at 8:55 am

  
  
  

  Wow they got one back? Don’t screw this, Fiorentina…

  

• Mike B |  February 5th, 2012 at 8:55 am

  
  
  

  3 points!!

  

• Mike B |  February 5th, 2012 at 8:56 am

  
  
  

  all top teams dropped points

  

• slakas |  February 5th, 2012 at 8:56 am

  
  
  

  WHEWWWWWWWW

  10th place

  

• Catalogue |  February 5th, 2012 at 8:56 am

  
  
  

  OK, 3 points.

  

• Mike R |  February 5th, 2012 at 8:56 am

  
  
  

  We are to Udinese what Lecce is to us

  

• aw |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:00 am

  
  
  

  Relief! They were probably a bit helped by the wind, but I think our midfield did a good second half, constantly breaking up Udi’s play. Behrami is incredibly important, although even I think he was a bit lucky not to get a card today. I also think Montolivo played rather well in the second half.

  

• Catalogue |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:01 am

  
  
  

  Be waiting for the review.

  

• kevandsarah |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:03 am

  
  
  

  Lovely 3 points… Boruc deserves a medal… great save to keep the heads up and keep us in the game. he won us 2 points easily…

  

• slakas |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:04 am

  
  
  

  @ parma sunday
  napoli at the franchi on FRIDAY
  make up @bologna on Tuesday
  @lazio on sunday

  tough stretch

  

• aw |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:06 am

  
  
  

  Do you realize we didn’t make ANY substitutions today? How often does that happen?

  

• kevandsarah |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:13 am

  
  
  

  We should see that as a chance to make up some ground on the top teams. Treateach one as a 6 pointer. will be tough though admittedly…

  

• Quattro stelle |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:48 am

  
  
  

  Funny aw, I would have happily sub’d Lazzari off and played a man down.

  

• slakas |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:49 am

  
  
  

  napoli have chelsea coming to visit 4 days after our match, could see a slapped together, distracted lineup.
  Napoli will have played an extra match, as well, as their snowed out rematch is the week prior.

  I think the extra match udi played figured large in the second half. Fior finally had better fitness than somone

  

• slakas |  February 5th, 2012 at 9:54 am

  
  
  

  I was hoping Jovetic might give amauri the second PK, just to get him a taste, but I seem to recall seeing amauri miss some pks?

  

• Quattro stelle |  February 5th, 2012 at 10:13 am

  
  
  

  Napoli lead the league in draws and have a hard time with teams that park the bus (they really suffer vs. the relegation zone). I imagine us playing a 5-3-2 most of the match.

  

• Nolan |  February 5th, 2012 at 10:27 am

  
  
  

  We finally won 2 in a row!

  

• Slakas |  February 5th, 2012 at 10:49 am

  
  
  

  need to ride the wave of enthusiasm and get 3 more points in Parma

  

• Slakas |  February 5th, 2012 at 11:43 am

  
  
  

  Great News! Lazzari’s yellow disqualifies him next week, they couldn’t play him, even if they wanted to

  

• Nolan |  February 5th, 2012 at 1:11 pm

  
  
  

  Maybe it’s time to see with Olivera is made of, I guess.

  

• Brett |  February 5th, 2012 at 1:58 pm

  
  
  

  Monto spotted on the train to Milan after the game.

  

• Tomas |  February 5th, 2012 at 2:18 pm

  
  
  

  Slackass, not to rush you or anything but uh, I missed the game and I’m anxious to read the recap!

  

• Slakas |  February 5th, 2012 at 3:54 pm

  
  
  

  I did the preview, mike’s doing the review.

  

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