Giovanni Galeone admits Udinese have been disappointing this season and that defeat at Lazio would make him feel “useless.”
The Friuli outfit have managed just three wins, four draws and three defeats so far this season and suffered a 1-0 loss at Livorno last week.
“To lose again would make me feel really useless,” confessed the Coach. “This is a team with internationals like Antonio Di Natale, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Giampaolo Pinzi, Cesare Natali, Morgan De Sanctis, Christian Obodo, Sulley Ali Muntari, Gyan Asamoah, Zapata and Dias Felipe.
“If we put them all together, the players are worth around £55m. I confess, our position in the table is below par, at least as far as I am concerned.”
However, the trip to the Stadio Olimpico will be made without three of Galeone’s choice men – Di Natale, Muntari and Natali.
“We have worked well this week and there are encouraging signs from training, as indeed there usually are. I hope we have a different sense of tension from last Saturday, as we weren’t focused enough. It’s true we have some major absences, but Lazio aren’t too solid in that department either.”

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