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Kosta Runjaic is happy that allowed Udinese to amass extra factors than all through all of final season, however received’t be drawn on European ambition. ‘We mustn’t look too far ahead.’

For the second spherical in a row, a penalty proved sufficient to offer the Friulani all three factors, though this time there was no drama.

Within the 1-0 victory away to Lecce, Lorenzo Lucca had infuriated his teammates and the coach by insisting on taking the spot-kick, whereas this night he acted as bodyguard to make sure the Parma gamers didn’t attempt to disturb Florian Thauvin.

“The primary half we performed excellent, we managed the sport, had good possession, we put stress on due to the possession. We didn’t create that many possibilities, however nonetheless dominated the sport in my opinion,”

“Within the second half, we didn’t play the identical stage, but it surely was nonetheless a really intense sport. We all know that Parma have a brand new coach, with good particular person gamers, particularly harmful in transitions. For my style, we allowed them a bit an excessive amount of area and we additionally ought to’ve scored a second purpose, however total I’d say it was a deserved victory.”

It was put to the coach that the explanation why they scored so few objectives lately is that their strikers are too egocentric and barely make the move.

“I didn’t get that impression from the touchline, however I should consider the sport and if I see that they’ve been egocentric, I’ll communicate to them.”

Runjaic stalls Udinese ambition for Europe

The end result means Udinese have amassed 4 wins and a draw away to Napoli of their final 5 Serie A video games.

and may start to eye up the European qualification spots, particularly as there are nonetheless some very massive fixtures to be performed on the Bluenergy Stadium.

Lazio, Inter and Juventus all want to go to, whereas Udinese are away to Milan, Bologna and Fiorentina.

“We take it one sport at a time, that’s our idea,” assured Runjaic.

“We’re more than happy at having 39 factors in a really exhausting season, we labored intensely and at the moment are reaping the rewards. We need to proceed our marketing campaign and get as many factors as attainable.”

Udinese haven’t amassed this many factors after 27 rounds since 2013, when Francesco Guidolin took them to the European preliminary rounds.

They’ve additionally already picked up 39 factors, two greater than all through all of final season. Can they elevate the bar in the direction of Europe subsequent time period?

“I don’t know what the long run holds, the long run is now. We mustn’t look too far ahead,” stated Runjaic.

“We’re very grateful to be on this place, we nonetheless bear in mind final season, so we’ve simply received to maintain going and attempt to get the most effective out of the present marketing campaign.”

The coach was giving his post-match interview in English, however at one second unintentionally slipped into German, so what number of languages does Runjaic communicate?

“My English is okay, I communicate German, Serbo-Croatian, I perceive Polish and now increasingly Italian. I simply want just a little extra time so I can communicate it higher.”