Manuel De Marco

Striker - Udinese
3 Apr 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Manuel De Marco

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The Udinese Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Unai Gómez scores twice — 8.94

Two goals and a mark of 8.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Genaro Rossi asks to leave Udinese

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Jordan Zemura scores twice — 8.50

Two goals and a mark of 8.50 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Nicolò Zaniolo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Udinese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Manuel De Marco at Udinese

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Manuel De Marco is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

6 goals as Udinese and Cremonese go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Udinese and Cremonese, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

Jordan Zemura the difference as Udinese beat Cremonese

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jordan Zemura. 4‑2 against Cremonese, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Genaro Rossi wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Udinese know it.

Match

Udinese are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

In brief

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The Udinese Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Unai Gómez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Udinese

Oumar Solet was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Real improvement from Manuel De Marco at Udinese

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Manuel De Marco is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

No hiding place for Keinan Davis

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Keinan Davis, and the manager let it.

Match

Parma take the points off Udinese

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Udinese training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luiz Felipe is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Keinan Davis

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Player ratings

Mërgim Vojvoda could not find anything

4.69. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

Player ratings

The one thing Keinan Davis could not do

Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief