Luciano Bernardi

Goalkeeper - Udinese U18
1 May 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Luciano Bernardi

177 Edition

The Udinese Sentinel

17 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for Udinese

A 1‑1 win over Arezzo, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

A fracture rules Luciano Bernardi out for 18 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Udinese will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Alessandro Nunziante is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Alessandro Nunziante: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Unai Gómez

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Unai Gómez 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.

Match

Udinese make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

No hiding place for Nicolò Zaniolo

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

Match

Petar Ratkov the difference as Udinese beat Cremonese

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Petar Ratkov. 1‑0 against Cremonese, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Nicolò Bertola shuts the door

Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

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176 Edition

The Udinese Sentinel

10 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Luciano Bernardi out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Udinese will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Edoardo Piana

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Udinese

Unai Gómez 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Udinese

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

No hiding place for Nicolò Bertola

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

Player ratings

Oumar Solet was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

Udinese and Genoa take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jurgen Ekkelenkamp

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The Maduka Okoye question follows Udinese around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Maduka Okoye’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief