Against Udinese he played just over half an hour but that was enough for him: a protagonist comeback for Vlasic
He doesn’t score, he doesn’t score but Vlasic’s return to the field, in the match against Udinese, is one of the happiest notes of the last day of the championship. The return from Qatar, in fact, had brought back to Toro a player who seemed like a bad copy of the one who amazed and convinced everyone at the beginning of the season. A player that Toro, for weeks now, had been hoping to find again as soon as possible. And so it was. A bit surprisingly, against Udinese Juric decides to give him, so to speak, a little rest by starting him on the bench. The first time he doesn’t start as a starter after the match against Monza in the first championship match.
Juric, successful choice
And more than a group later, Juric’s choice proved to be perfectly timed. In place of the Croatian, the grenade coach sent young Karamoh onto the pitch who at the start of the second half, just before leaving the pitch, scored the winning goal. The second in two games after the one signed with Fiorentina on an assist from Nikola Vlasic. But that is not all. It is the grenade number 16 himself, in fact, that confirms how revitalizing half a game off was. Called upon to take the place of the man of the match, the attacker finally returns to being the protagonist. A few minutes after entering the field, he is the one who makes himself extremely dangerous with a shot that comes out by a whisker and in the crucial actions of the second half there is almost always his hand.
Vlasic takes back the Bull and agrees with Juric: “Important player”
In short, in little more than half an hour he erases, hopefully definitively, the shadows and the fatigue that had followed him from Qatar. In fact, after the World Cup, the 16 grenade had literally disappeared from the radar. A physiological drop, mainly due to the tiredness of continuous employment both in the league and in the national team, and certainly not to a drop in concentration or motivation. So much so that Juric himself, on the sidelines of the last match against Spezia, had highlighted its importance regardless of the conditions: “For me he’s a complete player, he lacks brilliance, he does a certain kind of important job and he always is even when he’s not. He keeps the ball, lets players play, does a lot for the team“. Confirmation arrives against Udinese and Toro has one more reason to celebrate.
