The Dacia Arena has been a fruitful hunting ground for Inter these past few seasons as the Nerazzurri travel to Udine to face 17th placed Udinese in the Serie A.

Both teams need three points to come in line with their season’s objectives. The Nerazzurri will rely on their away record for some charm, a remarkable 5 wins in their last 5 matches.

Attack:

The Nerazzurri have scored 5 goals in their previous two meetings at the Dacia Arena. Mauro Icardi, currently on 10 league goals, has scored in each of his last three games against Udinese. Right full-back Danilo D’Ambrosio and right winger Matteo Politano, have together provided 10 assists, with 5 each.

The Friuliano have the 3rd worst attack in the Serie A after Chievo and Frosinone and they haven’t scored more than 1 goal in their last 4 games. Rodrigo De Paul has the most goals and assists with 9 and 4 respectively.

Defence:

The Nerazurri boast having the second best defence in the league with only 28 goals conceded and haven’t conceded a goal to Udinese in their last two meetings. Handanovic maintains the record with the most clean sheets, on 15, in the Serie A. Since the start of 2016/17 season, Handanovic has kept 48 clean sheets, which makes him 4th best in Europe.

Udinese haven’t kept a clean sheet in 6 games and they have conceded 49 goals in the Serie A this season. Adding to this, the Zebrette haven’t managed a clean sheet in their last 6 meetings against the Nerazzurri.

Moving the ball:

Inter are the team with the second highest ball possession in the Serie A with 56.6% and have 86% pass accuracy, which makes them the third best in the Serie A. Brozovic makes an impressive 76.1 passes per game on average, with an accuracy of 89.7%.

Udinese have the ball 45.1% of the time and have a 78% pass accuracy.

Whoscored rating leaders:

Brozovic (7.06), Perisic (7.04) and Asamoah (6.96) are the highest rated players for the Nerazzurri in the Serie A this season.

Meanwhile De Paul (7.27), Pussetto (6.94) and Samir (6.85) are the top three performers for Udinese.

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