Torino vs Udinese preview - Heurtaux not taking Torino lightly

Posted Saturday, October 18, 2014 by PA

Udinese defender Thomas Heurtaux believes Torino will soon discover the solution to 'The Immobile Problem'.

Ever since their 2013-14 Capocannoniere striker Ciro Immobile was sold to Borussia Dortmund in the summer, Il Toro have struggled for goals and they currently occupy a disappointing 14th place in the Serie A table.

Yet Fabio Quagliarella - signed from Juventus - is in decent touch with three goals so far and Heurtaux thinks there is more to come from the skilful hitman.

He hopes, however, that the home goals do not flow when his Udinese team-mates visit Turin on Sunday.

"We are all working hard before the game against Torino," he told the Corriere dello Sport. "It will not be an easy game but we want to keep achieving the positive results that are characterising this first half of our season.

"I also think we can prolong this positive run of results away from home.

"We are in good form, it will not be easy on Sunday but we should be able to transfer the good we have done in training this week to the pitch.

"Torino are a team that play football very well. It's true that they've lost Immobile, but they still have strong players like (Fabio) Quagliarella.

"But all we really need to worry about is how we are going to play."

Riding high in fourth place, Udinese travel west with a clean bill of health and without any suspensions to worry about.

It is a different story for the home team, with Omar El Kaddouri and Kamil Glik both serving two-match suspensions while Migjen Basha, Alexander Farnerud and Antonio Nocerino miss out through injury.

Torino's sole win of the season so far came on the road, at Cagliari, and they have earned only one point at the Stadio Olimpico, courtesy of a 1-1 draw with Fiorentina.