Maduka Okoye help Udinese end six-match losing run with 0–0 draw away to Parma on Wednesday October 28, 2026. Punch report say Nigeria goalkeeper receive Man of the Match award after e stop home team from scoring for Stadio Ennio Tardini.
Important moment come for 69th minute when Okoye save Adrián Bernabé penalty. Since neither team score, that intervention preserve the point wey Udinese eventually carry from the match. Na draw wey defensive work secure, no be return to winning form for the club.
Okoye attribute the penalty stop to instinct for comments wey report take from Udinese website. E say team want victory but need points and fit accept the one dem get away from home. Im comments focus on immediate result without saying recent difficulties don disappear.
Teammate Nicolò Zaniolo praise goalkeeper contribution and credit am for helping stop losing sequence. Okoye too mention importance of players like Zaniolo wey the side don miss. Their comments put one individual save inside the team wider effort to recover form.
Punch identify the shutout as Okoye first Serie A clean sheet of the season. Report also record 18 goals conceded for im previous nine league appearances. Those figures show improvement for this match; dem no establish how e go perform for matches wey still dey ahead.
Udinese next stated focus na Roma. For Nigeria goalkeeper, Parma performance join penalty save, clean sheet and individual award together. For im club, immediate gain na one away point and end to the losing sequence wey the report describe before this match.