Udinese beat Panathinaikos 2-1

Udinese earned an impressive 2-1 friendly win away to Panathinaikos on Duvan Zapata’s debut.

The Friulani secured a shock victory in Greece, even though star striker Antonio Di Natale was rested.

Bruno Fernandes opened the scoring after nine minutes, lobbing the goalkeeper from a splendid long Ali Adnan pass.

Wemmer and Cyril Thereau went close before Marcus Berg pounced on a Simone Scuffet error to equalise.

Zapata should’ve put Udinese back in front moments later, but fired straight at the goalkeeper in a one-on-one situation.

The victory was decided by Uruguayan forward Rodrigo Aguirre with another delightful chip.

Silvan Widmer almost made it 3-1 for Udinese, but his daisy-cutter skimmed the upright, while Lod nodded over in the final minute.

Panathinaikos 1-2 Udinese

Scorers: Bruno Fernandes 9 (U), Berg 55 (P), Aguirre 78 (U)

Panathinaikos: Kostolis; Wemmer, Tavlaridis, Sanchez (Triantafyllopoulos 60), Pranjic; Zeca, Ninis (Petric 66), Lagos (Koutroumpis 60), Ajagun (Lod 60); Berg, Karelis (Kaltsas 70)

Udinese: Karnezis (Scuffet 46); Wague (Piris 61), Danilo, Domizzi (Heurtaux 46); Edenilson (Pasquale 46), Kone (Badu 46), Pinzi (Merkel 46), Fernandes (A Zapata 84), Adnan (Widmer 46); Thereau (Aguirre 64), Duvan Zapata (Verre 61)