Over the last few seasons they are a club that can only finish in the bottom 10 of the standings. It was a bad record for them. But now they are in third place, just one point adrift of Napoli and also Atalanta.
It's interesting to see how changes have been made to the Udinese squad to place them in the top 4 now. Their winning record is also very good so far, 5 times without defeat and between those wins they faced big clubs like Inter Milan and also AS Roma.
But the question is whether they can maintain their current performance or not. Because that determines their position at the end of the season.
Even big teams are difficult to maintain the top position, even for example like Napoli who always slip towards the end of the season shows that maintaining the best position is a difficult job. So, about Udinese I'm personally not so sure but it will be a different story if the big teams below him have returned to the track, it will be easy for Udinese to fall. Therefore, the main factor for Udinese to last longer in the best position in the standings is only if the other big teams are in a bad situation.
It's hard to say Napoli, Atalanta and Udinese can compete to be the best at the end of the season. There are still 31 games left for them to play in Serie A this season, a long journey to go through every game. Inter, Milan and Roma will try to climb to the top by beating every opponent they face. This season's Serie A competition is very difficult to predict which team will get the Scudetto at the end, the big teams are struggling to improve their performance. While the dark horse team that appears at the top of the rankings could be threatened when the favorite Champion team has returned to its best form.