Good afternoon and welcome to our LIVE coverage of the Serie A fixture between Udinese and Palermo!

Zehavi latches onto a ball into the Udine area but it's well shielded by Domizzi allowing Handanovic to smother it.

Asamoah cuts a ball inside the area from the left flank which Isla dummies through his own legs... but there's only pink shirts behind him and the clever effort goes to waste.

Asamoah shoots wide from distance on the break, after which Pisano is booked in retrospect for a foul on Di Natale in the midst of it all.

Isla sets Basta free on the right, he cuts into the area unimpeded! One on one with the keeper! Somehow goes wide of the near post with a chip attempt over Tzorvas!

Handanovic claims, but spills - only because of a barge from Migliaccio. Free-kick to Udinese.

Zehavi is picked out in a bit of space just outside the box... good effort, parried by Handanovic for another Palermo corner! A corner which Isla blocks at the near post for another one.

Miccoli goes for goal... easy for Handanovic.

Benatia gets a warning for sliding in carelessly, Palermo have a free-kick dead central, 30 yards out.

Isla does better with the low cross this time finding the run of Asamoah into the box! Tzorvas saves and holds!

The hosts really should have taken the lead after outnumbering Palermo 4-to-3 on the break. A diagonal pass to the right finds Isla in space, in fact he is in a decent position to slot across the keeper into the far post. He instead tries to tee up a more central Di Natale and the pass is blocked and cleared.

Flores is caught offside.

Di Natale is unable to get onto a raking ball upfield from the back.

The Udine back line deal comfortably with a speculative early cross from the right.

The men in pink aren't going to roll over, though, and once again Asamoah defends well by cutting out a low pass across goal from Miccoli.

Low Udinese cross cleared from danger. The hosts are sparking to life.

DI NATALE! CURLS ONE ONTO THE BAR! Great square pass from Flores and the skipper did so well on the turn to come that close. Goal kick.

After a bit of a delay thanks to handbags amidst the six-yard-box crowd, the referee eventually gives a free-kick to Udinese for a foul while the ball is in the air.

Asamoah is forced to head a dangerous centre from the left by Balzaretti out for Palermo's second corner.

A central free-kick from 30 yards out is headed out of the danger zone by Palermo before Di Natale wastefully tries a loft pass on the second ball, over the defence, only earning the away team a goal kick.

Said corner is nodded wide of the far post by Silvestre.

First corner of the game goes to Palermo.