Roma vs Udinese preview: Guests will have a difficult 90 minutes at Stadio Olimpico

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Thu 23.September
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Olimpico (72698 seats)

Roma duel Udinese for fame and sporting success.

Insights:
  • Roma have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Serie A

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Roma form and stats

Perfect Serie A season at home so far for Roma 2 wins from 2 appearances.

Roma faced defeat in their previous match, away at Hellas Verona (2-3). Lorenzo Pellegrini (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.0/10. Pellegrini scored one goal, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that, Roma had a home game versus Sassuolo which ended with a victory 2-1.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Roma home games with this odds we find ten games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in nine wins, one draw and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, seven matches were won by at least two goals.

Roma are traveling soon after this match as the Serie A match at Lazio awaits in three days.

Roma has scored 5 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Udinese form and stats

Only one away game in the Serie A so far for Udinese and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 5 victories, 6 draws and 8 losses from 19 travels.

Home advantage was not enough for Udinese in their previous game, as they lost their Serie A-match, hosting Napoli, 0-4. Udinese lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Gerard Deulofeu, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.05. Deulofeu hit one key pass.

Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Spezia.

You'll want to know how Udinese managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found five similar matches resulting in zero away wins, zero draws and five home wins.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Fiorentina in just three days.

Udinese have the goal stats of 1-0 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Previous ten meetings featuring these squads: Roma won eight, Udinese were winners in two and we saw zero draws. four games with more than 2,5 goals, six matches with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

RomaL. Pellegrini
L. Pellegrini
3 goals
RomaJ. Veretout
J. Veretout
3 goals
UdineseG. Deulofeu Lázaro
G. Deulofeu Lázaro
2 goals

Roma missing players

Udinese missing players

Roma Udinese
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
4 2 1 Played P 0 1 4
3 2 1 Won W 0 1 2
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
11 5 2 Scored S 0 1 6
5 2 1 Conceded C 0 0 6
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 75%
100% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 75%
75% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 50%
25% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
75% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 25%
25% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 25%
 
6.5 4 4 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5 4.2
3.5 5 6 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4 3.5
2.2 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 1.8
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
17.8 14 17 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10 13.2
6.5 6.5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 5.2
42% 38% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 25% 29%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Roma have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Serie A
Roma Last season Udinese
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
37 19   Played P   19 38
18 13   Won W   5 10
8 4   Drew D   6 10
11 2   Lost L   8 18
68 42   Scored S   28 42
55 18   Conceded C   39 58
95% 95%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   95% 92%
84% 79%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   84% 68%
65% 58%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   68% 45%
51% 42%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   53% 29%
22% 21%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   37% 21%
54% 47%   BTTS BTTS   79% 55%
30% 47%   Clean Sheets C S   11% 21%
22% 11%   Failed to Score F T   16% 32%
 
5.8 5.6   Corners for (avg) C F   3.8 4.3
3.9 3.9   Corners against (avg) C A   5 5.1
2.5 2.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.8 1.7
3 2   Red cards R C   2 2
 
14.4 15.8   Shots (avg) S (   10.7 11.3
5.4 5.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.3 3.6
34% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   44% 31%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Napoli 4 4 0 0 10 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 2 0 0 6 1 8 12
2 Inter 4 3 1 0 15 4 2 2 0 0 10 1 2 1 1 0 5 3 11 10
3 Milan 4 3 1 0 8 2 2 2 0 0 6 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 6 10
4 Roma 4 3 0 1 11 5 2 2 0 0 5 2 2 1 0 1 6 3 6 9
5 Fiorentina 4 3 0 1 7 6 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 2 0 1 5 5 1 9
6 Lazio 4 2 1 1 11 6 2 1 1 0 8 3 2 1 0 1 3 3 5 7
7 Atalanta 4 2 1 1 4 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 3 1 1 7
8 Udinese 4 2 1 1 6 6 3 1 1 1 5 6 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 7
9 Bologna 4 2 1 1 5 8 2 2 0 0 4 2 2 0 1 1 1 6 -3 7
10 Torino 4 2 0 2 7 4 2 1 0 1 5 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 6
11 Sampdoria 4 1 2 1 5 3 2 0 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 0 3 0 2 5
12 Sassuolo 4 1 1 2 4 5 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 4 4 -1 4
13 Spezia 4 1 1 2 5 10 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 1 1 1 5 9 -5 4
14 Hellas Verona 4 1 0 3 6 9 3 1 0 2 6 8 1 0 0 1 0 1 -3 3
15 Genoa 4 1 0 3 5 10 2 0 0 2 2 4 2 1 0 1 3 6 -5 3
16 Empoli 4 1 0 3 3 8 3 0 0 3 2 8 1 1 0 0 1 0 -5 3
17 Venezia 4 1 0 3 3 8 1 0 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 2 2 6 -5 3
18 Juventus 4 0 2 2 4 6 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 3 4 -2 2
19 Cagliari 4 0 2 2 7 11 2 0 1 1 4 5 2 0 1 1 3 6 -4 2
20 Salernitana 4 0 0 4 2 12 2 0 0 2 0 5 2 0 0 2 2 7 -10 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Inter 38 28 7 3 89 35 19 17 1 1 53 18 19 11 6 2 36 17 54 91
2 Milan 38 24 7 7 74 41 19 8 6 5 31 24 19 16 1 2 43 17 33 79
3 Atalanta 38 23 9 6 90 47 19 12 3 4 49 24 19 11 6 2 41 23 43 78
4 Juventus 38 23 9 6 77 38 19 14 2 3 40 18 19 9 7 3 37 20 39 78
5 Napoli 38 24 5 9 86 41 19 12 4 3 50 20 19 12 1 6 36 21 45 77
6 Lazio 38 21 5 12 61 55 19 13 3 3 36 23 19 8 2 9 25 32 6 68
7 Roma 38 18 8 12 68 58 19 13 4 2 42 18 19 5 4 10 26 40 10 62
8 Sassuolo 38 17 11 10 64 56 19 7 8 4 31 27 19 10 3 6 33 29 8 62
9 Sampdoria 38 15 7 16 52 54 19 9 3 7 32 26 19 6 4 9 20 28 -2 52
10 Hellas Verona 38 11 12 15 46 48 19 6 6 7 23 23 19 5 6 8 23 25 -2 45
11 Genoa 38 10 12 16 47 58 19 5 7 7 29 30 19 5 5 9 18 28 -11 42
12 Bologna 38 10 11 17 51 65 19 7 5 7 33 33 19 3 6 10 18 32 -14 41
13 Fiorentina 38 9 13 16 47 59 19 6 6 7 25 25 19 3 7 9 22 34 -12 40
14 Udinese 38 10 10 18 42 58 19 5 4 10 14 19 19 5 6 8 28 39 -16 40
15 Spezia 38 9 12 17 52 72 19 5 7 7 28 33 19 4 5 10 24 39 -20 39
16 Cagliari 38 9 10 19 43 59 19 5 4 10 22 32 19 4 6 9 21 27 -16 37
17 Torino 38 7 16 15 50 69 19 3 9 7 25 36 19 4 7 8 25 33 -19 37
18 Benevento 38 7 12 19 40 75 19 2 7 10 19 39 19 5 5 9 21 36 -35 33
19 Crotone 38 6 5 27 45 92 19 5 2 12 23 35 19 1 3 15 22 57 -47 23
20 Parma 38 3 11 24 39 83 19 2 5 12 16 39 19 1 6 12 23 44 -44 20

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Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.