AS Roma 2-2 FC Internazionale Milano: Serie A Match Report, 19 September 2026

First played second with both sides still unbeaten, and neither left with the win: AS Roma 2-2 FC Internazionale Milano. The half-time score was 2-0 to Roma, so the two goals that saved Inter's record both came after the interval — a recovery rather than an even game that finished level, though the record stops short of saying anything about how either goal came.

The table going in made this the fixture of the round. Roma were top on 12 points from four, goal difference +11, having won all four and conceded a single goal in the process: 4-0 against Fiorentina, 4-0 at Lecce, 2-1 against Atalanta, 2-0 at Torino. Inter were second on 12 from four, also with a perfect record, but on a different model — goal difference +7 from 13 scored and 6 conceded, including a 5-3 against Udinese and a 3-2 against Napoli. One side had been winning without conceding, the other without needing to defend.

A 2-0 half-time lead therefore cut against the pattern of both clubs at once, and the second half restored it: Inter's season had already shown they would score whatever the position, and Roma, who had conceded one goal in four matches, conceded two in a single half. Inter had also won three of the four previous meetings on record, including 5-2 in April, so a comeback in this fixture was not out of character.

Both clubs go to 13 points from five, still unbeaten and no longer perfect, with Roma keeping the better goal difference of the two. For Inter, champions last season on 87 points, a point away at the early leaders is a result that looks better in May than it felt on the day; for Roma, third last season on 73, two points went missing from a winning position, which is the harsher way to drop them.

What it does not settle is anything about a title race. Five matches of thirty-eight have been played, the two clubs are level on points, and declaring a direction from one afternoon when they have spent four weeks beating everyone else would be inventing a story the table does not carry. The useful observation is narrower: Roma's defence, which had conceded once in four games, conceded twice in forty-five minutes against the best attack they had faced, and Inter, two down at the interval, still finished level — the first time this season they had needed to retrieve anything.

This fixture went unpreviewed here — the site was dormant through September's rounds — so the page records what happened without a call attached to it.