AS Roma 2-0 Genoa CFC: Serie A Match Report, 17 October 2026

AS Roma 2-0 Genoa CFC, with nothing on the board at half-time and both goals arriving after it. That split matters here, because Roma had taken two points from their previous two games and the second of them, a goalless draw at Como, had looked much like this one at the interval. The difference was the second half.

Roma came in third on 14 points from six games, goal difference +11 — four wins, then 2-2 at home to Inter and 0-0 at Como. Fourteen goals scored and three conceded in six is the headline, and the three conceded is the part that explains their position: before this match they had kept four clean sheets in six, and they added a fifth. For a club that finished third last season on 73 points, the start reads as continuity rather than improvement, with the caveat that two consecutive draws had stalled it.

Genoa arrived seventeenth on 4 points from six, goal difference -6, having lost four, drawn at home with Frosinone and beaten Fiorentina 2-1 a week earlier. That win was their first of the season, and this was the much harder follow-up to it. They did at least arrive with something to point at — Genoa had won the most recent meeting between the clubs, 2-1 in March, and had drawn another of the four on record, so the fixture was not the mismatch the table suggested.

Our record carries no preview for this match. The site went unattended through the second half of September and the first half of October, and these reports are the catching-up.

Roma move to 17 points from seven and end the two-game run without a win, while keeping a defensive record of three goals conceded in seven matches. That is the figure to watch for the rest of their season: a side scoring at two a game and conceding at under half of one is not doing anything that needs explaining, and the two draws look less like a problem now than they did before kick-off.

Genoa stay on 4 points from seven with a goal difference of -8, the first win of their season followed immediately by a return to the pattern that preceded it. Seven matches in, four points is a figure that belongs at the bottom of the table — they went into the round seventeenth — without yet being a relegation season; they finished sixteenth last year on 41 points, a total assembled in spring rather than autumn. The specific worry is the road: three trips, three defeats, one goal scored. All four of their points have come at home, and no club survives on half a fixture list.