Parma Calcio 1913 0-0 Udinese Calcio: Serie A Match Report, 28 October 2026

Neither side had kept a clean sheet all season. Sixteen league games between them, 33 goals conceded, and then Parma Calcio 1913 0-0 Udinese Calcio: goalless at half-time, goalless at the end, and a first shut-out for both. Nothing beyond the two scores survives, so how either defence held out is left unsaid.

Both clubs went into it near the foot of the table, on four points from eight games and a single goal of difference apart: Udinese 17th on -9, the last place above the relegation zone, and Parma 19th on -10, inside it, with the club between them necessarily on four as well.

Each had a run to stop, and each stopped it. Udinese had lost six league games in a row since beating Monza in August, conceding 15 in that spell. Parma had lost their previous three while scoring once, and had five goals all season, a rate below even last season's 28 in 38. On that evidence the home attack was the weaker of the two, and it drew a blank for the fifth time in nine games.

Recent meetings offered no precedent. All four on record had produced a winner, and the last two had gone to the away side, including a 2-0 Udinese win at the Tardini last November.

We made no call on this match. It came in the midweek round at the end of October, a stretch in which nothing was published here.

Not much, in arithmetic terms. Both clubs move to five points from nine; Parma's goal difference stays at -10 and Udinese's at -9. Starting level and drawing, neither gained ground on the other, and since the clubs around them were playing the same week, where each stands after the round depends on other results.

The more useful comparison is with last season. Udinese finished tenth on 50 points and Parma 13th on 45, rates of about 1.32 and 1.18 a game. Both are now on 0.56. Last season 38 points was enough for 17th and 34 was not; to reach the higher of those figures, each needs 33 more from the 29 games left, about 1.14 a game. That is a little under Parma's rate across the whole of last season and twice what either has managed so far, which says less about relegation, nine games in, than about how far both clubs are from their own recent standard.

The point does end two losing runs, and both defences have a clean sheet to show for the first time. One game is not a trend, and that applies to the good news as much as to the defeats that came before it.