SS Lazio 2-1 Parma Calcio 1913: Serie A Match Report, 24 October 2026

Our preview of this match was written on 18 October 2026 but only went live on 1 November, after the final whistle. Its pick is reviewed below as it was written, and it is left out of our win rate and bankroll.

For a half, Parma held Lazio the way the recent meetings said they might. SS Lazio 2-1 Parma Calcio 1913 was goalless at the interval, and both of Parma's previous visits to Rome on record had finished level. All three goals came after the break, two of them Lazio's, for their first home win over Parma in three attempts.

On the table it should not have been close. Lazio kicked off second on 19 points from seven matches, unbeaten, with 14 scored and four conceded. Parma were nineteenth on four, with four goals all season and a goal difference of minus nine, and had lost all three of their away matches while scoring once.

The goalless half was out of character for Lazio at home. In each of their three earlier matches in Rome they had led at the break: 1-0 against Genoa, 2-0 against both Milan and Monza. Here they were kept out for a half by a side that had failed to score in either of its previous two matches. Parma's goal ended that run. The order of the second-half goals is not on record, so whether it opened the scoring, levelled it or came as a consolation cannot be said.

Lazio are on 22 points from eight matches and still unbeaten, with seven wins and a draw. Last season they finished ninth on 54 with a goal difference of plus one, mid-table at both ends; they already have two-fifths of that points total from a fifth of the fixtures. Both ends have moved. Sixteen goals in eight is two a game, against barely more than one last season, and five conceded works out at 0.6 a game, against just over one across 2025/26.

Parma stay on four points after eight and still have nothing from four away matches. Their problem is the one they carried through last season, when 28 goals brought thirteenth place on the back of twelve draws. Five goals in eight is a slightly lower scoring rate than that, and the draws have not come: one so far. With thirty matches left nothing is settled at the bottom, but drawing their way clear, as they did a year ago, is not happening yet.

Our preview's call was SS Lazio Win at 1.52.

Its case rested on Parma's away record, no points and one goal from three trips, set against a Lazio defence that had conceded four in six. It expected a 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1 rather than an open game, and the final shape fits that. The defensive half of the argument held less well: Parma scored, and a side fifteen points clear at kick-off won by a single goal. The danger the preview named, Parma frustrating Lazio as they had in this fixture before, lasted a full half. The table had also moved since it was written on 18 October: the twelve-point gap it quoted was fifteen by kick-off.

Verdict: not counted. The pick would have won, but the preview only went live after kick-off.