Udinese Calcio 2-5 AS Roma: Serie A Match Report, 31 October 2026

Roma were four goals up at the interval in Udine, and from there only the margin was in question. Udinese Calcio 2-5 AS Roma ended with the home side winning the second half 2-1, which changed the look of the scoreline and nothing about the result. The record holds the half-time and full-time scores and nothing in between, so the order of the goals within each half is unknown.

The table explained the direction of the first half, if not its scale. Roma arrived third on 21 points from nine games, unbeaten, six wins and three draws, with a goal difference of +15. Udinese were 17th on five points, -9, and without a win at home all season: one draw and four defeats in Udine, with two goals scored there. Since beating Monza at the end of August they had gone seven league games without a win, and the goalless draw at Parma on the Wednesday was their only point in that run.

Five goals is Roma's highest total of the season; they had scored four three times. It also equals the most Udinese have conceded, in the 5-3 defeat at Inter in September. And it is out of character for this fixture: none of the four previous meetings on record produced more than three goals, and Udinese won the most recent of them, 1-0 at home in February.

Publishing here had paused for the last days of October, so the fixture went unpreviewed and there is no pick on it.

Roma reach 24 points from ten games, still without a defeat, with a goal difference of +18. Last season they finished third on 73 points and lost 11 times; ten games in, they have not lost once. Their rate of 2.4 points a game is ahead of last season's 1.92, and ahead of the 2.29 that won Inter the title. The caveat is defensive: Roma conceded three goals in their first seven league games and seven in the three since, including the two here. Whether that is noise or the start of something, three matches cannot show.

For Udinese the figures are five points from ten and a goal difference of -12. Their home record now reads six played, none won. Last season they finished tenth on 50 points, about 1.32 a game; this season they are averaging 0.5. They kicked off 17th, one place above the drop zone, and with 84 points still available nothing is decided. Lecce stayed up on 38 last season; matching that from five would take 33 from 28 matches, about 1.18 a game, below what Udinese managed across the whole of last season and more than double what they have managed in this one. The 2-1 second half is the only part of the match that offers them anything, and it came with the result already beyond reach.