Serie A, Udinese-Roma 0-4: giallorossi quarters, another blow for Tudor | News

THE MATCH

Only one team on the field and three points to return to Trigoria. There Rome, in ten for an hour of play, he walked on the rubble of theUdinese who, fresh from the seven goals collected in Bergamo, confirmed the masochistic vein of the last period, giving the Giallorossi the goal for which the Tudor card castle collapsed. The few ideas and an improvised defensive phase for the Friulians have allowed Rome to be able to play in the spaces with lucidity and cynicism thanks to the plays of Zaniolo, Pastore and Kluivert and an unpublished midfield pair, like Mancini and Veretout, but close-knit. One 0-4 deserved despite the numerical inferiority.

The flare of pride ofUdinese of Tudor it remained on just over ten minutes, just enough time to try a couple of restarts with Lasagna – putting Fazio in trouble and little else. The high defense wanted by Tudor collapsed for the most trivial of verticalizations: Kolarov (right) kicked deeply, Samir went incredibly empty is Zaniolo he thanked beating Musso. The Udinese game ended here, above all in terms of character. After the advantage Roma's performance grew in quality and intensity, taking possession of the midfield and maneuvering aggressively before and after the expulsion, more than disputed, of Fazio for interrupting a clear scoring opportunity on Okaka.

Despite the numerical superiority, however, Udinese was wrecked. From the developments of a corner kick, with lots of Lasagna deviation, the doubling of has arrived Smalling already at 51 ', but in less than a quarter of an hour in the door of Musso other goals have been signed by Kluivert (54 ') with a manual counter-attack action involving Mancini, Dzeko and Pastore; is Kolarov on penalty, for Becao's handball. Eleven in total, always considering the Bergamo debacle. Unbelievable for a team like Udinese that before the last weekend was registered as the best in the league. For the Rome, instead, another important answer in full emergency and three points with a lot of show that give moral and courage.

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REPORT CARDS

Zaniolo 7 – Third consecutive goal, the first away match in his career as a Giallorossi. Glacial in front of the goalkeeper, with his rides on the right he put the Friulian rearguard in great difficulty, talking well with Kluivert, Dzeko and Pastore.

Samir 4 – The blunder with which he sends Zaniolo in the door is incredible. It puts down the race for Rome and takes away the lack of conviction in the comrades.

Fazio 5 – The red card is questionable, but the way in which it arrived sufficiently for that discussed action is from a red circle. Slow and inattentive on several occasions, in the end he paid a high price for it.

Kluivert 7 – Get a lively and convincing performance with the goal. Take advantage of the spaces with quality and lucidity in the triangulations. Very good on the occasion of the network for movement and coldness.

De Paul 4.5 – Udinese relies on its quality to come out of the negative moment, but the Argentine splits and makes too many mistakes.

Smalling 6.5 – First goal in Italy for the former United, good at being in the right place at the right time on the development of a corner. In defense precise and careful.
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THE STATISTICS

• Roma did not win with four away goals in Serie A from the match played against Benevento in September 2017 (4-0).
• Roma have won 12 of the last 13 Serie A matches against Udinese (1P), a partial one in which they kept the clean sheet seven times and conceded seven goals in total.
• Roma have only suffered a KO in the last 19 Serie A matches (10V, 8N): since last April, moreover, no team has lost less matches than the Giallorossi (one) in the top league.
• Roma are the team that has suffered fewer goals (only two) away in this Serie A.
• Udinese have conceded a total of 11 goals in their last two Serie A games. The last team to have cashed the same number of goals in two consecutive matches in the maximum tournament was Pescara in February 2017.
• Nicolò Zaniolo scored the first away goal of his career in all competitions with the Roma shirt.
• Nicolò Zaniolo scored for the third match in a row in all competitions.
• Nicolò Zaniolo scored two goals with the last four shots in the league, after he had run dry with all 13 previous shots.
• Aleksandar Kolarov actively participated in a third of the goals scored by Roma in this league: four goals and two assists of the total 18 for the Giallorossi.
• Since his arrival at Roma (2017), Aleksandar Kolarov is the defender who has scored more goals in the five major European championships: 14.
• The last assist given away by Aleksandar Kolarov in Serie A dates back to March 2018 (vs Crotone). All the last five winning passes made by the Serbian in the top division had arrived at the Olimpico.
• First goal for Chris Smalling in his sixth appearance in Serie A. Roma's new signing was not targeted by September 15, 2018 in the Premier League against Watford.
• Third goal in Serie A for Justin Kluivert, the first away. Just 158 ​​seconds between Chris Smalling's and Justin Kluivert's goals.
• Paulo Fonseca is unbeaten in the first 13 games (6V, 6N) driving Roma in all competitions; the last coach to not have suffered defeats in his first 13 challenges at the helm of the Giallorossi was Rudi Garcia in the 2013/14 season (10V, 3N).

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THE TABLE
UDINESE-ROME 0-4
Udinese (3-5-2): Musso 5; Becao 4.5, Troost-Ekong 4.5, Samir 4; Ter Avest 5 (10 'st Nestorovski 5), Mandragora 4.5 (1' st Barak 5), Jajalo 5.5, De Paul 4.5, Sema 5; Okaka 5, Lasagna 5 (34 'st Pussetto sv). At disp .: Perisan, Nicolas, Sierralta, Fofana, Walace, Nuytinck, De Maio, Teodorczyk. All .: Tudor 4.5.
Rome (4-2-3-1): Lopez 6; Santon 6, Smalling 6.5, Fazio 5, Kolarov 6.5; Mancini 6.5, Veretout 6.5; Zaniolo 7 (33 'st Florenzi sv), Pastore 6.5 (25' st Cetin 6), Kluivert 7; Dzeko 6. Disp .: Mirante, Fuzato, Calafiori, Perotti, Antonucci, Spinazzola, Under. All .: Fonseca 6.5.
Referee: Irrati
Markers: 13 'Zaniolo, 6' st Smalling, 9 'st Kluivert, 20' st rig. Kolarov
Ammonites: Okaka, Jajalo, Barak, De Paul (U); Mancini, Dzeko (R)
Expelled: 31 'Fazio (R) for interrupting a clear scoring opportunity
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