Udinese-Roma 1-2: two penalties overturn the Friulians, first away victory for the Giallorossi

Udine 26 January 2025 – 276 days have passed since the last time, but in the end the taboo has been broken. The Rome wins against theUdinese for 1-2 and finds the first away success of their season. The Giallorossi need two penalties to overturn the initial advantage of Lucca, but Pellegrini e dovbyk they are glacial and carry the yellow and red team in triumph. Ranieri celebrates a very precious success and the Capitoline team begins to break away from the mid-table group in the standings. For the Friulians, however, another failed exam of maturity, for an excellent season, but which fails to make the Bianconeri emerge from the middle of the group

First half

For the challenge against the Giallorossi Runjaic largely confirms the predictions of the day before. In front of Sava there are Kirstensen, jewelry e Touré to form the defensive line. Lovric, Karlstrom e Payero they are the three in the center circle, supported on the lanes by Rui Modesto to the right and from Zemura on the left. At the end Lucca wins the ballot with Sanchez and accompanies Thauvin in the attacking pair. For Ranieri instead there are new faces on the pitch and novelties compared to the team of the previous days. In front of Silker there are Steel, Mancini e N'Dicka, while he makes his debut in midfield Rensch in the right lane with Angelino on the opposite side. It is pisilli the companion in the middle of Koné, while they rest both Paredes, both Dybala: in attack in fact to support dovbyk there are Baldanzi e Pellegrini.

The game is physical from the start: many rough tackles, but always within the limits of the rules. Unfortunately he pays a high price for it Touré, which after a contrast with pisilli remains on the ground. Forced to intervene by paramedics, the player is escorted out on a stretcher and after just 8' is forced to leave the field, in his place comes on Kabasele. The Rome tries to take control of the match, asserting his technical superiority, but the challenge is very blocked, due to the perfect defensive organization of the Friulians. The match does not take off and to see opportunities it is necessary to wait for the errors of one or the other side. One of these is committed by Steel in the 21st minute, but he manages to make up for it by showing the first yellow card of the match, to stop the Friulian counterattack.

The contest gradually begins to heat up and finally heats up around the half hour mark when both goalkeepers start to get their gloves dirty. The first shot is thrown by Rensch in the 26th minute when he coordinates well from the edge of the area and looks for the bottom corner with his left foot: he stretches out Sava to deflect into a corner. On the developments of the corner kick, however, N'Dicka, after a scramble to find the goal, but his attempt ends wide of the Friulian goal. Udinese however reacts and first misses an excellent counterattack in numerical superiority, having a faulty management of the ball, then tries with Kristensen with a header on a cross from a corner, but he blocks it without any problems Silker.

The two occasions seem to have definitively unlocked the match and after the first attempts, the goal also arrives quickly. At minute 37' Pellegrini he spends a rather naive foul on Lovric, also costing him the yellow card. On the set piece, the cross from three-quarters of the pitch by the same Slovenian: Lucca caught in the penalty area, chest control and right foot shot under the crossbar. Beaten Silker, L 'Udinese is ahead 1-0, with the goal confirmed after a very long VAR review, regarding the starting position of the Juventus striker. Rome tries to react, but it is the black and whites who come close to doubling the score on more than one occasion, only to then experience a small thrill on the action that closes the six minutes of injury time: dovbyk in fact he pushes the cross into the goal Steel, but the goal is disallowed for offside by the Ukrainian. The hosts thus manage to close the first half ahead with the result of 1-0.

Second half

Ranieri changes the balance in the team at half-time: in fact he enters Shomurodov, as he goes out Steel; Uzbek goes alongside dovbyk in attack, while Pellegrini he drops to the midfield line, with Baldanzi e pisilli to share the role of winger. No substitutions instead in the Friuli home. Burning start by the Giallorossi, who with the new formation seemed to have a different confidence and trust, in fact in just 5 minutes the Capitoline team found the equalizer. Pellegrini look for the ball that is being passed to attack the penalty area, Kabasele touch with your hand and Dirty commands the penalty. From the spot the same number 7 takes the ball and scores, kicking centrally, the goal of 1-1 when the match has reached the 50th minute of play.

La Rome but he insists, while theUdinese She doesn't appear to have left the locker room yet. Karlstrom spends a yellow to stop the restart of dovbyk. Ranieri on the bench he feels the opportunity to overtake and presses the accelerator sending the team onto the pitch El Shaarawy in place of Baldanzi. The pharaoh himself is inserted in the beautiful external opening of Shomurodov, anticipa Sava on the ball he gets knocked down by the opposing goalkeeper: Dirty once again he is well positioned and commands the penalty again. This time he goes from the spot dovbyk, who chooses to cross his left foot, displacing the Friulian goalkeeper and signing the Giallorossi overtaking. The Bluenergy Stadium is frozen, the Rome is ahead 1-2 after having closed the first half at a disadvantage.

On the advantage of Roma, Runjaic tries to shake up the team with a couple of changes: they come in Ekkelenkamp e Atta, respectively for Lovric e Atta; thus opening a waltz of changes that lasted for several minutes. Ranieri responds with Zalewski for Rensch, while on the other side the Friulians' coach is playing it all or nothing with two super offensive entries: in fact there are pafundi e Sanchez for Payero e Modesto, thus building a large chain of support behind Lucca. Rainier instead he relies on Crystalline e Dybala to ice the match, going to replace the two goal scorers Pellegrini e dovbyk. A few moments before these last Roma substitutions, he was cautioned Atta, for having stopped the restart of the Rome.

In the end theUdinese tries with courage, despite the fatigue of a very generous match, to pour forward, while the Giallorossi alternate moments of management with others of counterattacks where they look for the goal to close the match. The result is a sparkling finale, with Silker forced to make a couple of complicated exits to avoid the Friulian headers, Lucca above all. The four minutes of injury time are pure suffering for the Giallorossi, who however also have to despair, due to the double chance of Shomurodov failed in the final, thanks both to the readiness of the black and white rearguard and to a bit of bad luck for the Asian striker. However, the Giallorossi mission is accomplished and at the final whistle Dirty they kept their lead. At the Bluenergy Stadium Udinese ko for 1-2 and Rome winning away again 276 days after their last away win.