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Roma beat Udinese 5-2 away on Halloween night
·1 November 2026·2h ago

Roma beat Udinese 5-2 away on Halloween night

Source: Roma News

Roma won 5-2 away at Udinese, taking three crucial points and staying close to the top of the Serie A table. Playing on Halloween night, the Giallorossi frightened the Friulani, although their intensity dropped in the second half.

The win keeps Roma within reach of the summit at a key stage of the season. The result came on Halloween night, with the team scoring five times on the road.

The article was accompanied by a cartoon from loyal reader Michele dall'Oman, who sketched the match in his latest drawing.

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Roma beat Udinese 5-2 away on Halloween night, taking three points that keep them close to the top of Serie A. According to GialloRossi.net, the match was effectively settled in the first ten minutes, when Bryan Cristante headed Roma in front from Wesley's cross. Soulé and Malen both hit the woodwork in the first half, and Mora, Malen and Ndicka scored to give Roma four goals in the first 37 minutes. Ghilardi added the fifth with a right-foot strike. Five different Roma players scored, which the outlet called the most encouraging statistic of the evening, and Roma have now scored 28 goals in ten league matches. Udinese's Zaniolo and Palma replied after the break, when the hosts conceded too easily in the early minutes of the second half.

GialloRossi.net singled out Cristante as probably the best player on the pitch, and said Mora confirmed he can be decisive even from the start. It also reported that Gasperini credited the team's mentality as much as its football, and that his remark that he sees himself in this side was one of the season's most significant. The outlet flagged one area for improvement: Castro looked less influential than Malen despite his assist for Ghilardi. A separate Roma News headline gives the score as 4-2, but its article contains no match detail, so the 5-2 result is the one the other coverage confirms.

The result leaves Roma with the Champions League trip to Manchester on Tuesday, at Old Trafford. Before kickoff, Roma News pundits had called the Udinese game a must-win, while GialloRossi.net noted that Udinese had collected only five points from their first nine matches, their worst start in the three-points-for-a-win era.

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“La Roma batte l’Udinese in trasferta con un sonoro 5-2 e conquista altri tre punti fondamentali per restare vicina alla vetta della classifica. Nel giorni di Halloween i giallorossi ‘spaventano’ i friulani pur calando d’intensità nel secondo tempo. Di questo ci parla il nostro affezionato lettore…”

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