Roma thrashed hosts Udinese 5-2 on Saturday evening in the tenth round of the Italian league.<\/p>\n
The win lifted Roma to 24 points and third place in Serie A, just one behind joint-leaders Inter Milan and Lazio. Udinese stay stuck on 5 points in second-to-last place.<\/p>\n
The Calciomercato website ran through the key moments of a match that Roma made look remarkably easy, catching Udinese in the middle of one of their worst runs of the season.<\/p>\n
Bryan Cristante opened the scoring with a tenth-minute header, nodding home a Wesley cross. Roma then spurned two gilt-edged chances as Matias Soule and Donyell Malen both struck the post.<\/p>\n
The visitors didn’t wait long to double their lead. Rodrigo Mora made it 2-0 in the 32nd minute, latching onto a Cristante through ball inside the box.<\/p>\n
Two minutes later came the third. Malen gathered a pass from Soule, controlled it and lashed the ball into the net with his left foot.<\/p>\n
Evan Ndicka completed Roma’s quartet in the 38th minute, heading home a Soule corner as the Bluenergy Stadium turned on their own Udinese players with jeers.<\/p>\n
Roma eased off after the break, content with their lead, and Gasperini rang the changes to rest several players. That handed Udinese the initiative and a sniff of a comeback.<\/p>\n
Nicolo Zaniolo struck against his former club in the 50th minute. Lennon Miller fired in from outside the box, the ball deflected off a defender and forced Gollini into a save, only for Zaniolo to follow up and bundle it in.<\/p>\n
Udinese’s second arrived in the 78th minute. Matteo Palma pounced on a clearance from Hassane Kamara and volleyed a superb first-time effort into the net. Unai Gomez nearly narrowed the gap further on 84 minutes, his powerful strike flashing past the right post as Gollini dived to track it.<\/p>\n
The fightback fizzled out. Their attacking threat dried up, and Roma landed the final blow. Two minutes into stoppage time, Daniele Ghilardi made it five, breaking from the back onto a Castro pass before drilling a powerful shot home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roma thrashed hosts Udinese 5-2 on Saturday evening in the tenth round of the Italian league. The win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,60479,25548,105,119484,298543],"class_list":["post-663077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-roma","tag-serie-a","tag-sports","tag-udinese","tag-udinese-vs-roma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}