Roma 5-2 Benevento: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 18 October 2020
Result
Roma 5-2 Benevento
Serie A · Sunday 18 October 2020, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
Roma 5-2 Benevento: match report
Roma beat Benevento 5-2 in Serie A on Sunday 18 October 2020. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Gianluca Caprari opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Roma's goals came from Pedro (31'), Edin Dzeko (35'), Jordan Veretout (69', penalty), Edin Dzeko (77') and Carles Pérez (89'). Benevento scored through Gianluca Caprari (5') and Gianluca Lapadula (55').
Discipline: Roma received 3 yellow cards; Benevento received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Roma were 11th on 4 points from 3 and Benevento 8th on 6 points from 3. Roma went on to finish that season 7th with 62 points, and Benevento 18th with 33.
Roma lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Benevento in a 4-3-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Edin Džeko of Roma (8.5), ahead of Henrikh Mkhitaryan (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Roma wins, 0 draws and 0 for Benevento.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Gianluca Caprari
- 31'Goal · Pedro
- 32'Yellow card · Pasquale Schiattarella
- 33'Yellow card · Roger Ibañez
- 35'Goal · Edin Dzeko
- 53'Yellow card · Jordan Veretout
- 55'Missed penalty · Gianluca Lapadula
- 55'Goal · Gianluca Lapadula
- 65'Yellow card · Davide Santon
- 69'Penalty goal · Jordan Veretout
- 77'Goal · Edin Dzeko
- 82'Yellow card · Daam Foulon
- 89'Goal · Carles Pérez
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Amadou Diawara
- Nicolas Viola
- Riccardo Calafiori
- Gabriele Moncini
- Javier Pastore
- Rick Karsdorp
- Chris Smalling
- Federico Barba
Roma line-up (4-2-3-1)
Antonio Mirante, José Faria, Gianluca Mancini, Roger Ibañez, Leonardo Spinazzola, Bryan Cristante, Jordan Veretout, Pedro, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Edin Džeko
Benevento line-up (4-3-2-1)
Lorenzo Montipò, Gaetano Letizia, Kamil Glik, Luca Caldirola, Daam Foulon, Artur Ioniță, Pasquale Schiattarella, Bryan Dabo, Iago Falque, Gianluca Caprari, Gianluca Lapadula