Roma 2-0 Genoa: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 20 December 2015
Result
Roma 2-0 Genoa
Serie A · Sunday 20 December 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Roma 2-0 Genoa: match report
Roma won against Genoa 2-0 in Serie A on Sunday 20 December 2015. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Alessandro Florenzi opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Roma's goals came from Alessandro Florenzi (42') and Umar Sadiq (89'). Genoa did not score.
Discipline: Roma received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Genoa received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Roma were 5th on 29 points from 16 and Genoa 17th on 16 points from 16. Roma went on to finish that season 3rd with 80 points, and Genoa 10th with 46.
Roma lined up in a 4-3-3 and Genoa in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Alessandro Florenzi of Roma (8.6), ahead of Tomás Rincón (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Roma wins, 0 draws and 3 for Genoa.
Going into the match Roma's last five read D-D-L-D-W and Genoa's L-L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 9'Yellow card · Diego Laxalt
- 22'Yellow card · Radja Nainggolan
- 29'Yellow card · Alessandro Florenzi
- 35'Yellow card · Miralem Pjanic
- 42'Goal · Alessandro Florenzi
- 74'Red card · Edin Dzeko
- 89'Goal · Umar Sadiq
Head-to-head
Team news
Roma line-up (4-3-3)
Wojciech Szczesny, Antonio Rüdiger, Lucas Digne, Alessandro Florenzi, Konstantinos Manolas, Radja Nainggolan, Miralem Pjanić, Daniele De Rossi, Edin Džeko, Mohamed Salah, Gervinho
Genoa line-up (3-4-3)
Mattia Perin, Cristian Ansaldi, Sebastien De Maio, Ezequiel Muñoz, Armando Izzo, Panagiotis Tachtsidis, Tomás Rincón, Diego Laxalt, Serge Gakpé, Diego Capel, Olivier Ntcham