Roma 5-2 Novara: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 1 April 2012

Result

Roma 5-2 Novara

Serie A · Sunday 1 April 2012, 10:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

Roma · Novara · Serie A predictions

Roma 5-2 Novara: match report

Roma beat Novara 5-2 in Serie A on Sunday 1 April 2012. The half-time score was 2-1.

Andrea Caracciolo opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Roma's goals came from Marquinho (25'), Pablo Osvaldo (35'), Fábio Simplício (55'), Bojan Krkic (61') and Erik Lamela (90+2'). Novara scored through Andrea Caracciolo (17') and Takayuki Morimoto (78').

Discipline: Roma received 1 yellow card; Novara received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Roma were 6th on 44 points from 29 and Novara 19th on 24 points from 29. Roma went on to finish that season 7th with 56 points, and Novara 19th with 32.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Roma win, 0 draws and 0 for Novara.

Going into the match Roma's last five read L-W-W-L-L and Novara's D-W-W-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Andrea CaraccioloNovara · 0-1
  • 25'Goal · MarquinhoRoma · 1-1
  • 35'Goal · Pablo OsvaldoRoma · 2-1
  • 55'Goal · Fábio SimplícioRoma · 3-1
  • 58'Yellow card · M. PaciNovara
  • 61'Goal · Bojan KrkicRoma · 4-1
  • 62'Yellow card · Bojan KrkicRoma
  • 78'Goal · Takayuki MorimotoNovara · 4-2
  • 90+2'Goal · Erik LamelaRoma · 5-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Roma 1, draws 0, Novara 0.

Team news

Roma expected line-up

Aleandro Rosi, Simon Kjær, Taddei, Miralem Pjanić, Daniele De Rossi, David Pizarro, Francesco Totti, Marco Borriello

Novara line-up (5-3-2)

Samir Ujkani, Giuseppe Gemiti, Andrea Lisuzzo, Michel Morganella, Santiago García, Mikkel Rygaard Jensen, Filippo Porcari, Simone Pesce, Jeda, Andrea Caracciolo, Massimo Paci