Roma 0-2 SPAL: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 20 October 2018

Result

Roma 0-2 SPAL

Serie A · Saturday 20 October 2018, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Roma · SPAL · Serie A predictions

Roma 0-2 SPAL: match report

Roma were beaten by SPAL 0-2 in Serie A on Saturday 20 October 2018. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Andrea Petagna opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Roma did not score. SPAL scored through Andrea Petagna (38', penalty) and Kevin Bonifazi (56').

Discipline: Roma received 3 yellow cards; SPAL received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Roma were 6th on 14 points from 8 and SPAL 14th on 9 points from 8. Roma went on to finish that season 6th with 66 points, and SPAL 13th with 42.

Roma lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and SPAL in a 3-1-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Kevin Bonifazi of SPAL (8.0), level with Nova Arianto (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Roma wins, 0 draws and 0 for SPAL.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 30'Yellow card · Simone MissiroliSPAL
  • 37'Yellow card · Luca PellegriniRoma
  • 38'Penalty goal · Andrea PetagnaSPAL · 0-1
  • 56'Goal · Kevin BonifaziSPAL · 0-2
  • 62'Yellow card · Cengiz ÜnderRoma
  • 64'Yellow card · A. PaloschiSPAL
  • 69'Yellow card · Everton LuizSPAL
  • 75'Second yellow · Vanja Milinković-SavićSPAL
  • 75'Yellow card · Vanja Milinković-SavićSPAL
  • 82'Yellow card · Federico FazioRoma

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Roma 2, draws 0, SPAL 0.

Team news

Roma line-up (4-2-3-1)

Robin Olsen, Alessandro Florenzi, Federico Fazio, Iván Marcano, Luca Pellegrini, Bryan Cristante, Steven Nzonzi, Cengiz Ünder, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Stephan El Shaarawy, Edin Džeko

SPAL line-up (3-1-4-2)

Vanja Milinković-Savić, Thiago Cionek, Francesco Vicari, Kevin Bonifazi, Nova Arianto, Manuel Lazzari, Simone Missiroli, Mattia Valoti, Filippo Costa, Andrea Petagna, Alberto Paloschi