SPAL 2-1 Roma: result and report
Serie A · Saturday 16 March 2019
Result
SPAL 2-1 Roma
Serie A · Saturday 16 March 2019, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
SPAL 2-1 Roma: match report
SPAL won against Roma 2-1 in Serie A on Saturday 16 March 2019. The half-time score was 1-0.
Mohamed Fares opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. SPAL's goals came from Mohamed Fares (22') and Andrea Petagna (59', penalty). Roma scored through Diego Perotti (53', penalty).
Discipline: SPAL received 4 yellow cards; Roma received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game SPAL were 16th on 23 points from 27 and Roma 5th on 47 points from 27. SPAL went on to finish that season 13th with 42 points, and Roma 6th with 66.
SPAL lined up in a 3-5-2 and Roma in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Diego Perotti of Roma (7.8), ahead of Mohamed Fares (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 SPAL win, 0 draws and 2 for Roma.
Going into the match SPAL's last five read L-L-D-L-L and Roma's W-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 5'Yellow card · Francesco Vicari
- 22'Goal · Mohamed Fares
- 40'Yellow card · S. Nzonzi
- 45+2'Yellow card · Edin Dzeko
- 52'Yellow card · Thiago Cionek
- 53'Penalty goal · Diego Perotti
- 54'Yellow card · Mohamed Fares
- 57'Yellow card · Juan Jesus
- 59'Penalty goal · Andrea Petagna
- 63'Yellow card · Diego Perotti
- 64'Yellow card · Simone Missiroli
- 69'Yellow card · Bryan Cristante
Head-to-head
Team news
SPAL line-up (3-5-2)
Emiliano Viviano, Thiago Cionek, Francesco Vicari, Kevin Bonifazi, Manuel Lazzari, Alessandro Murgia, Simone Missiroli, Jasmin Kurtic, Mohamed Fares, Andrea Petagna, Mirco Antenucci
Roma line-up (4-4-2)
Robin Olsen, Rick Karsdorp, Federico Fazio, Iván Marcano, Juan Jesus, Justin Kluivert, Bryan Cristante, Steven Nzonzi, Stephan El Shaarawy, Patrik Schick, Edin Džeko