This week Roma will host Udinese at home and they must target this win if they want to overtake Fiorentina in the standings. In the previous match, Roma only drew against Lazio and Udinese also got a similar result against Atalanta. Of course, Udinese is not an opponent that can be beaten easily and with Udinese's increasingly improving motivation when facing teams that are much stronger, of course they will always perform optimally. However, I think that if Roma are not able to score 1 goal in this match then the match will definitely end in a draw, but if Roma is able to do that then there will be more goals scored, especially as Lukaku is currently on fire.
The Roma team is in very good form right now. In Roma's last 9 matches, they have lost only against Inter Milan. Roma lost the match by a narrow margin of 1-0. And only a goalless draw with Lazio. Roma team also won the remaining 7 matches. Consistently we see good performances from Roma.
Udinese on the other hand is a team whose main goal is to draw the match. Out of 12 matches in Serie A, they have drawn 8 and won one. And playing against such teams is risky. Winning is also very difficult. If Roma team wants to win against Udinese then the attacking players will have to play very well. If not, they will not be able to break Udinese's defense.
Roma has indeed been able to recover so far and they have done it without anything really detrimental. We know that at the start of the season Roma were quite in trouble and they often missed opportunities to win and make them experience a place at the bottom of the table. Luckily, Mourinho immediately prevented this from happening and they were able to win consistently and have now put themselves in a much better position.
I think Udinese is a team like that and from the start it was very difficult for them to win or lose so a draw would make this match quite detrimental for Roma if it happened. But as I said before, Lukaku is performing impressively in the international break and he can apply that again when strengthening Roma later.
Lukaku was a key owned by udinese to win the match. I meant let's say that if udinese will able to perform better and lukaku is the only hope owned by roma to win the game against it. Anyone would be thinking if roma was superior compared with udinese and this is true but, it will also depend on the gameplay of roma against it. I don't wanna say roma may be playing so badly but this club is sometimes struggling against the bad club. Udinese were in the same level as sassuolo and bologna.
Roma needs to be careful caused by surprise may come anytime from udinese. The impressive performance from lukaku in euro qualified may also affect his performance in the serie as well.
Im waiting for him to score a few goals against udinese. Lukaku is starting to show how good he is even though he was joining in the middle tier club like roma.