Serie A

Roma-Verona: two sides with different objectives

Easter Saturday will come to an end at the Olimpico, where Roma and Venezia will fight it out for crucial points

Important points are at stake at the Olimpico, where Roma are set to face Verona. After seven consecutive wins, the hosts have drawn their last two matches – against Juventus and Lazio – which has hindered their chances of finishing in the top four. Now, the Giallorossi want to return to winning ways to reignite their hopes of ending in a Champions League spot. Verona, meanwhile, could go five games unbeaten as they aim for a victory that could all but secure their Serie A status.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Hellas Verona have won four of their last nine games against Roma in Serie A, including one awarded win in 2020 (D1 L4), as many wins as they achieved in their previous 46 games against the Giallorossi in the competition (D15 L27). Roma are unbeaten in 27 home games against Hellas Verona in Serie A (W21 D6); only against Atalanta and Bari (30) have the Giallorossi had a longer unbeaten run at home in the competition.

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Roma are unbeaten in their last 16 league games, thanks to 11 wins and five draws, and have not done better in a single championship since the end of the 2015/16 season, when under Luciano Spalletti they went 17 unbeaten. Hellas Verona have drawn each of their last three league games, after having won three and lost four in their previous seven; the Gialloblù have not drawn more consecutive games in the competition since the period between May and October 2000, when they had four. Hellas Verona's last four first halves away from home in Serie A have ended 0-0; the Gialloblù have had more consecutive first halves away from home without a goal for or against since 1990 (five in that case). Roma have scored nine goals from outside the box in Serie A this season, including one on the last matchday against Lazio; no team have done better in the 2024/25 in Serie A (nine also Atalanta and Fiorentina). Hellas Verona have conceded the most goals both in the first quarter of an hour of the match (10) and in the first half hour (25); in percentage terms, they have conceded 61% of their goals in the first half (36/59), the most in the current Serie A campaign.

PLAYERS

Matías Soulé, who scored in the last matchday, has scored twice against Hellas Verona in Serie A and has only done better against Cagliari (three); the Giallorossi player has not scored in two consecutive games in the competition since the period between December 2023 and January 2024, when the first of the two goals was against Lazio. Lorenzo Montipò has kept eight clean sheets in the 2024/25 Serie A season — matching his personal best in a single campaign (also eight in 2023/24). Only two Hellas Verona goalkeepers have recorded more clean sheets in a top-flight season during the three points for a win era: Marco Silvestri in 2019/20 (nine) and Sébastien Frey in 1999/00 (12).

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: none Cautioned: Paredes, Pellegrini (Roma); Suslov, Coppola (Hellas Verona)

REFEREE

PAIRETTO (MOKHTAR – CIPRESSA) IV: FELICIANI, VAR: MAZZOLENI, AVAR: ABISSO

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A

Inter-Roma (Saturday 26 April, 18.00 CEST) Hellas Verona-Cagliari (Monday 28 April, 20.45 CEST) (Photo Getty Images)