Torino vs. Udinese, two teams level on points

Torino vs. Udinese will get the Easter Monday action underway at the Olimpico Grande Torino. The hosts, whose six-game unbeaten run came to an end against Como last week, want to return to winning ways. This also applies to Udinese, who have lost their last four matches – against Verona, Inter, Genoa and AC Milan – and want to finish the day ahead of the Granata.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Torino have won six of their last seven games (D1) against Udinese in the second half of the Serie A season, keeping a clean sheet in each of these victories, as many clean sheets as the Granata had in their previous 18 matches against the Friulians in the second half of the season. After six consecutive defeats in Serie A between 2003 and 2008 against Udinese, Torino have lost the same number of matches against the Friulians across the following 26 in the top-flight (W14 D6): the last defeat dates to 6 February 2022 (0-2 at the Bluenergy Stadium). Udinese have failed to score in 18 of their 39 Serie A games played away to Torino, or in 46% of their away games: only against Parma (48%) and Atalanta (49%) have the Friulians done worse in terms of away goals in the topflight (min. 15 away games).

DID YOU KNOW?

Il Torino non ha perso alcuna delle sette partite (3V, 4N) disputate all’Olimpico Grande Torino nel 2025; la squadra granata potrebbe restare imbattuta nelle prime otto sfide interne di un anno solare in Serie A per la prima volta dal 2017, sotto la gestione di Sinisa Mihajlovic (sei pareggi, due vittorie in quel caso). Udinese have lost each of their last four league games, with an overall score of 1-8; the Friulians could suffer five consecutive defeats in a single Serie A tournament for the first time since February-April 2018: 11 defeats in a row in that case, with Massimo Oddo as coach. Torino have conceded 11 headed goals in Serie A this season (only fewer than Monza with 17); however, only two of these have come at home: the last one in November against the Brianza team. On the other hand, Udinese have scored nine goals via headers (only fewer than Atalanta with 11 and Inter with 14): one of these against the Granata in the first leg (Lorenzo Lucca). Torino move the ball forward slowly; indeed, the Granata have a direct speed of 1.55 meters per second: the lowest among the teams in the current championship.

PLAYERS

After his goal against Hellas Verona, Eljif Elmas could score in consecutive home matches for the first time in 74 Serie A home games, since January 2023, with the first of these two matches (both with the Napoli shirt) against Udinese. Lorenzo Lucca is the youngest player (September 2000) to have reached double figures for goals in this championship; however, the Udinese striker has not scored in six Serie A games (his last goal was in February against Lecce) and has only once gone more games in a row without scoring in the tournament: nine between January and March 2024.

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: Coco (Torino) Cautioned: Gineitis, Lazaro (Torino); Ehizibue, Giannetti, Kristensen, Lovric, Payero, Lucca, Bijol (Udinese)

REFEREE

COLLU (SCATRAGLI – BIANCHINI) IV: FERRIERI CAPUTI, VAR: GARIGLIO, AVAR: MAZZOLENI

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A

Napoli-Torino (Sunday 27 April, 20.45 CEST) Udinese-Bologna (Monday 28 April, 18.30 CEST) (Photo Getty Images)