Roma – Udinese 3-0: He got a golden treble in the fight for the Champions League

What if Paulo Dybala is out and Tammy Abraham (75th-minute substitute) sits on the bench with injury problems from the Europa League quarter-final first leg against Feyenoord?

Jose Mourinho seems to be pulling rabbits out of a hat lately and that is exactly what happened on Easter Sunday (16/4) against Udinese as Roma celebrated a superb 3-0 home win – for the umpteenth time this year – Olimpic and To Leap into the new Champions League.

Beauvais opened the scoring in the 37th minute, deflecting Cristade’s missed penalty and Pellegrini scored twice for his team in the 55th minute, with Rui Patricio ‘securing’ the Romans’ victory by scoring in the 69th minute Pereira’s penalty interception. and Tammy Abraham put the icing on the cake with a 3-0 lead in injury time.

A result that not only marked Roma’s third consecutive LaLiga win, but put them in 3rd place alone, now three points ahead of 4th Milan and five ahead of 5th Inter, who are at odds with one place fights among the privileged top 4.

The match

Roma had a very big chance ahead of them to cement themselves in third place after defeats by Milan (1-1 away in Bologna) and Inter (0-1 in Monza) and grabbed them by the hair, with the team of Jose Mourinho will be the boss of the game against Udinese, giving the “Zebras” three goals.

The goal dance began in the first half for the home team when Cristante put the ball on the white ball in a penalty won by Belotti (a header caught the ball in Pereira’s hand) and sent the ball to the left post but Beauvais took it the rebound and beating Silvestri in the 37th minute.

In the second half Roma played on the counterattack and in the 55th minute the special’s plan worked, Belotti carried the ball from long yards and put Pellegrini in firing position with a superb vertical ball that made it 2 – 0.

It was his first goal in open play since October 2021 and in the 69th minute it was another Mourinho man’s turn to take the hero mantle, with Patricio Pereira’s penalty saved.

It was the last chance for Andrea Sotil’s side to get back into the game, Abraham made it 3-0 at 90+1 with his first goal in two months and the Giallorossi boosted their confidence ahead of the second leg against Feyenoord where they compete will claim qualification for the semi-finals of the Europa League in a few 24 hours.

• ROMA: Patricio, Mancini, Smalling, Llorente, Celik (Spinazola 75), Cristante, Bove, El Saarawi (Zalewski 75), Wijnaldum (Matic 60), Pellegrini (Tahirovic 90), Belotti (Abraham 75)
• UDINES: Silvestri, Bekao, Bigol, Peres, Ezhibue (71 Embosele), Samardzic (78 Pafudi), Wallace, Lovric (78 Nestorovski), UdodjI (86 Masina), Pereira, Saxon (79 Toven)

The results of the 30th game day

• Cremonese – Empoli 1-0 (4′ deserts)
• Spezia – Lazio 0-3 (36′ Pen. Property, 52′ Anderson, 89′ Antonio)
• Bologna – Milan 1-1 (1′ Sansone / 40′ Pombega)
• Naples – Verona 0-0
• Inter-Monza 0-1 (78′ Caldirola)
• Lecce-Samdoria 1-1 (31′ Cisey / 75′ Hessen)
• Turin – Salernitana 1-1 (57′ Sanabria / 9′ Filena)
• Sassuolo – Juventus 1-0 (64′ Defrel)
• Roma – Udinese 3-0 (37′ Beauvais, 55′ Pellegrini, 90+1′ Abraham)
• 04/17 21:45 Florence – Atalanta

The highlights

Napoli – Verona 0-0

Spezia – Lazio 0-3

Cremonese-Empoli 1-0

Bologna – Milan 1-1

Lecce – Sampdoria 1-1

Torino – Salernitana 1-1

The program of the 31st game day

• 21/04 21:45 Verona-Bologna
• 22/04 16:00 Salernitana-Sassuolo
• 22/04 19:00 Lazio – Turin
• 22/04 21:45 Samdoria-Spezia
• 23/04 13:30 Empoli – Inter
• 23/04 16:00 Udinese – Cremonese
• 23/04 16:00 Monza – Florence
• 23/04 19:00 Milan – Lecce
• 23/04 21:45 Juventus – Naples
• 24/04 21:45 Atalanta-Roma