Week 2 features a match on Sat Aug 20th, where Salernitana and Udinese will play a match in Udine in a meeting of these two evenly matched Serie A teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 24 degrees, a perfect day for football. 17th placed Udinese is fresh off their 2-4 loss against Milan. Rodrigo Becão struck first for Udinese in the 2nd minute, then Theo Hernández tied it up for Milan in the 11th minute But fortunately they were able to complete the comaback victory in the 46th minute on a goal by Brahim Díaz. Udinese looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 1 of their last 10, while in their last match, Salernitana recorded a 0-1 loss against Roma. Bryan Cristante scored the first goal for Roma in the 33rd minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Salernitana couldn’t manage to score, and Roma took the shutout win. Salernitana looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 1 of their last 10.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 1 win each.
Salernitana is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Erik Botheim and Franck Ribéry each only have 1 goal in their last five. Udinese’s most prolific scorer has been Isaac Success. He has netted two goals over the last five matches.