Serie A | Udinese 1-2 Genoa: Impressive Grifone upset in Udine

Udinese had the ball in the net after nine minutes when the initial overhead kick from Jakub Piotrowski was charged down, then Keinan Davis turned in the rebound, but the offside flag went up. Moments later, the Friulani also lost Jordan Zemura to a muscular injury.

Jurgen Ekkelenkamp’s weak finish failed to trouble the goalkeeper, but Lorenzo Colombo pounced on a defensive error and was brought down by goalkeeper Maduka Okoye for a penalty, which Ruslan Malinovskyi converted successfully.

A long-range Rui Modesto scorcher was fingertipped over the bar, with Okoye doing the same at the other end on Vitinha’s curler after the restart.

Udinese defender Nicolò Bertola had a double chance on 51 minutes, as first Nicola Leali parried the control and volley at the near post, then on the resulting corner he thumped his finish onto the side-netting.

Piotrowski nodded a corner over from close range, but he did manage to draw level soon after. Patrizio Masini lost the ball to spark a counter-attack, then Rui Modesto rolled across from the left for Piotrowski to sweep first-time into the near top corner from 12 yards. It was his first goal in the Udinese shirt.

Colombo should’ve restored the Genoa lead with a diving header at the back post, but failed to make sufficient contact to surprise Okoye, while Zaniolo’s snapshot was straight at Leali.

Genoa surprised the Udinese defence with a well-worked move, as Caleb Ekuban got down the left and rolled across for Junior Messias, but he let it through for unmarked Norton-Cuffy to fire in at the back post.

It was wide open, moments later Buksa’s header looping just wide of the far top corner, while late on Sandi Lovric stung Leali’s gloves with a right-foot strike.

Udinese 1-2 Genoa

Malinovskyi pen 34 (G), Piotrowski 65 (U), Norton-Cuffy 83 (G)

08-12-2025 17:00 MatchDay 14 Friuli Stadium (Dacia Arena)

Udinese

Genoa 1 - 2

Player statistic

1st half

34'

Ruslan Malinovskyi 2nd half

Jakub Piotrowski (Assist: Rui Modesto)		65'
Jesper Karlström

66'         83'

Brooke Norton-Cuffy (Assist: Caleb Ekuban) Udinese Genoa

Starting lineups

40 Maduka Okoye Goalkeeper Alessandro Zanoli Defender 73' 27

Christian Kabasele Defender 33 Jordan Zemura Defender 15' 13 Nicolò Bertola Defender 28

Oumar Solet Defender 24

Jakub Piotrowski Midfielder 86' 8

Jesper Karlström Midfielder 32

Jurgen Ekkelenkamp Midfielder 86'

Nicolò Zaniolo Midfielder 9

Keinan Davis Attacker 73' 1 Nicola Leali Goalkeeper 3

Aarón Martín Defender 27 Alessandro Marcandalli Defender 15 Brooke Norton-Cuffy Defender 22

Johan Vásquez Defender 34 Sebastian Otoa Defender 2

Morten Thorsby Midfielder 73 Patrizio Masini Midfielder 17

Ruslan Malinovskyi Midfielder 76' 29 Lorenzo Colombo Attacker 76' 9 Vitinha Attacker

64'

Substitutes

93

Daniele Padelli Goalkeeper 90 Răzvan Sava Goalkeeper 6 Oier Zarraga Midfielder 31

Thomas Kristensen Defender 2 Saba Goglichidze Defender 16 Matteo Palma Defender 15

Vakoun Bayo Attacker 38 Lennon Miller Midfielder 29 Abdoulaye Camara Midfielder Idrissa Gueye Attacker 77 Rui Modesto Midfielder 15' 18

Adam Buksa Attacker 73' 19

Kingsley Ehizibue Defender 73' 17

Iker Bravo Attacker 86' 4

Sandi Lovric Midfielder 86' 20

Stefano Sabelli Defender 77

Mikael Egill Ellertsson Attacker 39 Daniele Sommariva Goalkeeper 70

Maxwel Cornet Attacker 8

Nicolae Stanciu Midfielder 14 Jean Onana Midfielder 23 Valentín Carboni Midfielder 40 Seydou Fini Attacker 30 Hugo Cuenca Midfielder 76 Lorenzo Venturino Attacker 35 Ernestas Lysionok Goalkeeper 18

Caleb Ekuban Attacker 64' 10

Junior Messias Attacker 76' 21

Jeff Ekhator Attacker

76'