Parma 0-0 Udinese: Two Sides With Identical Records, and Neither Can Find a Way Out

Eight games, 1 win, 1 draw, 6 defeats, 4 points. Parma's and Udinese's records are identical, line for line. Tonight's 0-0 doesn't change that: it confirms it.

Parma are 19th, Udinese 17th. For both, it's the only draw of the league season, arriving on a night when neither side found the net.

The attacks: the real problem

The league numbers explain why it ended this way. Parma have scored 5 goals in 8 games, Udinese 9. Two attacks that struggle to carry any bite.

Recent form makes the picture worse. Parma came into the game having lost 4 of their last 5, all in Serie A: 4 goals scored and 11 conceded. Two of the last three were games without a goal: 0-3 at home to Torino and 0-3 away at Inter. The latest, away at Lazio, ended 1-2. The only win in that spell is the 2-1 over Genoa on 20 September.

Udinese, across their last 5 games in the league plus a friendly, hadn't won once: 1 draw (1-1 with Pogon Szczecin, a friendly) and 4 defeats, with 2 goals scored and 9 conceded. Three times out of 5 they finished without scoring: 0-2 against Milan, 0-3 against Lecce, 0-1 against Cagliari. The fourth loss, 1-2, came away at Torino.

Seen that way, the 0-0 makes sense. Two teams that score little and concede a lot found a night when the goal stayed shut at both ends. For Parma it ends a run of conceding: in the previous 5 games they had let in at least 1 in every one. The same goes for Udinese: in all of the previous 5, friendly included, they had conceded at least once. This time they didn't concede, but they didn't score either.

What the head-to-head said

In the 5 most recent meetings, Udinese had won 3 and Parma 1, with 1 draw. That made 13 goals in total. There was no 0-0 in there: the draw in that run was a 2-2 in February 2021. The last two meetings were low-scoring but had a winner: 1-0 to Parma away in April, 2-0 to Udinese at Parma in November 2025.

Udinese's main attacking reference is J. Ekkelenkamp: 3 goals and 1 assist in the league, 3 of the team's 9 goals. This time he didn't change the game.

What it changes in the table

Not much. Both stay on 4 points, Udinese 17th and Parma 19th. The balance between goals scored and conceded is heavy for both: Udinese have scored 9 and conceded 18, Parma 5 and 15.

What to watch

In the coming rounds there's just one question, the same for both: who finds goals first. Parma have to stop losing by wide margins, Udinese have to rediscover the net: 2 in the last 5. Keep an eye on the bottom of the table: if it moves, tonight's draw will become the starting point for one of the two.