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Serie A | Verona 0-2 Roma: Malen guarantees Champions League

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Skip to contentVERONA, ITALY - MAY 24: Donyell Malen of AS Roma celebrates scoring his team's first goal with teammates during the Serie A match between Hellas Verona FC and AS Roma at Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi on May 24, 2026 in Verona, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)VERONA, ITALY – MAY 24: Donyell Malen of AS Roma celebrates scoring his team’s first goal with teammates during the Serie A match between Hellas Verona FC and AS Roma at Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi on May 24, 2026 in Verona, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)

Donyell Malen saw his penalty saved, but turned in on the rebound from Paulo Dybala’s assist to send Roma into the Champions League with Stephan El Shaarawy.

The Giallorossi knew a win here would guarantee a top four finish, but Wesley was suspended after the fiery Derby della Capitale, with Evan Ndicka, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Bryan Zaragoza and Evan Ferguson injured. Both Matias Soulé and Niccolò Pisilli started in support of Paulo Dybala and Donyell Malen. Hellas were relegated weeks ago, but drew three of their last four games, including against Juventus and Inter. Roberto Gagliardini sat out a ban, with Daniel Mosquera, Suat Serdar and Daniel Oyegoke sidelined.

See how it all unfolded on the Liveblog.

VERONA, ITALY – MAY 24: Players of AS Roma pose for a team photograph prior to the Serie A match between Hellas Verona FC and AS Roma at Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi on May 24, 2026 in Verona, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)

It was an aggressive start from the hosts, as Kieron Bowie tested Mile Svilar in the opening minute, while Bryan Cristante drilled wide for Roma.

The visitors took a while to get going, as Paulo Dybala’s free kick was acrobatically palmed out from under the crossbar by Lorenzo Montipò.

Verona had a huge opportunity just before half-time, as Svilar rushed off his line for a desperate one-handed save to deny Bowie one-on-one.

Dybala curled a free kick wide of the near post, but there were two incidents in quick succession to change the game. First Lautaro Valentini received his second yellow card for his foul on Dybala, then the Matias Soulé free kick was palmed away.

Moments later Bowie’s handling offence was spotted by VAR for a penalty. Malen stepped up and saw his spot-kick parried by Montipò, but he was able to bundle the rebound over the line from a Dybala assist to put Roma in front.

VERONA, ITALY – MAY 24: Gianluca Mancini of AS Roma crosses the ball during the Serie A match between Hellas Verona FC and AS Roma at Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi on May 24, 2026 in Verona, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)

Soulé forced another tricky save from Montipò, then the goalkeeper used his legs to parry from Dybala after a Devyne Rensch counter-attack.

Roma wasted several situations to lock down the win with Malen, who first couldn’t get his head to a strong cross, then ran onto the Stephan El Shaarawy pass only to narrow the angle too much.

They did add the cherry on the cake in stoppages with Stephan El Shaarawy, finishing off his last game for Roma with a goal to send them back into the Champions League.

Verona 0-2 Roma

Malen 56 (R), El Shaarawy 93 (R)

Sent off: Valentini 50 (V)

Saved penalty: Malen 56 (R)

24-05-2026 19:45

MatchDay 38

Stadio Marcantonio BentegodiVERROM0 – 2

Player statistic

Nicolás Valentini 35'
Nicolás Valentini 50'
56' Donyell Malen(Assist: Paulo Dybala)
56' Donyell Malen
71' Jan Ziolkowski
90+3' Stephan El Shaarawy(Assist: Paulo Dybala)

VER

ROM

Starting lineups

1

Lorenzo Montipò
Goalkeeper

5

Andrias Edmundsson
Defender

3

Martin Frese
Defender

70′

6

Nicolás Valentini
Defender

7

Rafik Belghali
Defender

86′

15

Victor Nelsson
Defender

21

Abdou Harroui
Midfielder

70′

11

Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro
Midfielder

4

Sandi Lovric
Midfielder

58′

18

Kieron Bowie
Attacker

10

Tomas Suslov
Attacker

58′

99

Mile Svilar
Goalkeeper

87

Daniele Ghilardi
Defender

46′

2

Devyne Rensch
Defender

23

Gianluca Mancini
Defender

22

Mario Hermoso
Defender

19

Zeki Celik
Defender

4

Bryan Cristante
Midfielder

61

Niccolò Pisilli
Midfielder

46′

14

Donyell Malen
Attacker

84′

18

Matìas Soulé
Attacker

72′

21

Paulo Dybala
Attacker

Substitutes

34

Simone Perilli
Goalkeeper

24

Antoine Bernede
Midfielder

14

Pol Lirola
Defender

36

Cheikh Niasse
Attacker

94

Giacomo Toniolo
Goalkeeper

72

Junior Ajayi
Attacker

19

Tobias Slotsager
Defender

70

Fallou Cham
Defender

30

Luca Szimionaș
Midfielder

41

Isaac
Attacker

37

Armel Bella-Kotchap
Defender

58′

73

Moatasem Al-Musrati
Midfielder

58′

12

Domagoj Bradaric
Defender

70′

9

Amin Sarr
Attacker

70′

90

Ioan Vermesan
Attacker

86′

3

Angeliño
Defender

95

Pierluigi Gollini
Goalkeeper

9

Artem Dovbyk
Attacker

70

Giorgio De Marzi
Goalkeeper

20

Lorenzo Venturino
Attacker

91

Radoslaw Zelezny
Goalkeeper

74

Mohamed Seck
Defender

8

Neil El Aynaoui
Midfielder

46′

92

Stephan El Shaarawy
Attacker

72′

24

Jan Ziolkowski
Defender

17

Manu Koné
Midfielder

72′

78

Robinio Vaz
Attacker

84′

BySusy Campanale

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