Milan win 2-0 at Udinese and climb to 18 points: fourth place is theirs

Eight matches, zero defeats. After the 2-0 win in Udine, Milan have 18 points and fourth place, with 5 wins and 3 draws. At the other end is an Udinese side with just one win, sitting 17th on 4 points.

The result tells a story the pre-match numbers pointed to fairly clearly.

Two teams heading in opposite directions

Look at the form going into the match, most recent first. Udinese arrived on 5 defeats in 5 games: 0-3 at home to Lecce, 1-2 at Torino, 0-1 against Cagliari, 3-5 in Milan against Inter, 1-2 against Lazio. The tally: 5 goals scored and 13 conceded. A defence shipping more than 2 goals a game won't hold up against anyone, let alone a confident Milan.

Milan were in the opposite situation. Over their last 5 they had 2 wins and 3 draws: 3-2 against Atalanta, 1-1 at Sassuolo, 3-0 against Lecce, 2-2 in Rome against Lazio, 1-1 against Juventus. In all, 10 goals scored and 6 conceded. Not always clean, but never beaten.

The comparison is simple. On one side, a team that keeps conceding; on the other, one that scores and doesn't lose. The 2-0 final score fits that picture.

What the table says

After the final whistle, the standings speak plainly. Milan have 16 goals scored and 7 conceded in 8 matches. Udinese have 9 scored and 18 conceded: their goal difference is heavily negative, and this match did nothing to improve it. Udinese's defeats rise to 6 out of 8.

For the Rossoneri, the figure that matters is consistency: 18 points, with an unbeaten run covering all 8 matches played.

The head-to-head was no alibi for Udinese

In the last 4 meetings, Milan have won 3 times and Udinese once. Milan's wins were 1-0 in October 2024, 4-0 in Udine in April 2025 and 3-0, again in Udine, in September 2025. Udinese's only slap in the face came on 11 April 2026: a 3-0 win in Milan. Those 4 games produced 11 goals in total.

So there was a recent result that could have given Udinese some courage. But the two teams' current form weighed more than memory: April's 3-0 had no sequel.

The names to watch

Milan's top scorer is Adrien Rabiot, with 4 goals and 3 assists. Behind him, Diego Moreira has 3 goals and 1 assist. For Udinese, the attacking reference point is Jurgen Ekkelenkamp, with 3 goals and 1 assist: of the team's 9 total goals, a third carry his signature.

The takeaway: Udinese's attack has only one truly productive outlet, while Milan spread their goals across several names. It's a difference that shows in the table too.

What to watch in the coming days

If you follow Milan, the real test will be backing up those 18 points against opponents who aren't in the kind of crisis Udinese are in right now. With 0 defeats in 8 matches, any slip would become a story. For Udinese, the urgency is to stop the rot: 6 defeats in 8 matches. There's only one question: can they end the losing run and leave 17th place behind?