# Manchester United v Roma: nine games without a win, and now the only unbeaten side left in Serie A comes to Old Trafford *Old Trafford, Tuesday 3 November, 21:00 CET, Champions League matchday 4. United have three points from three games and are 20th of 36; Roma have four and are 15th. Carrick says he expects to be in charge.* Matches · Published 07:22 CET, 2 Nov 2026 · Match News (https://matchnews.news/matches/manchester-united-v-roma-carrick-nine-without-a-win-meets-serie-as-only-unbeaten-side/) By Matches desk · Reviewed by Fredrik Jurek Manchester United v Roma, 21:00 CET, 3 Nov 2026 (2026-11-03T20:00:00.000Z). Live odds → https://bettingbeast.com/odds/?match=2026-11-03%2C53%2C240&utm_source=matchnews&utm_medium=referral Odds at BettingBeast, correct at 06:23 CET, 2 Nov 2026. Prices move. Percentages are the chance the price implies, before the bookmaker's margin. 18+ Home 2.38, Draw 4.08, Away 2.85. Manchester United play Roma at Old Trafford on Tuesday 3 November at 21:00 CET, in the fourth round of the Champions League's league phase. For United it is the first game since the 2-0 defeat at Chelsea on Saturday that stretched their winless run to nine matches in all competitions, the club's longest since 1984, according to Sky Sports. For Roma it is a trip to one of Europe's biggest grounds while sitting third in Serie A as the division's only unbeaten team. ## Why it matters The league phase is a single table of 36 clubs in which each team plays eight different opponents. The top eight go straight to the last 16; places nine to 24 go into a play-off round in February; the bottom 12 are out. After three rounds United have three points, one win and two defeats, and sit 20th on goal difference, level on points with eleven other clubs. Roma have four points, a win, a draw and a defeat, and are 15th. A home win would lift United into the middle of the table with four games left; a defeat would leave them in the bottom third with trips still to come. United's wider week explains why Tuesday carries more weight than a fourth group game usually does. After Saturday's defeat, head coach Michael Carrick said he expects to remain in charge for the Roma game, Sky Sports reported on Sunday. The same report quoted Gary Neville, the former United defender who now works for Sky Sports, saying: "It feels like the club is stuck in a rut." United are 17th in the Premier League with seven points from nine games, level on points with Crystal Palace in 18th and above them only on goal difference, and Sky Sports says the run puts them at risk of dropping into the bottom three before the international break. Roma arrive from the other direction. They beat Udinese 5-2 away on Saturday, their seventh league win in ten games alongside three draws, and have 24 points, four behind the leaders Lazio and one behind Inter. No other team in Serie A has gone ten rounds without losing. ## The week around it United's next three games after Tuesday are Aston Villa at home in the league on Sunday 8 November at 17:30 CET, then, after the international break, Liverpool away on 22 November and Sporting away in the Champions League on 25 November, per Sky Sports' list of upcoming fixtures. Roma go to Fiorentina on Sunday 8 November at 20:45 CET, according to the fixture feed used on this site. ## Team news Lisandro Martínez was sent off at Chelsea after two yellow cards, the second for raising an arm to Wesley Fofana's face, as we reported on Sunday. The Premier League's availability notes list him as suspended until 22 November for league matches. We found no statement from the club on Monday morning about his availability for Tuesday, which falls under UEFA's rules rather than the league's. The same notes list four United players as injured with no return date: Patrick Dorgu (hamstring), Luke Shaw (unspecified), Manuel Ugarte (knee) and Benjamin Sesko (shin). Marcus Rashford (hip) and Amad Diallo (calf) are both marked as having a 75% chance of playing; the note on Amad was added on Saturday, the day of the Chelsea game, in which he started and twice forced saves from Mike Penders. Senne Lammens was United's goalkeeper at Chelsea and Bruno Fernandes, dropped the week before, was back in the team. For Roma, no team news from an allowed source was available as of 07:30 CET on Monday. The official line-ups are due at 19:45 CET on Tuesday, 75 minutes before kick-off. ## How to read the market The striking thing about this price is how little it has moved. On Friday afternoon at 13:54 CET, before the weekend, BettingBeast had United at 2.43 to win, Roma at 2.75 and the draw at 4.15. At 06:23 CET on Monday, after United's defeat at Chelsea and Roma's five goals at Udinese, the prices were 2.38, 2.85 and 4.08. In implied chance, which you get by dividing 1 by the price, United went from about 41% to about 42%, and Roma from about 36% to about 35%. That is a move of a single percentage point in each direction, across a weekend that went one way for each club. The market, in other words, still treats this as close to even, with the home side slightly preferred, and did not read Saturday as new information about United. The goals line has flickered between 2.5 and 3.5 all weekend, which is a sign the market is unsure how open the game is. At 06:23 CET it stood at 3.5, with over at 2.34 and under at 1.70. The handicap, which gives one team a head start in goals, has sat at level for most of the weekend, meaning neither side is expected to win by a margin. Prices on the match card update when the feed does. ## What to watch The first goal. Sky Sports' report of Neville's comments carried his line that United "fall to pieces" as soon as they go behind, and Saturday followed that pattern: level at half-time, then two goals in 14 minutes after the break. Roma scored five at Udinese on Saturday but also conceded two. If United score first, Old Trafford will carry them for a while; if Roma do, the question is whether a team on a nine-game winless run can respond. Watch, too, who partners whom at centre-back without Martínez if he is not available, and whether Rashford and Amad are fit enough to start. A draw would not be a disaster for either side in this format, and the price says a draw is a 25% chance, but it would leave United still searching for a win after ten games. ## Sources 1. Man Utd: Gary Neville says club are in a rut and is unimpressed with Lisandro Martinez amid tough run of games for Michael Carrick's side (Sky Sports) https://www.skysports.com/football/news/13606708/manchester-united-gary-neville-says-club-are-in-a-rut-and-is-unimpressed-with-lisandro-martinez-amid-tough-run-of-games-for-michael-carricks-side - Read 06:55 CET, 2 Nov 2026 2. Football scores and fixtures, Saturday 31 October 2026 (Sky Sports) https://www.skysports.com/football-scores-fixtures/2026-10-31 - Read 07:05 CET, 2 Nov 2026 3. Champions League and Serie A standings, fixtures and Premier League availability notes (licensed feed, generated 2026-11-02T05:23Z, in data/latest.json) (football-data.org via Match News) https://www.football-data.org/ - Read 06:40 CET, 2 Nov 2026 4. BettingBeast football prices, captured by this site's odds job (data/odds-series.json and data/odds-latest.json) (BettingBeast via Match News) https://matchnews.news/data/odds-series.json - Read 07:25 CET, 2 Nov 2026 --- 18+. Gambling involves risk and can be addictive. Please gamble responsibly. Odds links go to BettingBeast. Match News is a football news site published by Checkraise Ltd. Every odds link on this site goes to BettingBeast. Articles are written with the help of an AI system and checked against the sources they cite; the responsible editor is named on every article.