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Lecce

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Lecce will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-0 Serie A defeat in their last game at the hands of Inter Milan.

In that game, Lecce had 39% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For their opponents, Inter Milan had 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Matteo Darmian (5') and Hakan Çalhanoğlu (69') scored for Inter Milan.

It has been seldom in recent games where Lecce have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Lecce have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 11 goals during that time.

Leading up to this clash, Lecce:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Cagliari in their previous 5 games.
• have left without a victory over Cagliari in their previous 4 league games.
• have not won at home in their last 4 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Cagliari

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Last time out, Cagliari drew 1-1 in the Serie A tie with Como.

In that game, Cagliari had 47% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Cagliari was Roberto Piccoli (44'). Como got 14 shots on goal with 4 on target. Patrick Cutrone (53') scored for Como.

Davide Nicola's Cagliari have turned their attacks into goals 9 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during those same clashes adds up to 10.

Leading up to this clash, Cagliari:

• have left without a victory over Lecce when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
• haven't been defeated by Lecce when they've played them away from home in the last 4 league games. A very good run of results for them.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 02/10/2011, there has been little between the sides with Lecce winning 1 of those games, Cagliari 1 and 4 being drawn in normal time.

A sum of 13 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 6 of them for Giallorossi and 7 being from Casteddu / Rossoblu. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Serie A match day 35 on 05/05/2024 when it ended Cagliari 1-1 Lecce.

That day, Cagliari managed 34% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Yerry Mina (26').

Lecce had 16 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Nikola Krstović (84') scored.

The match was refereed by Matteo Marcenaro.

📋 Team News: Lecce

Joan González (heart problems), Jeppe Corfitzen (Cruciate ligament tear) and Mohamed Kaba (Cruciate ligament injury) will be missing for Lecce boss Luca Gotti.

It’s our opinion that Giallorossi may well go for a 4-2-3-1 system in the match featuring Wladimiro Falcone, Frederic Guilbert, Kialonda Gaspar, Federico Baschirotto, Antonino Gallo, Ylber Ramadani, Balthazar Pierret, Patrick Dorgu, Hamza Rafia, Lameck Banda and Nikola Krstovic.

ℹ️ Team News: Cagliari

We reckon that Casteddu / Rossoblu appear most likely to utilise a 3-5-2 formation, settling for Simone Scuffet, Gabriele Zappa, Yerry Mina, Sebastiano Luperto, Nadir Zortea, Alessandro Deiola, Matteo Prati, Razvan Marin, Tommaso Augello, Zito Luvumbo and Roberto Piccoli.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Cagliari will have their work cut out to get anything against this Lecce side who we think might well end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

Therefore, we predict a very competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for Lecce at the end of the 90 minutes.

Should be a close one.

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Renata Leite, 16:05 31/08/2024