Fiorentina vs Lecce Live Stream, Predictions

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Fiorentina

WWWWWW ✅

Fiorentina will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 1-4 Conference League victory vs Sivasspor.

For Fiorentina, the scorers were Arthur Cabral (44'), Nikola Milenković (62') and Gaetano Castrovilli (89'). Erdoğan Yeşilyurt (35') and Dimitris Goutas (78' Own goal) scored for Sivasspor.

Their latest results show that not much more can be done by the Fiorentina rearguard. Fiorentina have given the opposition little, resulting in the number of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their past six clashes standing at 4.

Pre-game facts show that Fiorentina:

• have not been beaten in the league by Lecce in their last 2 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Lecce

WDWLLL 📉

Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Torino in Serie A action, Lecce and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Lecce managed 55% possession and 13 shots on goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Torino had 4 shots on goal with 2 on target. Wilfried Singo (20') and Antonio Sanabria (23') scored for Torino.

The numbers tell their own story, and Lecce have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 7 goals in all. Defensively, Lecce seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. We will find out if that trend will be sustained here.

Going into this contest, Lecce have not lost to Fiorentina in away games against them for the last 4 matches in the league. A very good record, indeed.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 23/01/2011, there has been little to separate the clubs with Fiorentina winning 2 of those games, Lecce 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

11 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 6 of them for La Viola and 5 netted by Giallorossi. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The last league game between these clubs was Serie A match day 10 on 17/10/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Lecce 1-1 Fiorentina.

That day, Lecce managed 41% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Assan Ceesay (43').

On the other side, Fiorentina got 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. Christian Kouamé (48') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Luca Massimi.

🗞️ Team News: Fiorentina

Riccardo Sottil (Unknown Injury), Aleksa Terzić (Tear in the abductor muscle) and Alessandro Bianco (Nose Injury) are unavailable for Fiorentina boss Vincenzo Italiano.

It’s our opinion that La Viola could make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation for this one, handing starts to Pietro Terracciano, Dodo, Igor, Nikola Milenkovic, Cristiano Biraghi, Rolando Mandragora, Sofyan Amrabat, Nicolas Gonzalez, Antonin Barak, Riccardo Saponara and Christian Kouame.

📋 Team News: Lecce

Lecce manager Marco Baroni has to choose a team with limited availability. Kastriot Dermaku (Pubalgia) and Marin Pongracic (Ankle Surgery) are those who can’t be considered.

We’re of the thinking that Giallorossi will likely begin the game with a 4-3-3 lineup using Wladimiro Falcone, Valentin Gendrey, Federico Baschirotto, Samuel Umtiti, Antonino Gallo, Alexis Blin, Morten Hjulmand, Joan Gonzalez, Gabriel Strefezza, Lorenzo Colombo and F. Di Francesco.

⚡ Prediction

It looks to us that Fiorentina look set to be able to score a couple when they line up against Lecce, who could well find it tough to find the back of the net.

We can therefore see a 2-0 win for Fiorentina at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 02:46 15/03/2023