Lecce are hosting Bologna at 18:00 CET where both are desperate for three points for their own reasons

The game will take place at Via del Mare. The hosts are looking to build on their important win against Parma last week which put them in a better position in the table after losses against Cagliari and Inter.

Bologna are flying, only three losses all season (their last loss was on the 30th December), currently on 37 points even with a game in hand against AC Milan at the end of February. They will aim to build their momentum following their win against Como and will continue to push for that final Champions League spot.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Bologna are unbeaten in their last eight Serie A matches against Lecce (W6 D2); against current Serie A sides, the Rossoblù have a longer unbeaten streak only against Parma (10).

Lecce have won two of their 15 home matches against Bologna in Serie A (D8 L5); among sides they have faced at least 15 times at home in the competition, only against Milan and Roma (6%) do they have a lower winning rate than against Bologna (13%).

DID YOU KNOW?

Lecce have failed to score in two consecutive home games for the first time this season, after scoring in their previous five home games – in a single Serie A season, the Giallorossi have already failed to score in at least three consecutive home games on five occasions, most recently between February and April 2024.

Bologna are both the team with the most high turnovers (165), and the most pressed sequences (284) in Serie A this season – indeed the Rossoblù have a 9.1 PPDA value (ratio between the opposition passes allowed outside of the team`s own defensive third and the defensive actions outside of their own defensive third), the lowest in Serie A this term.

PLAYERS

Nikola Krstovic has been involved in five goals in his last four league games (3 goals, 2 assists), as many as in his previous 22 appearances in the competition (4 goals, 1 assist); the Lecce striker has netted seven goals in two different Serie A campaigns with the Giallorossi and, prior to him, the last player to achieve this with the Apulians was David Di Michele, between 2010-11 and 2011-12.

Davide Calabria could play his first Serie A match with a team other than Milan; since his debut in the competition in 2014-15, he has played 210 games, only eight defenders have more in the same period with a single team. He has already found the net in Serie A against Lecce, in January 2023, his last away goal in the competition.

Giovanni Fabbian, who found the net in the last matchday, has scored two goals in the 2024-25 Serie A season; among the players with at least two goals in both this and in the last campaign, only Patrick Dorgu (26/10/2004 who has just left Lecce) and Kenan Yildiz (04/05/2005) are younger than the Rossoblù midfielder (14/01/2003).

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: none

Cautioned: Rafia (Lecce); Castro (Bologna)

REFEREE

FOURNEAU (CECCONI – BERCIGLI) IV: RUTELLA, VAR: FABBRI, AVAR: MERAVIGLIA

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A

Monza-Lecce (Sunday 16 February, 15:00 CET)

Bologna-Torino (Friday 14 February, 20:45 CET)

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