Lecce-Verona 0-1 The chronicle
Verona is alive and reopens its salvation race. To sign the blitz at Via del Mare, for the first away success of the season, is Ngonge, who took over in the second half, with a left of rare precision. Verona passes 1-0, and they are three very heavy points with four days to go. At the moment Veneto at an altitude of 30, at + 3 on Spezia, fourth last. A victory wanted, sought and obtained with merit by Zaffaroni's men, who also have to their credit a cross of Djuric: the venenti have interpreted with order and rhythm the watershed race of their season. On the other hand, Lecce collects yet another disappointment and wastes the match-point he had available in an unexpected way. And now the ranking for the Salento, still at +4 on Spezia, returns to scary. On the Lecce front, the coach Baroni finds Strefezza after the round of disqualification, deployed in the offensive trident together with Cessay and Di Francesco; Oudin moved back to midfield, where Blin returned. At home Verona Zaffaroni on Dawidowicz in the back department, in attack Djuric starts: behind him, with Verdi, there is Duda on the trequarti. Ready to go and Verona is one step away from scoring in the 2nd minute. Lazovic drinks Gendrey, soft cross in the middle of the area, Djuric comes off undisturbed and strikes with a header: the ball hits the crossbar and returns to the field. Again Djuric protagonist in the 10th minute: caught by the usual Lazovic comes off the head, but Falcone overcomes and deflects into the corner. It is Verona who make the race, with Lecce relying on rapid restarts. On one of these (27 ') Cessay flies from midfield and passes Hien with a tunnel: the defender does not find better than to lay it out, the referee Massa awards the free-kick, but does not extract the yellow. The game flows away in a fragmented manner, with continuous interruptions of play due to repeated interventions by the referee. There is no recovery and we go to rest with the result nailed on 0-0: better Verona who touched and sought more insistently the way to the net, for Lecce only sporadic appearances in the Venetian area. We start again with the same sides. The hosts seem to return with a different spirit, thanks also to the rumps on the band of Di Francesco, who keep the Verona rearguard in continuous apprehension: in one of these Magnani and forced to resort to the foul to stop it, inevitable yellow. The visitors tried with Abildgaard's header from a corner, but Falcone was alert to lift over the crossbar (59'). The first changes are of the Veronese brand with Nonge who detects a switched off Verdi (65 '), followed by Sulemana and Depaoli for Duda and Pharaohs ('71). And just one of the new Gialloblù unlocks it. The 71st minute runs and Ngonge starts from the center-right, he concentrates with a sudden acceleration, Hjulmand lightens in the contrast, and unloads a left of rare precision to the corner: Falcone does not get there and Verona ahead. Baroni ran for cover and threw into the fray band and Gonzalez for Di Francesco and Blin (72 '). The pressure of the hosts. It is quite confusing and disorderly, and this plays into the orderly Venetian defense. Baroni also plays the Colombo card for everything in place of Oudin (83 '), for a Lecce with total front-wheel drive. Banda tries from the edge of the area (85'), Montipò stretches and puts in a corner. The five minutes of recovery do not change the course of events. Verona passes deservedly and sees the light again, for Lecce a badly digested stop and that complicates the salvation race.
