Serie A: on the pitch at the Ettore Giardiniero Stadium - Via del Mare, Lecce-Fiorentina 1-1
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LECCE-Fiorentina 1-0! In the 17th minute Oudin scored
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Shot with the left foot, Terracciano doesn't move: goal for the home team!
Belotti, the latest arrival at Viola, starts from the bench and could take over during the match.
Nico Gonzalez out, not at his best.
Behind Nzola there will therefore be Beltran, Bonaventura and the recovered Sottil.
Italiano must also give up Ikoné, disqualified, and Arthur, unavailable due to fatigue.
Milenkovic is still out: Martinez Quarta and Ranieri will man the defense with Biraghi and Faraoni on the sides.
D'Aversa has to do without Ramadani, who is disqualified, but can count on the return of Banda, deployed from the first minute.
Together with him, Kristovic and Almqvist make up the offensive trident.
Eve.
Without Arthur but with an extra Belotti.
This is how Fiorentina will present themselves tomorrow evening on the Lecce pitch for the 23rd matchday of the championship.
The Brazilian midfielder, who has already been struggling with knee problems for some time, will miss the trip to Puglia due to muscle strain while the attacker who arrived on loan from Roma, after the first training session this morning at Viola Park, is among the squad and is not excluded who, with the number 20 shirt on his shoulders, can already be used during the match in progress.
While waiting, Vincenzo Italiano welcomed him through the club's channels.
"I am convinced that Andrea will give us a big hand, he has qualities and characteristics that will help us, but the positive thing is the enthusiasm he has shown for being here with us. You can see that he is a serious professional, used to working, I am satisfied of his arrival."
At the beginning of 2024, Fiorentina has not yet won a match beyond qualifying for the Italian Cup semi-finals achieved against Bologna on penalties.
For the rest he picked up a point resulting from the 2-2 home draw with Udinese and suffered three defeats, in the Super Cup semi-final against Napoli and in the championship in Reggio Emilia against Sassuolo and last Sunday against Inter at the Franchi.
Results that made the Viola slip to 6th place, despite having a game less.
"We have to try to move the rankings and start racing again too. In this second round, results count and we always perform at our best."
Starting tomorrow at the home of a Lecce hungry for points.
"We have worked well in recent days trying to prepare in the best possible way for this very complicated match. We will try to follow up on the excellent performance against Inter even if we lost - declared the Viola coach - We were not good in the circumstance to exploit the opportunities well, including the penalty, but I liked the boys. We have to improve up front when we create opportunities and in any case start again from that test. In the second round every match becomes important, if you have objectives, if you want to stay in the areas at the top of the rankings you have to be consistent in your performance and try to make as few mistakes as possible."
Compared to the last match, Biraghi is back available but in addition to Arthur, the injured Christensen, Castrovilli, Dodo and Kouamé involved in the Africa Cup of Nations will be missing.
On the transfer front, Yerry Mina has moved to Cagliari on a permanent basis.
THE OFFICIAL LINEUPS
LECCE (4-3-3): Falcone - Gendrey, Baschirotto, Pongracic, Gallo - Kaba, Blin, Oudin - Almqvist, Kristovic, Banda.
Coach: D'Aversa.
FIORENTINA (4-2-3-1): Terracciano - Faraoni, Martinez Quarta, Ranieri, Biraghi - Maxime Lopez, Duncan - Sottil, Beltran, Bonaventura - Nzola.
Coach: Italian.
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