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18′ – Kvaratskhelia lights up and goes past Blin and wins a free kick.
16′ – Lobotka slips between a couple of opposing shirts and is fouled by Blin. Free kick from a good position for Napoli.
12′ – Napoli regain the ball forward with Cajuste and Kvara, the Georgian serves Politano at the limit who finishes with the left foot but fails to find the target.
11′ – KVARATSKHELIA! Great combination between Lobotka and Di Lorenzo which opens up a prairie. The captain then sets the table for Kvara who perhaps takes one touch too many and has his shot blocked.
9′ – POLE! Napoli is saved! Kristovic receives between the lines and widens for Dorgu forgotten in the area. Lecce’s number 13 crosses low with his left foot and hits the post.
8′ – Break by Olivera on the left, then the Uruguayan opens for Cajuste but the tip is too short and Lecce wins the ball back.
5′ – Napoli’s free-kick scheme, Kvaratskhelia looks for a teammate at the far post but clears Lecce well. On the restart Dorgu tries to take flight but Olivera does well to contain him at speed.
3′ – Napoli presses on the accelerator: Cajuste is found in the area and unloads for Politano’s shot, which is deflected for a corner.
2′ – Di Lorenzo crosses from the right and finds Olivera in the area who heads badly.
1′ – Ready go. Politano recovers the ball under high pressure, soft cross for Kvaratskhelia who tries the overhead kick but doesn’t impact the ball.
6.00pm – GAMES! The match begins!
5.56pm – The teams enter the pitch.
5.42pm – The Lecce midfielder Ylber Ramadani spoke to DAZN in the pre-match of the match against Napoli, valid for the 38th matchday of Serie A.
His statements: “Hard championship, we started well and then we didn’t get the results we wanted. In the end we achieved our objective and we want to finish on the best”.
5.40pm – The Napoli defender Juan Jesus spoke to DAZN in the pre-match of the match against Lecce, valid for the 38th matchday of Serie A.
His statements: “Our work must be honoured, we are not here on holiday. To honor what was our dream as children and to honor the scudetto: we are sorry that it is going away, but there is still next year and we will do our best everything to bring him back to Naples”.
4.57pm – The lineups for Napoli-Lecce, the last day of Serie A, are official. Calzona confirms his choices from the day before, Simeone in attack replaces Osimhen who starts from the bench. In defense there is still space from the 1st minute for Ostigard, who plays in place of Rrahmani on the centre-right. The Florence trio confirmed in midfield: Lobotka in the control room with Anguissa and Cajuste on the sides.
NAPLES (4-3-3): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Ostigard, Juan Jesus, Olivera; Anguissa, Lobotka, Cajuste; Politano, Simeone, Kvaratskhelia. Coach: Francesco Calzona
Available: Contini, Gollini, Natan, Traore, Osimhen, Rrhamani, Ngonge, Lindstrom, Mazzocchi, D’avino, Raspadori
LECCE (4-2-3-1): Falcone; Gendrey, Pongracic, Baschirotto, Gallo; Ramadani, Berisha; Almqvist, Blin, Dorgu; Krstovic. Coach: Luca Gotti
Available: Brancolini, Samooja, Borbei, Radia, Oudin, Venuti, Gonzalez, Esposito, Burnete, Pierotti, Touba, Samek, Piccoli
The most awaited men. Since February, no one in Serie A has scored more than Victor Osimhen: eight goals in eleven appearances for the Nigerian. Nikola Krstovic he is the fifth player in the history of Lecce for goals scored in his debut season with the Giallorossi shirt (seven, behind only Lucarelli, Vugrinec, Chevanton and Lapadula).
Statistics. Napoli have won five of their last seven league matches against Lecce, scoring an average of 2.7 goals per game. Furthermore, the Azzurri have always scored in the twelve matches at home against the Salento team. The Neapolitans have conceded at least one goal in their last 16 Serie A matches, only once have they done worse: in the 1997/98 season when they didn’t find a clean sheet for 17 consecutive matches. Negative record that they risk equaling today. Lecce have remained unbeaten in their last two away games in Naples (one win and one draw): historically they have never avoided defeat for more than two away games against the Azzurri.
Lecce has already achieved salvation and in this last round mister Luca Gotti could give space to the second lines. In goal Falcone takes a risk on competition from Brancolini, in defense more Venuti than Gendrey while Touba threatens Pongracic for a goal from the 1st minute, Baschirotto and Gallo complete the department. In the four-man midfield, Oudin and Dorgu will act on the outside, while in the middle next to Ramadani there is Blin on pole over Berisha. The offensive tandem will be made up of Piccoli and one between Krstovic and the young Pierotti.
It is the closing day of the short experience of Francesco Calzona on the blue bench, but it is also the time to say goodbye to two historical pillars of the last period such as Osimhen and Zielinski, who however are injured. The Nigerian will start from the bench while the Pole is not in the squad, as are Mario Rui and Dendoncker. Rrahmani not at his best, so the defensive line in front of Meret needs to be redesigned: with Di Lorenzo and Olivera wide and Ostigard-Juan Jesus a central pair. In midfield there are few doubts, together with Anguissa and Lobotka there is Cajuste. In front Politano and Kvaratskhelia will act in support of Raspadori who is ahead in the run-off with Simeone.
The last day of the championship is the last call for Napoli to qualify for a European cup for the fifteenth consecutive year. The Azzurri can still aim for ninth place, which in the event of Fiorentina winning the Conference League would be good for the third most prestigious international competition. Francesco Calzona’s team will have to beat Lecce today at 6pm and will have to hope that Torino don’t win, at the same time, at the home of an Atalanta team fresh from the hangover from their Europa League triumph. There are therefore three necessary conditions.
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