Hellas Verona vs Lecce - prediction, team news, lineups

Defeat could corroborate relegation for Hellas Verona this weekend, truthful the Gialloblu volition beryllium nether utmost unit to nutrient erstwhile they big Lecce connected Saturday evening.

The 2 Serie A strugglers are each acceptable for a high-stakes clash astatine Stadio Bentegodi, wherever the visitors besides request points to assistance their combat for top-flight survival.

Match preview

After an eight-year enactment successful Serie A, Verona are skirting the trapdoor to Italy's 2nd tier, and with 5 rounds remaining they prevarication 10 points adrift of safety.

Surely doomed to the drop, Hellas person mislaid each of their past 5 fixtures - scoring conscionable 1 extremity successful the process - and a sixth consecutive decision mightiness nonstop them down.

The Gialloblu would beryllium consigned to Serie B arsenic soon arsenic this weekend, should they suffer to Lecce portion Cremonese prime up points against Napoli.

Staring astatine the imaginable of demotion being confirmed successful beforehand of their ain fans, Paolo Sammarco's broadside were beaten 1-0 by AC Milan past clip out, and they volition stay successful Verona this weekend.

It has been a bleak run for supporters to endure astatine the Bentegodi, arsenic their squad person produced conscionable 1 triumph from 16 location games truthful far, with Sammarco's mid-term assignment making small impact.

Now, a repetition of November's 0-0 gully down successful Lecce mightiness support Hellas afloat for astatine slightest different week, but triumph is each but essential.

Having dangled supra the driblet portion for astir of the season, Lecce present inhabit 18th spot successful the table, truthful clip is moving retired to stave disconnected relegation.

Losing signifier astatine conscionable the incorrect time, the Salentini person picked up 1 constituent from their past 5 fixtures, portion lone scoring 2 goals.

Having collected 9 points from the erstwhile 5 - uncovering the nett 7 times during that blistery streak - it has been rather a downturn for Eusebio Di Francesco's side.

Though they eked retired a 1-1 gully with Fiorentina connected Monday, nary squad has scored less goals crossed Europe's apical 5 leagues, and specified an acute deficiency of firepower could outgo them dearly.

With the bottommost 2 surely doomed, it looks apt that Lecce volition combat Cremonese to debar finishing third-last successful the Serie A standings, and neither broadside has a straightforward run-in.

Before visiting Verona and Pisa for back-to-back distant games that could specify their campaign, the Giallorossi person taken nary points from their past 4 roadworthy trips, truthful Di Francesco volition request a timely extremity to that drought.

Hellas Verona Serie A form:

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Lecce Serie A form:

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Team News

Verona's apical scorer Gift Orban has failed to find the nett since January, and helium whitethorn suffer his spot pursuing a nationalist altercation with a Hellas protagonist past week.

Therefore, Sammarco volition anticipation Kieron Bowie and Amin Sarr person afloat recovered from an unwellness that kept them retired of the decision to Milan; chap striker Daniel Mosquera is acceptable to acquisition genu surgery.

The hosts are besides missing semipermanent absentee Suat Serdar, portion wing-back Daniel Oyegoke and midfielder Tomas Suslov are ruled retired by ankle problems.

Lecce volition beryllium without their antiaircraft stone connected Saturday evening, arsenic Tiago Gabriel - who has won the astir duels successful Serie A this play - indispensable service a suspension.

Medon Berisha, Kialonda Gaspar and Sadik Fofana are each sidelined by injury, portion wide men Lameck Banda and Riccardo Sottil some look fittingness tests.

In amended quality for Di Francesco, Milan loanee Francesco Camarda has returned from a agelong layoff; albeit, helium whitethorn not yet beryllium acceptable to situation misfiring strikers Nikola Stulic and Walid Cheddira for enactment up front.

Hellas Verona imaginable starting lineup:

Montipo; Edmundsson, Nelsson, Valentini; Belghali, Akpa Akpro, Gagliardini, Bernede, Bradaric; Harroui; Bowie

Lecce imaginable starting lineup:

Falcone; Veiga, Siebert, Jean, Gallo; Ngom, Ramadani, Coulibaly; Pierotti, Stulic, Banda

We say: Hellas Verona 0-1 Lecce 

Both sides are leaking goals and looking desperate, truthful prime volition beryllium astatine a premium successful Serie A's Saturday nighttime showdown.

One infinitesimal of magic - oregon madness - mightiness determine the contest, and a uncommon distant triumph for lowly Lecce could nonstop Verona down. 

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