Lecce vs Fiorentina: a Matchday 33 survival clash

Valuable points are on the line at the Stadio Via del Mare. Third-bottom Lecce must end a run of four consecutive defeats to try to escape the relegation zone and pull Fiorentina back into the fight. The Viola, meanwhile, are unbeaten in five matches and have won their last two, moving away from danger. Another victory would push them further toward safety.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

There have been 22 official matches between the two sides in Lecce: 8 wins for the Giallorossi (the most recent a 3-2 victory in the 2023/24 Serie A season), 8 draws (the most recent a 1-1 draw in the 2022/23 Serie A season) and 6 wins for the Viola (the most recent a 0-6 victory in the 2024/25 Serie A season).

DID YOU KNOW?

Lecce are the Serie A 2025/26 side with the fewest goals scored (21) over the last two seasons; curiously, however, the side with the worst attack has always avoided relegation at the end of the season: Lecce themselves in 2024/25 (27 goals after 38 games) and Empoli in 2023/24 (29 goals after 38 games). Looking across the top five European leagues, Lecce remains the team that has scored the fewest goals, at least two goals behind any other side. The five teams with 23 goals or fewer are Pisa, Verona, Parma, Auxerre (29 games played) and Lecce themselves.

Only Genoa (46.3%) have a lower percentage of duels won than Lecce (47.22%) in the 2025/26 Serie A season.

Lecce are coming off the back of four consecutive defeats: the only goal scored by the Salento side in these matches was Jamil Siebert’s in the third minute of the game against Napoli. The Giallorossi have therefore gone 357 minutes without scoring.

Lecce are the 2025/26 Serie A side who have conceded the most goals from opposing substitutes (11), alongside Pisa and Verona.

A clash between the two teams with the lowest percentage of successful crosses in Serie A 2025/26: Fiorentina (21.01%) and Lecce (21.23%). Fiorentina are, however, among the top four for crosses attempted, whilst Lecce are among the bottom six.

Looking at the last 10 league matchdays, only Napoli and Inter (23 each) have picked up more points than Fiorentina (18, the same as Juventus, Como, Atalanta and Bologna).

COACHES and PLAYERS

Eusebio Di Francesco and Paolo Vanoli face off for the third time: in their two previous meetings (both from last season), the Fiorentina manager secured one win and one draw.

No one has won more duels than Tiago Gabriel (201, level with Victor Nelsson) in the 2025/26 Serie A season.

Konan N’Dri (22, the same as Sarr) is the player who has come on as a substitute most often during a match in the 2025/26 Serie A season.

Robin Gosens scores against Lazio: his third goal of the season, the German had not scored since 7 January, precisely against the Biancocelesti in the first-leg fixture.

Wladimiro Falcone and David De Gea are two of the 6 players — all goalkeepers — to have played every minute in the 2025/26 Serie A season: 32 appearances out of 32 and 2,880 minutes on the pitch, excluding stoppage time, alongside Svilar, Caprile, Butez and Carnesecchi.

Only Albert Guðmundsson (4) has registered more assists than Jack Harrison for Fiorentina in the 2025/26 Serie A season. Since the Englishman arrived in Italy (his debut came on 24 January against Cagliari), only Dimarco (6), Da Cunha, Laurienté, Conceição and Zaniolo (4) have recorded more assists than him in Serie A.

No player in the 2025/26 Serie A season has recorded a greater negative difference between xG (14.98) and goals scored (8) than Moise Kean: -6.98.

DISCIPLINE 

Suspended: none 

Cautioned: Tiago Gabriel (Lecce); Pongracic, Kean (Fiorentina) 

REFEREE

MARESCA COLAROSSI – DEI GIUDICI) IV: PERRI, VAR: DOVERI, AVAR: CAMPLONE

UPCOMING MATCHES

Verona-Lecce (Saturday April 25th, 20.45 CEST)

Fiorentina-Sassuolo (Sunday April 26th, 12.30 CEST)

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