Lecce and Genoa will face on Friday the 22nd of September at 8:45 pm in the 5th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be played in Lecce at the Stadio Comunale Via del Mare. The chosen referee is Antonio Rapuano.

Lecce sits in the 4th place in the table with 8 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Monza in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won twice and drawn twice.​​

Genoa sits in the 13th place in the standings with 4 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Napoli in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won once, drawn once, and lost twice.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Lecce​

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (4 times).

Roberto D’Aversa is expected to play against Genoa with the following players: Wladimiro Falcone, Antonino Gallo, Marin Pongracic, Valentin Gendrey, Alexis Blin, Ylber Ramadani, Mohamed Kaba, Hamza Rafia, Gabriel Strefezza, Pontus Almqvist and Nikola Krstovic.

In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Lecce would be 24.82.

Kastriot Dermaku and Lameck Banda will definitely miss the match.

Roberto D’Aversa will not be able to have the presence of Federico Baschirotto who is suspended​.

Genoa​

Genoa has mostly adopted the 4-3-2-1 line-up most used during the season (2 times or 50.00%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-2-1 (2 times), 4-4-2 (once) and 3-5-2 (once).

Alberto Gilardino is expected to play against Lecce with the following players: Josep Martínez, Johan Vásquez, Mattia Bani, Radu Drăguşin, Koni De Winter, Morten Frendrup, Milan Badelj, Kevin Strootman, Ruslan Malinovskyi, Albert Guðmundsson and Mateo Retegui.

Presuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Genoa would be 26.45.

Alessandro Vogliacco and Junior Messias will definitely miss the match.