Lecce and Cagliari are going to face off on Saturday the 6th of January at 6:00 pm in the 19th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Lecce at the Stadio Comunale Via del Mare. The encounter will be officiated by Davide Massa.
Lecce occupies the 13th place in the standings with 20 points. It comes from a 1-0 loss against Atalanta in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 4 times, draw 8 times, and lost 6 times.
Cagliari sits in the 18th position in the standings with 14 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Empoli in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 3 times, draw 5 times, and lost 10 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Lecce
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (18 times).
Roberto D’Aversa is expected to play against Cagliari with the following players: Wladimiro Falcone, Antonino Gallo, Marin Pongracic, Federico Baschirotto, Valentin Gendrey, J. Gonzàlez, Ylber Ramadani, Mohamed Kaba, Gabriel Strefezza, Rémi Oudin and Nikola Krstović.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Lecce would be 25.82.
Roberto D’Aversa will probably not be able to employ Pontus Almqvist because of injury.
Kastriot Dermaku, Ahmed Touba, Hamza Rafia, Lameck Banda and Nicola Sansone will definitely miss the match.
Cagliari
Cagliari has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-3-1-2 and 3-5-2 (5 times or 27.78% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (5 times), 3-5-2 (5 times), 4-4-1-1 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once), 4-3-2-1 (once), 4-4-2 (once), 3-4-2-1 (once), 4-1-3-2 (once), 4-2-3-1 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Claudio Ranieri is expected to play against Lecce with the following players: Simone Scuffet, Paulo Azzi, Edoardo Goldaniga, Alberto Dossena, Gabriele Zappa, Alessandro Deiola, Antoine Makoumbou, Matteo Prati, Nicolas Viola, Gaetano Oristanio and Leonardo Pavoletti.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Cagliari would be 28.09.
Claudio Ranieri will probably not be able to employ Tommaso Augello because of injury.
Velizar-Iliya Iliev, Nahitan Nández, Marko Rog, Gianluca Lapadula and Zito Luvumbo will definitely miss the match.
