Genoa and Lecce will play on Sunday the 28th of January at 12:30 pm in the 22nd week of the Serie A. The match will take place in Genova at the Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris. The appointed referee is Luca Pairetto.
Genoa sits in the 11th place in the standings with 25 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Salernitana in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 6 times, draw 7 times, and lost 8 times.
Lecce is in the 14th position in the table with 21 points. It comes from a 0-3 loss against Juventus in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 4 times, draw 9 times, and lost 8 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Genoa
Genoa has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up during the season (13 times or 61.90%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (13 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 4-3-2-1 (2 times), 3-4-2-1 (once) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Alberto Gilardino is expected to play against Lecce with the following players: Josep Martínez, Alessandro Vogliacco, Koni De Winter, Mattia Bani, Johan Vásquez, Morten Thorsby, Ruslan Malinovskyi, Kevin Strootman, Djed Spence, Mateo Retegui and Albert Guðmundsson.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the average age of Genoa would be 27.27.
Alberto Gilardino will probably not be able to employ Stefano Sabelli because of injury.
Ridgeciano Haps, Aarón Martín and Junior Messias will definitely miss the match.
Alberto Gilardino will not be able to have the presence of Morten Frendrup and Milan Badelj who are both suspended.
Lecce
Lecce has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (20 times or 95.24%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (20 times) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Roberto D’Aversa is expected to play against Genoa with the following players: Wladimiro Falcone, Antonino Gallo, Marin Pongracic, Federico Baschirotto, Valentin Gendrey, Ylber Ramadani, Mohamed Kaba, J. Gonzàlez, Rémi Oudin, Pontus Almqvist and Nikola Krstović.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the average age of Lecce would be 25.64.
Roberto D’Aversa will probably not be able to employ Ahmed Touba, Hamza Rafia and Lameck Banda because of injury.
Kastriot Dermaku will definitely miss the match.