Salernitana and Lecce will face off on Saturday the 16th of March at 6:00 pm in the 29th week of the Serie A. The match is going to take place in Salerno at the Stadio Arechi. The referee will be Fabio Maresca.
Salernitana is in the 20th position in the table with 14 points. It comes from a 4-2 loss against Cagliari in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won twice, draw 8 times, and lost 18 times.
Lecce sits in the 16th place in the standings with 25 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Hellas Verona in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 5 times, draw 10 times, and lost 13 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Salernitana
Salernitana has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up during the season (16 times or 57.14%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (16 times), 4-3-2-1 (4 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 4-3-1-2 (2 times), 3-5-2 (2 times) and 4-3-3 (once).
Fabio Liverani is expected to play against Lecce with the following players: Guillermo Ochoa, Domagoj Bradaric, Konstantinos Manolas, Lorenzo Pirola , Alessandro Zanoli, Giulio Maggiore, Lassana Coulibaly , Toma Bašić, Antonio Candreva, Loum Tchaouna and Shon Weissman.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Salernitana would be 28.27.
Fabio Liverani will probably not be able to employ Jérôme Boateng, Federico Fazio and Norbert Gyomber because of injury.
Niccolò Pierozzi and Boulaye Dia will definitely miss the match.
Fabio Liverani will not be able to have the presence of Grigoris Kastanos who is suspended.
Lecce
Lecce has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (26 times or 92.86%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (26 times), 4-2-3-1 (once) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Luca Gotti is expected to play against Salernitana with the following players: Wladimiro Falcone, Antonino Gallo, Marin Pongracic, Federico Baschirotto, Valentin Gendrey, Hamza Rafia, Alexis Blin, Ylber Ramadani, Nicola Sansone, Pontus Almqvist and Nikola Krstović.
Suppose that this will be the line-up, the average age of Lecce would be 26.82.
Federico Brancolini, Kastriot Dermaku and Mohamed Kaba will definitely miss the match.
Luca Gotti will not be able to have the presence of Lameck Banda who is suspended.