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Italian Soccer Serie A
52% Ball Possession LECCE and 48% Ball Possession HELLAS VERONA
Lecce 0 – 1 Hellas Verona 
. 71′ Cyril Ngonge
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Hellas Verona, 18th position with 27 points and a negative goal difference of -24
Lecce, 16th position with 31 points and a negative goal difference of -12
Hellas Verona win the Serie A Week 34 defeating Lecce on Sunday 7 May 2023 at the Via Del Mare Stadium in Lecce, Italy. From 30 April 2022, after more than a year, Verona are back to winning away games and they do it in the most difficult moment of the season. The 6-0 suffered in the last match against Inter didn’t scare. Verona can breathe a sigh of relief: Spezia, currently in the relegation zone, remains at -3 and with this victory Verona are getting close to Lecce at -1 maintaining the fourth from last place.
Verona remained unbeaten against newly promoted opponents in Serie A under Marco Zaffaroni on the bench: two wins followed by two draws; however, the Gialloblù have not won away against teams from Serie B since 5 December 2021, against Venezia (4-3).
Lecce have not found success in nine of their 11 Serie A matches against opponents with fewer points in the standings than the Apulians at the start of the day (D4, L5); the only two victories in the set came against Sampdoria on 12 November 2022 and against Cremonese on 4 February 2023.
Cyril Ngonge opened the score defeating Lecce goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone with a left-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The headed assist is by Milan Djuric.
👉Lecce 0 – 1 Hellas Verona, 71st minute, ⚽️ goal by Cyril Ngonge for @HellasVeronaFC with a left-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The headed assist is by Milan Djuric. https://t.co/FXL0JommNj
— Anna Italia (@ItalianSerieA) May 7, 2023
✅ Stats before the game: Verona are unbeaten in six Serie A matches against Lecce (W4, D2) and in particular they have won all the most recent three without conceding a goal.
Lecce lost their last home match against Verona in Serie A (0-1), having gone unbeaten in all the previous six (W4, D2); moreover, he can remain without goals in two consecutive home games against the gialloblù for the first time in the competition. Verona have kept clean sheets in each of their last three meetings against Lecce in Serie A, in their history in the top flight, only twice have they recorded a longer run of consecutive games without conceding a goal against a single opponent: against Inter (five between 1976 and 1978) and against Pisa (six between 1983 and 1988). Lecce have only found success in one of the seven home matches played in the second round of this championship (D2, L4), precisely in the most recent (1-0 against Udinese); the Giallorossi could win consecutive home matches in Serie A for the first time since last January (against Atalanta and Lazio).
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📺 Click the video to watch Lecce 0 – 1 Hellas Verona highlights on Sunday 7 May 2023
The Via Del Mare Stadium ready for Lecce vs Hellas Verona
Photo via twitter.com/OfficialUSLecce
Photo via twitter.com/OfficialUSLecce
Photo via twitter.com/OfficialUSLecce
Photo via twitter.com/hellasveronafc
Photo via twitter.com/hellasveronafc
👉🇮🇹 First half is over. Lecce 0 – 0 Hellas Verona
⚽️ Goals: 0
🟨 Yellows: 19′ Marco Faraoni (V), 22′ Morten Hjulmand (L), 34′ Oliver Abildgaard (V)
✍ Ball Possession: 43% @OfficialUSLecce and 57% @HellasVeronaFC
✅ https://t.co/tUiHtnSoAv@TheCalcioGuys @SerieASitdown https://t.co/HfcKgjpIUH
— Anna Italia (@ItalianSerieA) May 7, 2023
👉🇮🇹 Result Lecce 0 – 1 Hellas Verona
⚽️ Goals: 71′ Cyril Ngonge
🟨 Yellows: Lecce 2, Verona 5
✍ Ball Possession: 52% @OfficialUSLecce and 48% @HellasVeronaFC
✅ https://t.co/tUiHtnSoAv@TheCalcioGuys @SerieASitdown @HVeronaarg @HellasVeronaUK @TuttoHellasVer1 https://t.co/axPKmBzEjT
— Anna Italia (@ItalianSerieA) May 7, 2023
Photo via twitter.com/OfficialUSLecce
2022 – 2023 Italian Serie A Week 34
Lecce 0 – 1 Hellas Verona
Sunday 7 May 2023
Via Del Mare Stadium
Lecce, Italy
20:45
Referee: MASSA
Assistants: LOMBARDO – PAGLIARDINI
Fourth Official: MARCENARO
VAR: NASCA
AVAR: CHIFFI
Goals: 71′ Cyril Ngonge (V)
🟨 Yellows: 19′ Marco Faraoni (V), 22′ Morten Hjulmand (L), 34′ Oliver Abildgaard (V), 52′ Giangiacomo Magnani (V), 79′ Remi Oudin (L), 82′ Lorenzo Montipò (V), 86′ Cyril Ngonge (V)
Official lineups – formations – tabellino:
Lineup Lecce: Falcone, Baschirotto, Di Francesco (27′ st Banda), Gendrey, Gallo, Strefezza, Oudin (38′ st Colombo), Blin (27′ st Gonzalez), Hjulmand ©, Ceesay, Umtiti.
Subs: Bleve, Brancolini, Romagnoli, Pongracic, Askildsen, Tuia, Helgason, Ceccaroni, Voelkerling, Maleh, Cassandro, Pezzella
Coach: Marco Baroni
Lineup Hellas Verona: Montipò, Faraoni © (25′ st Depaoli), Hien, Verdi (19′ st Ngonge), Lazovic (43′ st Terracciano), Djuric, Magnani, Dawidowicz, Nielsen, Duda (25′ st Sulemana), Tameze.
Subs: Berardi, Perilli, Zeefuik, Doig, Ceccherini, Braaf, Kallon, Cabal, Gaich, Coppola.