LECCE (ITALPRESS) – Rome beats Lecce, puts behind the stop of Bergamo and finds the first victory of 2026. At the Via del Mare, the Giallorossi surpassed for 2-0 the formation of the house and return to the fourth place in the ranking at 36 points, although with two more matches than the head coach Inter (39 points), in Milan (38) and Naples (37). The Lecce remains in the 16th square, at +5 on the trio formed by Fiorentina, Verona and Pisa in the retrocession area. Gasperini arrives in Salento with a strong emergency in defense. Mancini, Hermoso and Ndicka are missing, while Rensch is not doing well and goes on the bench. In front of Svilar there are therefore Celik, Ziolkowski and Ghilardi, who at the 2′ risk a lot with a retropass. After a few minutes of study, Rome takes field and begins to worry the hosts. The ball always passes between the feet of Dybala: First a pass to Wesley intercepted by Gallo, then a cross that puts the creeps at Lecce. At 14′, it is always Joya to receive from Criden at 20 meters from the door, finding a smarking passage for Ferguson, which from the limit leaves a rasoterra and transfixes Falcone: 0-1. Lecce tries to react, but without really scaring the guest rearguard. At 38′ on the development of a corner earned by El Shaarawy, Pisilli signs the doubling but out of play, while shortly after Ferguson you see to deny the doubling by Falcone. Del Rosso tries to shake his own with a change: outside the ammonito Banda, inside N’Dri. The sub-enter in the salentines immediately begins to hammer on the right. Soon after he entered Pierotti, and he was just a little after he wasted a N’Dri assist, hitting badly a few meters from the area and sending the ball to the bottom. In the second half of the shoot, Roma resumes the field and finds the doubling with Dovbyk, who had taken the place of Ferguson shortly before: on the developments of a corner, the ball arrives at Pisilli, who puts it in the middle where the Ukrainian is allowed to deviate on the net for the 2-0 final. – photo Image –(ITALPRESS).
