Roma overwhelms Lecce, at the Olimpico it ends 4-1

ROME (ITALPRESS) – Roma beat Lecce 4-1 at the Stadio Olimpico and climbed to 16 points in the standings on the day of Claudio Ranieri’s 100th Giallorossi bench. Goals from Saelemaekers, Mancini, Pisilli and Kone were decisive in restoring smiles to the Roma environment after four consecutive defeats. The moment is delicate and the infirmary doesn’t help, as Ranieri has to do without Dovbyk, who is ill and not present on the bench. At the center of the attack is Dybala, who plays as a false nine by trade but who, at 5′, deputizes the Ukrainian with a header that nearly surprises Falcone. In the first fourteen games Roma and Lecce were the only two teams not to find a goal in the first 15 minutes of play. The statistic as of tonight, however, no longer holds true for the hosts, who took the lead at 13′: El Shaarawy rewarded Saelemaekers’ cutback in the box, who with his left hand choked the ball just enough to beat Falcone. At 23′ Ranieri lost Celik to injury and inserted Abdulhamid. And it was precisely the Saudi outfielder who committed a penalty foul on Coulibaly at 38′: from the eleven meters Krstovic came up and made no mistake.
In the 50′, Roma came close to making it 2-1: Paredes set the ball up for Saelemaekers, who slotted in with the right timing but failed to beat Falcone, who repeated himself seven minutes later on the violent shot of newcomer Pisilli. The goal, however, was in the air and came in 59′: El Shaarawy served his second assist of the evening with a cross into the box, Mancini’s screwing header sent the ball into the net. In 66′ Roma struck in transition: Dybala set up Abdulhamid, who was good at offloading in the center for the onrushing Pisilli, who with his right swelled the net. In the 86th minute there is the poker: Dybala wins an aerial duel with Gaspar (who gets injured and is forced to leave on a stretcher) and triggers Pisilli, who draws Kone into the box: the Frenchman resists a charge and beats Falcone. In the final there is room for a post hit by Berisha, but the Olimpico at that moment was already celebrating the three points.
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