Serie A | Lecce 1-1 Fiorentina: Big goal keeps slender hope alive

Cheddira also failed to make the most of a hard and low Ylber Ramadani cross, with almost all their attacks coming down the right flank.

The first real Fiorentina attack was on 28 minutes, as Wladimiro Falcone flew to parry the Rolando Mandragora screamer from the edge of the box.

It was only a warning, as they took the lead moments later. Mandragora threaded through down the right for Jack Harrison, who cut inside to bend a wonderful left-foot finish into the far corner from 12 yards. Not only was it his first goal for Fiorentina, it ended a drought of over a year in league games.

It should’ve been 2-0 when the Viola went on a rapid counter-attack, Roberto Piccoli sliding onto the Dodo assist from six yards only to prod it inches wide.

A Mandragora header and Oumar Ngom effort were both too weak to really trouble the goalkeepers from promising positions, then Cheddira couldn’t connect with a Lassana Coulibaly cross at the back stick.

Coulibaly also failed to make the most of a Konan N’Dri pull-back after the restart, then there was a mad scramble on another N’Dri assist, this time Marin Pongracic with the crucial block on Coulibaly in the six-yard box.

Ramadani drilled wide, then substitute Lameck Banda’s swerving strike forced a great fingertip save from David De Gea to push it round the far post.

Lecce got their equaliser on the resulting corner, Tiago Gabriel getting in front of Cher Ndour to nod in Antonino Gallo’s set play, ending a three-game drought for his team.

Ndour’s header on a corner moments later was inches over the bar, but Lecce really should’ve gone 2-1 up when Pierotti got it all wrong on the Banda pull-back, ballooning over from six yards.

The hosts threw everything forward in a desperate bid to get all three points, but their inability to convert chances has been a problem all season.

Lecce 1-1 Fiorentina

Harrison 30 (F), Tiago Gabriel 71 (L)

20-04-2026 19:45 MatchDay 33 Stadio Ettore Giardiniero - Via del Mare

Lecce

Fiorentina Live 1 - 1

Player statistic

1st half

30'

Jack Harrison (Assist: Rolando Mandragora)

2nd half

Santiago Pierotti		62'
Tiago Gabriel (Assist: Antonino Gallo)

71'     Tiago Gabriel 72'         76' David de Gea     80' Marin Pongracic     82' Jacopo Fazzini     90+1'

Manor Solomon Lecce Fiorentina

Starting lineups

30

Wladimiro Falcone Goalkeeper 25

Antonino Gallo Defender 85' 17 Danilo Veiga Defender 5 Jamil Siebert Defender 44 Tiago Gabriel Defender 29

Lassana Coulibaly Midfielder 79 Oumar Ngom Midfielder 57' 20

Ylber Ramadani Midfielder 11

Konan N’Dri Attacker 56' 50 Santiago Pierotti Attacker 99

Walid Cheddira Attacker 57' 43

David de Gea Goalkeeper 2

Dodô Defender 6

Luca Ranieri Defender 5

Marin Pongracic Defender 27 Cher Ndour Midfielder 80' 44

Nicolò Fagioli Midfielder 80' 21

Robin Gosens Midfielder 11' 8

Rolando Mandragora Midfielder 10

Albert Gudmundsson Attacker 60' 17

Jack Harrison Attacker

80' 91

Roberto Piccoli Attacker

Substitutes

14 Thórir Jóhann Helgason Midfielder 32 Jasper Samooja Goalkeeper 1

Christian Früchtl Goalkeeper 36

Filip Marchwinski Midfielder 18 Gaby Jean Defender 13 Matías Pérez Defender 28 Olaf Gorter Midfielder 80 Niko Kovač Midfielder 6 Álex Sala Midfielder 19

Lameck Banda Attacker 56' 16 Omri Gandelman Midfielder 57' 9 Nikola Stulic Attacker 57' 3 Corrie Ndaba Defender 85' 3

Daniele Rugani Defender 1 Luca Lezzerini Goalkeeper 53

Oliver Christensen Goalkeeper 15 Pietro Comuzzo Defender 60 Eddy Kouadio Defender 23

Eman Kospo Defender 61 Riccardo Braschi Attacker 69 Giorgio Puzzoli Midfielder 62 Luis Balbo Defender 11' 19

Manor Solomon Attacker 60' 22 Jacopo Fazzini Midfielder 80' 4

Marco Brescianini Midfielder 80' 80

Giovanni Fabbian Midfielder

80'