Serie A | Verona 1-1 Lecce: Disappointing point each too little for both teams

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Tete Morente tested Lorenzo Montipò at the near post after a free kick routine and Lecce took a deserved lead when Nikola Krstovic sprung the offside trap on the Tete Morente through ball, beating the on-rushing goalkeeper. He celebrated by holding up the shirt representing physiotherapist Graziano Fiorita, who died suddenly last month.

Lecce continued to have the better of the game, Tete Morente volleying over from the edge of the area, but Verona equalised when Tomas Suslov floated a free kick to the back post for the Coppola free header, which looped into the far top corner.

Krstovic grazed a coat of paint off the near post with a ferocious curler, but Hellas came out fighting for the restart, testing Wladimiro Falcone with Amine Sarr’s header and a Suat Serdar effort.

Coppola nearly added a second, this time his glancing header from a corner flashing just wide of the far post, while Lecce threatened on the counter-attack, Lameck Banda unable to get a tap-in on the Santiago Pierotti ball across the face of goal.

Kialonda Gaspar was forced off for Lecce after being wiped out in an aerial collision with Danilo Mosquera, while Medon Berisha surged forward and tested Montipò with a solo attempt.

The result means Hellas are not quite safe yet, but Lecce are caught by Empoli in third from bottom.

Verona 1-1 Lecce

Krstovic 23 (L), Coppola 41 (V)

11-05-2025 14:00 MatchDay 36 Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi

Verona

Lecce 1 - 1

Player statistic

1st half

Tomas Suslov		15'
		23'		Nikola Krstovic (Assist: Tete Morente)
Ondrej Duda		31'
Diego Coppola (Assist: Tomas Suslov)

41'     2nd half

Cheikh Niasse		72'
Jackson Tchatchoua

90+1'     Verona Lecce

Starting lineups

1

Lorenzo Montipò Goalkeeper 87 Daniele Ghilardi Defender 42 Diego Coppola Defender 3 Martin Frese Defender 6 Nicolás Valentini Defender 81' 33

Ondrej Duda Midfielder 9 Amin Sarr Attacker 76' 11 Casper Tengstedt Attacker 63' 10

Cheikh Niasse Attacker 75' 38 Jackson Tchatchoua Attacker 31

Tomas Suslov Attacker 46' 30

Wladimiro Falcone Goalkeeper 25

Antonino Gallo Defender 6 Federico Baschirotto Defender 12

Frédéric Guilbert Defender 46' 4 Kialonda Gaspar Defender 75' 75 Balthazar Pierret Midfielder 66' 29

Lassana Coulibaly Midfielder 14 Thórir Jóhann Helgason Midfielder 10

Konan N’Dri Attacker 55' 9

Nikola Krstovic Attacker 7 Tete Morente Attacker

55'

Substitutes

8

Darko Lazovic Midfielder 5

Davide Faraoni Defender 22

Alessandro Berardi Goalkeeper 20

Grigoris Kastanos Midfielder 34 Simone Perilli Goalkeeper 12

Domagoj Bradaric Defender 7 Mathis Lambourde Attacker 72 Junior Ajayi Attacker 2 Daniel Oyegoke Defender Tobias Slotsager Defender 25

Suat Serdar Midfielder 46' 35 Daniel Mosquera Attacker 63' 14

Dailon Rocha Livramento Attacker 75' 24

Antoine Bernede Midfielder 76' 4 Flavius Daniliuc Defender 81' 3

Ante Rebic Attacker 11

Nicola Sansone Attacker 23 Rares Burnete Attacker 32 Jasper Samooja Goalkeeper 99 Marco Sala Defender 8 Hamza Rafia Midfielder 1

Christian Früchtl Goalkeeper 37

Jesper Karlsson Attacker 20

Ylber Ramadani Midfielder 77 Mohamed Kaba Midfielder 17 Danilo Veiga Defender 46' 22

Lameck Banda Attacker 55' 50 Santiago Pierotti Attacker 55' 5 Medon Berisha Midfielder 66' 44

Tiago Gabriel Defender

75'