Game is over and the final score is Roma 2-1 Lecce. Here is the match report.
2022/2023 Serie A
2-1
March Report
Roma beat 10-man Lecce 2-1 to go fifth in Serie A, just four points off top spot.
Chris Smalling continued his recent heroics when he gave Roma the lead after just six minutes. An excellent Lorenzo Pellegrini cross found Smalling waiting in the air to head home.
Lecce lost captain Morten Hjulmand 15 minutes later to a red card for a studs-up challenge which left Andrea Belotti writhing in pain. The challenge was initially deemed only a foul, but VAR upgraded it to a red.
Roma battered the visitors after that but couldn’t extend their lead. In the 39th minute, Lecce got an unexpected equaliser when Gabriel Strefezza scrambled home a loose ball after a short-corner routine.
Jose Mourinho introduced Tammy Abraham at half-time and the England striker won a penalty within a minute of coming on.
Paulo Dybala converted the spot-kick to restore Roma’s lead, but suffered a thigh injury in doing so and had to be withdrawn.
Lecce defended desperately and countered gamely, but Roma were never really threatened and held on for a comfortable victory.
Line-ups
Roma XI: Patricio, Smalling, Dybala, Cristante, Belotti, Pellegrini, G. Mancini, Zaniolo, Vina, Ibanez, Nicola Zalewski
Subs: Matic, El Shaarawy, Spinazzola, Eldor Shomurodov, Mile Svilar, Abraham, Camara, Kumbulla, Pietro Boer, Edoardo Bove, Filippo Tripi, Cristian Volpato, Filippo Missori, D. Keramitsis
Lecce XI: Umtiti, Wladimiro Falcone, Assan Ceesay, Federico Baschirotto, Pezzella, Strefezza, Lameck Banda, Kristoffer Askildsen, Morten Hjulmand, Valentin Gendrey, Joan González
Subs: Alessandro Tuia, Kastriot Dermaku, Marco Bleve, Blin, Di Francesco, Marcin Listkowski, Marin Pongracic, Rémi Oudin, Federico Brancolini, Cetin, Thórir Jóhann Helgason, Antonino Gallo, Lorenzo Colombo, Pablo Rodríguez, Joel Voelkerling Persson