Opposition Focus | Ten things to know about Lecce

Juventus take on Lecce on Sunday evening at the Via del Mare Stadium, looking to see out a solid week and build on the three important midweek points earned over Sassuolo at the Allianz Stadium which started the second round of the 2023/24 Serie A season in perfect fashion.

Lecce have only won one of their last 15 encounters and sit in 13th place on the Serie A table, just four points above the relegation zone, and are in desperate need of points to give them a lift at the start of the new year.

Ahead of Sunday night's 20:45 CET kick-off, here's ten things to know about our opposition.

1. A 2-1 against Frosinone on 16 December is the Giallorossi’s only victory in their previous 15 encounters in Serie A, having not kept a clean sheet in any of these 15 matches.
2. Lecce have remained unbeaten in their last four league matches at Via Del Mare (W1, D3); the Salento team have not recorded a longer streak without a home defeat in Serie A since the period between January and April 2012 (eight in that case with Serse Cosmi as coach).
3. Lecce have not found the net in three of their last four league matches, as many matches without a goal as in the previous 18 Serie A matches.
4. Since the season in which he scored his first Serie A goal (2020/21), only Stephan El Shaarawy and Ciro Immobile (both seven) and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (six) have scored more goals from the 90th minute of play onwards in top-flight football than Roberto Piccoli: five, including the one against Juventus, wearing the Empoli shirt, at home, last May.
5. No player has created more scoring chances for his teammates without providing any assists than Gabriel Strefezza in the 2023/24 Serie A: 20, equal to Kristian Thorstvedt.
6. Nicola Sansone scored two goals against Juventus in Serie A, both in home matches, one for Parma in January 2013 and one for Sassuolo in October 2015 (from a free-kick).
7. Wladimiro Falcone is one of the only two players to have not yet missed a minute in the last two Serie A seasons (from 2022/23): 5220 minutes, equal to Lorenzo Montipò.
8. Only Michele Di Gregorio (73) has made more saves than Wladimiro Falcone (66) this Serie A season.
9. In the last two Serie A seasons (since 2022/23), Federico Baschirotto is the player who has recorded the highest number of defensive clearances (257).
10. Hamza Rafia played one match for the Juventus first team across all competitions: in the Italian Cup on 13 January 2021, scoring a goal against Genoa.