Udinese v Lecce preview: Best home record against Lecce for Udinese
By Udinese
Udinese hosts Lecce Saturday, with pertinent milestones set to etched in stone against a side “I Friulani,” are notorious for holding their best home record against.
Should Nigeria Maduka Okoye start in goal in this upcoming match, he will reach 50 appearances for Udinese, while if Sandi Lovric scores a goal, he will hit double figures with the club.
Udinese will face Lecce on Saturday afternoon. It will be the 35th time the two teams square off in Serie A. Udinese hold a record of 20 wins, three draws and 11 losses.
They also hold a record of 12 wins, two draws and three losses at Bluenergy Stadium, making Lecce the team that Udinese have beaten the most at home percentage-wise (70% of the time).
The Bianconeri have lost only once at home against Lecce over the past eight matches (1-2 on 29 September 2020) and have scored in all of the past 12 consecutive games against them.
The last time Udinese did not score against Lecce was on 23 December 2001. The past three games against them have all ended with Udinese winning and conceding no goals.
Udinese are currently in seventh place in the Serie A expected goals table (11.3 xG so far), with only Milan and Inter ahead of them in terms of clear-cut chances created (17).
Together with Napoli, Udinese are the team who have scored the most in the first 15 minutes of the second half so far this season (four goals); they are also the team with the fewest back passes (only 11.7% of their total passes).
Arthur Atta is the player with the most successful dribbles in Serie A this season (18), while Oumar Solet is second only to Luka Modric when it comes to completed passes (401).
Nicolo Zaniolo scored against Cremonese; that was his first Serie A goal since 14 December 2024. Interestingly, he has scored all his past nine goals in Serie A away.
Speaking of goals, Jordan Zemura’s latest goal came against Lecce, a goal that was decisive in the match between the two teams in the first half of the last season.
This matchday too will feature a former player of one of the two teams: Razvan Sava was the goalkeeper of the 2019/20 Lecce U19 team.
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