Week 23 brings us a match on Feb 19th where Atalanta will host Lecce in a meeting of these two Serie A teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 8 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. In their last match, 3rd placed Atalanta, recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Lazio. Davide Zappacosta scored the first goal for Atalanta in the 23rd minute, then Rasmus Højlund added another in the 65th minute on a feed from Ademola Lookman In the end, Lazio was frustrated by Atalanta’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Atalanta ended the match with the shutout victory. Atalanta is looking for direction having earned 14 points in their last 10 matches, while 13th placed Lecce is fresh off their 1-1 draw against Roma. Ibañez scored the first goal for Lecce on an own goal in the 7th minute, but Paulo Dybala got the equalizer for Roma in the 17th minute squeezing out at least the one point for Roma. Lecce is looking for direction having earned 16 points in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, Lecce won by a score of 2 to 1. Federico Baschirotto struck first for Lecce in the 27th minute, then Federico Di Francesco added another in the 29th minute.
Both Gabriel Strefezza and Federico Baschirotto have been the hottest scorers for Lecce in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals each. Atalanta is fortunate enough to have Ademola Lookman in top form. In the last 5 matches the attacker has scored 5 goals.