Lecce vs Roma Prediction: Back visitors to break the deadlock late at 10/3

Roma’s recent Serie A stutters mean they arrive at Lecce’s Stadio Via del Mare on Tuesday with their Champions League hopes in dire need of resuscitation (18:00 local, 17:00 GMT, live on DAZN).

Three successive away defeats have seen the Giallorossi fall to fifth spot and they now face a Lecce side whose back-to-back home wins have helped them rise up the table. My Lecce vs Roma predictions are below, complete with latest team news and Betfred’s match odds.

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Team News

Lecce are without the suspended Danilo Veiga, while Medon Berisha, Tete Morente, Christian Fruchtl, Balthazar Pierret and Riccardo Sottil are all injured.

Lassana Coulibaly is at the Africa Cup of Nations with Mali, who beat Tunisia on Saturday to reach the quarter-finals and extend the midfielder’s spell in Morocco.

Eusebio Di Francesco will make a late call between Francesco Camarda and Nikola Stulic to lead the line.

Gian Piero Gasperini also has a number of players unavailable, with Evan Ndicka (Ivory Coast) and Neil El Aynaoui (Morocco) both still engaged in Afcon action.

Gianluca Mancini and Mario Hermoso are both suspended, necessitating a rejig in defence, while Lorenzo Pellegrini, Leon Bailey and Tommaso Baldanzi are injured.

Lecce vs Roma Odds

Despite their back-to-back home wins, the Salentini are a 4/1 chance to pick up the three competition points.

Roma are the 8/11 favourites, implying a 57.9% probability of them getting back to winning ways. It’s 12/5 for the match to end in a draw.

Betfred have a number of Price Boosts available, with Paulo Dybala to score the first goal now 5/1 from 4/1.

Lecce are 13/2 to score in both halves (from 11/2), while it’s also 13/2 for Roma to win, both teams to score and Evan Ferguson to get a goal. That, too, was 11/2 initially.

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Only Roma to Score @ 8/5

While they haven’t been at their best of late and have a bit of a conundrum to solve in their defensive line, this should be Roma’s game to lose.

Lecce are the joint-lowest scorers in Serie A, with just 12 goals scored in 18 matches, and Roma have the equal-best defence.

Sure, Gasperini has two of his usual three centre-halves missing, but it’s the structure which has set them apart this season rather than individual. So as long as they are well drilled, they ought to have way too much for a struggling Lecce outfit.

Football Odds

Half-Time/Full-Time: Draw/Roma @ 10/3

So often this season, Roma games have been a slow burner without a clear conclusion until the half-way stage.

This ought to be another one, with a depleted Giallorossi unlikely to come out all guns blazing.

If they do indeed win this one, it might not happen in the blink of an eye. Which means the 10/3 available with Betfred is a good-looking bet.

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