Lecce beats Juventus 2-0 as both teams down to 10 men
Lecce beat Juventus 2-0 in a Serie A encounter at the Stadio Via del mare on Sunday afternoon. Goals from Djamel Mesbah and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lazio-c39775.
Luigi De Canio made several changes to his starting line-up that lost to Catania 3-2 last weekend. David Di Michele started upfront in a 4-2-3-1 formation for the hosts. Luigi Del Neri named the same line-up that beat http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan 1-0 last weekend.
The first half witnessed a slow start as both teams passed the ball in their own halves. Buffon was shown a red card by the referee when he handled the ball just outside the box. The visitors were immediately on the back foot as Milos Krasic was sacrificed to bring in a specialist goalkeeper, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marco-Storari-c23751. The hosts started dominating the possession as they took advantage of an extra man in the midfield. Just after the hour mark, Lecce went into the lead thanks to Mesbah. Gianni Munari angled the ball over to Mesbah, who brought the ball down and fired through the legs of Storari to make it 1-0. The visitors were nowhere to be seen in the first half as they never threatened the Lecce goal. The hosts came close to doubling their lead just before the half time whistle as Munari crossed into the Juve area and Carlos Grossmuller skewed his shot across the goal and out for a goal kick.
Juventus replaced http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Giorgio-Chiellini-c14963 and he was off. The visitors were unable to threaten the Lecce goal after that and they slumped to their seventh defeat of the season.
Juventus will face Bologna in their next encounter on 26th February, while Lecce will take on Brescia on 27th February.
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