Frosinone vs Lecce 5-1

Frosinone beat Lecce 5-1 after taking control with three goals before the hour and adding two more, including Daniel Birligea’s stoppage-time finish. A first-half penalty, a quick third goal after the break and Birligea’s double settled it.

Matteo Cichella opened the scoring in the 25th minute from Farès Ghedjemis’ assist, and Giacomo Calò made it 2-0 from the spot three minutes into first-half stoppage time. Frosinone led 2-0 at half-time.

Lecce made two changes on 45 minutes and then three more in the 57th and 58th minutes, but Frosinone struck again in the 59th minute when Antonio Raimondo scored from Giorgi Kvernadze’s pass to make it 3-0. Frosinone made two changes on 70 minutes, and one of them told at once as Daniel Birligea, who had come on in the 70th minute, had a goal confirmed by VAR and then scored on 72 minutes from Romano Schmid’s assist to make it 4-0. Lecce pulled one back in the 82nd minute through Joel Almada Monteiro, set up by Olaf Gorter, who had come on in the 57th minute, before Birligea, who had come on in the 70th minute, scored his second of the match three minutes into stoppage time to seal 5-1.

Frosinone had 60% of the possession, 361 passes to Lecce’s 246 and 26 shots to 15, with 9 on target compared with 6. They also led the expected goals count 2.96 to 1.3, had 10 corners to 3 and were caught offside 4 times, while Lecce had 5 saves to Frosinone’s 4 and committed 17 fouls to 10.

Lecce collected three yellow cards, for Tiago Gabriel in the 38th minute, Oumar Ngom in the 51st and Jamil Siebert in the 79th. There were no red cards.