Roma starting XI (3-5-2): Rui Patricio, Mancini (subbed for Kristensen), Llorente, Ndicka, Karsdorp (subbed for Zalewski), Bove (subbed for Renato Sanches), Cristante, Aouar (subbed for Azmoun), El Shaarawy (subbed for Belotti), Dybala, Lukaku
Bench: Boer, Svilar, Celik, Pagano, Joao Costa
Goals: Azmoun 90+1’, Lukaku 90+4’
Lecce starting XI (4-3-3): Falcone, Gendrey, Pongracic, Baschirotto, Dorgu (subbed for Gallo), Kaba, Ramadani, Rafia (subbed for Gonzalez), Almqvist (subbed for Touba), Krstovic (subbed for Piccoli), Banda (subbed for Strefezza)
Bench: Brancolini, Samooja, Venuti, Smajlovic, Oudin, Berisha, Faticanti, Blin, Sansone, Burnete
Goals: Almqvist 71’
Striker Romelu Lukaku lost his perfect penalty record in Italy but made up for it with a last-minute winner.
The Belgian should have got the hosts off to the perfect start, but his spot kick was saved by Lecce goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone inside five minutes.
It was the first penalty Lukaku had failed to convert in Serie A, having scored 14 times from the spot for Inter.
Lecce broke the deadlock in the 71st minute when Lameck Banda raced down the left and got the ball to Pontus Almqvist, who swept it into the bottom left corner.
It appeared as if the visitors were heading to their first win in seven matches, but Iranian substitute Sardar Azmoun headed in Nicola Zalewski’s cross in the first minute of added time.
And the crowd at the Stadio Olimpico went from despair to delight in less than three minutes as Lukaku then curled Dybala’s through ball into the top left corner.
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