LECCE starting XI (4-2-3-1): Falcone, Gendrey, Pongragic, Baschirotto, Gallo (subbed for Dorgu), Kaba (subbed for Gonzalez), Blin, Almqvist, Oudin (subbed for Piccoli), Banda (subbed for Sansone), Krstovic
Bench: Berisha, Brancolini, Rafia, Venuti, Samooja, Burnete, Pierotti, Touba
Goals: Oudin 17’, Piccoli 90’, Dorgu 90+2’
FIORENTINA starting XI (4-2-3-1): Terracciano, Faraoni, Martinez Quarta (subbed for Milenkovic), Ranieri, Biraghi, Maxime Lopez, Duncan (subbed for Mandragora), Bonaventura (subbed for Belotti), Beltran (subbed for Parisi), Sottil (subbed for Gonzalez), Nzola
Bench: Martinelli, Vannucchi, Infantino, Kayode, Comuzzo, Barak
Goals: Mandragora 50’, Beltran 67’
It’s also Fiorentina’s worst start to a calendar year since 2002.
The Florence club has not won since December 29 and have picked up just one point from their last four league games. They move down to eighth on the table.
The dramatic comeback was Lecce’s first victory since before Christmas and lifted the southern side into 13th place.
Lecce dominated the early action and went 1-0 up after 17 minutes when Remi Oudin scored direct from a free kick.
Fiorentina took control in the second half and Rolando Mandragora equalised for the visitors five minutes in when he picked up a clearance 30 metres from goal and rifled a low shot.
Lucas Beltrán made it 2-1 midway through the second half thanks to an atrocious slip up in the Lecce defence. Goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone was slow in clearing the ball and his interception rebounded off Beltrán and into the empty net to mark the Argentine’s fifth goal in his last eight games.
Just when Lecce looked doomed, Piccoli scored with a header in the 90th.
Then Patrick Dorgu sent the home crowd wild when he grabbed the winner two minutes into stoppage time.
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