AC Milan face Lecce for the second time in six games in the early 2025-26 season, this time hoping to secure progress in the cup.
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Milan followed up a win against Serie B side Bari in the cup by losing to Cremonese in the first league game. The response has been good though: a 2-0 win over Tuesday’s opponents Lecce away from home was followed by a 1-0 victory against Bologna at home and most recently a 3-0 triumph against Udinese.
Key facts and stats
➤ It will be the 47th fixture between Milan and Lecce across all competitions. The head-to-head currently reads 28 wins for the Rossoneri, 15 draws and just two wins for the Apulian side, so it has been very one-sided as you might expect.
➤ A few weeks ago, Milan celebrated a 2-0 win in the league at the Stadio Via del Mare. It took until the second half to break the deadlock, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek scoring a header before Christian Pulisic made sure of the points late on.
➤ Last season’s Serie A meeting at San Siro was not really much of a contest as Alvaro Morata, Theo Hernandez and Christian Pulisic scored inside six first-half minutes in what was an eventual 3-0 win.
➤ The first two matches between the two coaches ended 4-3. The first was won by Allegri, a Lecce-Milan 3-4 in October 2011, with the Rossoneri coming back from 3-0 down; the second was won by Di Francesco in January 2014, a Sassuolo-Milan match, with Berardi scoring four goals for the Neroverdi.
➤ Massimiliano Allegri is the coach who has won the Coppa Italia the most times (5), all with Juventus, and he is also the one who has won the most consecutive editions (4, between 2014/15 and 2017/18), in the same years in which the Livorno coach also won the championship, achieving four consecutive ‘doubles’.
➤ Since joining Milan, Christian Pulisic has scored 34 goals in 104 official matches, including five against Lecce and Falcone (the team and goalkeeper he has scored most against), including the 2-0 win at the Via del Mare in Serie A at the end of August.
➤ Against the Salento side on March 8, in the Rossoneri’s 3-2 win at Lecce, the American scored one of his only two braces in Italy so far (the other against Cagliari on May 11, 2024).