Juventus make the long trip to the Stadio Via del Mare on Saturday to face newly promoted Lecce in Serie A, aiming to pick up all three points and stay top of the league.
After edging out Inter 2-1 at the San Siro at the start of October to move to the top of the table, they beat Bologna at home last weekend to ensure they kept this one-point advantage at the top of the league.
Maurizio Sarri’s side have 22 points from their opening eight games and will look to maintain their unbeaten start against a Lecce side who sit 16th in Serie A.
However, Lecce’s manager Fabio Liverani will have been pleased with his side last weekend after they picked up a point in an entertaining draw away at Milan, and will looking to build upon this performance.
Serie A: Juventus vs. Lecce
- Date: Saturday, Oct. 26
- Time: 9 a.m. ET
- Location: Stadio Comunale Via del Mare
- TV channel: None
- Streaming: ESPN+
- Odds: Juve -345 | Lecce +900 | Draw +425
HOW TO WATCH
Television: TLN (Canada); Sky Sport Serie A, Sky Calcio 1, NOW TV, Sky Supercalcio HD (Italy)
Online/mobile: ESPN+ (United States); DAZN (Canada); SKY Go Italia (Italy)
Juventus will have had nearly four full days of rest between the comeback win over Lokomotiv Moscow and the trip to Lecce. That’s a little more time than we’re used to when it comes to quick turnarounds after Champions League fixtures.
Maybe Juve will show no ill effects of the Champions League fixture on Tuesday night. Or maybe they will show that they’re a team that had to use all of the juice they had to do and this game will be one where they need to just scratch and claw to get three points.
Lecce XI: Gabriel, Meccariello, Rossettini, Lucioni, Calderoni, Majer, Tacthsidis, Tabanelli, Mancosu, Farias, Babacar.
Juventus XI: Szczesny, Danilo, Bonucci, De Ligt, Alex Sandro, Emre Can, Pjanic, Bentacur, Bernardeschi, Dybala, Higuain.
