Palermo 2-0 Lecce · Coppa Italia
Palermo beat Lecce 2-0 in the Coppa Italia. Full match statistics, the goal timeline and both lineups are below.
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Match report
Palermo and Lecce met in the Coppa Italia at Renzo Barbera in Palermo on Monday, 17 August 2026.
Goalscorers
Palermo: D. Vavassori 14'; J. Pohjanpalo 42'. Lecce did not score.
How the match went
Lecce saw more of the ball, 55% of it. Palermo had 12 shots with 5 on target, Lecce 18 with 4 on target. There were 10 corners in total, 2 to Palermo and 8 to Lecce. Palermo conceded 12 fouls, Lecce 9. The referee showed 2 yellow cards (1 for Palermo, 1 for Lecce).
Line-ups
Palermo started in a 4-2-3-1: Jesse Joronen, Niccolò Pierozzi, Patryk Peda, Pietro Ceccaroni, Tommaso Augello, Jacopo Segre, Filippo Ranocchia, Dominic Vavassori, Antonio Palumbo, Dennis Johnsen, Joel Pohjanpalo.
Lecce started in a 4-2-3-1: Wladimiro Falcone, Danilo Veiga, Kialonda Gaspar, Tiago Gabriel, Antonino Gallo, Youssef Maleh, Oumar Ngom, Santiago Pierotti, Lassana Coulibaly, Konan N'Dri, Willem Geubbels.
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Minute by minute
- 14'Goal! Palermo 1-0 Lecce. D. Vavassori (Palermo) scores, assisted by P. Peda.
- 42'Goal! Palermo 2-0 Lecce. J. Pohjanpalo (Palermo) scores, assisted by D. Johnsen.
- 45'Half-time. Palermo 2-0 Lecce.
- 90'Full-time. Palermo 2-0 Lecce.
Full commentary (61 lines)
- 1'Kick-off: Palermo vs Lecce.
- 1'Offside, Lecce.
- 1'Attempt blocked. L. Coulibaly (Lecce), right-footed shot. xG 0.04.
- 5'Substitution, Palermo: M. Fortin comes on for J. Joronen.
- 8'Attempt blocked. D. Johnsen (Palermo), right-footed shot. xG 0.10.
- 12'Attempt saved. P. Ceccaroni (Palermo), header from a set piece. xG 0.04.
- 14'Attempt saved. D. Johnsen (Palermo), right-footed shot on the counter. xG 0.12.
- 14'Goal! Palermo 1-0 Lecce. D. Vavassori (Palermo) scores, assisted by P. Peda.
- 19'Attempt missed. J. Pohjanpalo (Palermo), header on the counter. xG 0.15.
- 20'Yellow card for A. Palumbo (Palermo) for foul.
- 22'Attempt missed. N. Pierozzi (Palermo), right-footed shot from a throw-in. xG 0.03.
- 28'Attempt missed. W. Geubbels (Lecce), right-footed shot. xG 0.05.
- 31'Attempt blocked. W. Geubbels (Lecce), right-footed shot. xG 0.31.
- 31'Offside, Lecce.
- 33'Attempt missed. F. Ranocchia (Palermo), right-footed shot. xG 0.05.
- 33'Attempt missed. W. Geubbels (Lecce), left-footed shot. xG 0.54.
- 35'Yellow card for L. Coulibaly (Lecce) for foul.
- 37'Offside, Palermo.
- 42'Goal! Palermo 2-0 Lecce. J. Pohjanpalo (Palermo) scores, assisted by D. Johnsen.
- 45'7 minutes of added time.
- 45+3'Offside, Lecce.
- 45+7'Attempt missed. D. Johnsen (Palermo), right-footed shot. xG 0.06.
- 45'Half-time. Palermo 2-0 Lecce.
- 46'The second half is under way.
- 46'Substitution, Lecce: N. Štulić comes on for Y. Maleh.
- 46'Substitution, Palermo: J. Le Douaron comes on for J. Pohjanpalo.
- 46'Substitution, Palermo: Hernani comes on for A. Palumbo.
- 46'Attempt missed. N. Štulić (Lecce), header. xG 0.07.
- 49'Corner, Lecce.
- 49'Attempt missed. T. Gabriel (Lecce), header from a corner. xG 0.13.
- 53'Corner, Palermo.
- 54'Attempt blocked. N. Štulić (Lecce), right-footed shot. xG 0.35.
- 56'Attempt missed. W. Geubbels (Lecce), header. xG 0.14.
- 56'Attempt blocked. S. Pierotti (Lecce), left-footed shot. xG 0.06.
- 59'Attempt missed. N. Štulić (Lecce), right-footed shot. xG 0.05.
- 61'Corner, Lecce.
- 61'Attempt saved. N. Konan (Lecce), right-footed shot. xG 0.27.
- 61'Attempt saved. W. Geubbels (Lecce), left-footed shot. xG 0.99.
- 61'Attempt saved. W. Geubbels (Lecce), right-footed shot. xG 0.93.
- 62'Substitution, Palermo: G. Strefezza comes on for D. Johnsen.
- 64'Attempt missed. N. Konan (Lecce), left-footed shot. xG 0.09.
- 66'Attempt saved. J. Segre (Palermo), right-footed shot. xG 0.04.
- 66'Offside, Palermo.
- 67'Attempt missed. G. Strefezza (Palermo), right-footed shot. xG 0.02.
- 71'Offside, Palermo.
- 74'Substitution, Lecce: H. Lærke comes on for S. Pierotti.
- 74'Substitution, Lecce: O. Gorter comes on for O. Ngom.
- 75'Corner, Palermo.
- 75'Attempt blocked. G. Strefezza (Palermo), left-footed shot. xG 0.11.
- 76'Corner, Lecce.
- 76'Attempt missed. D. Veiga (Lecce), right-footed shot from a corner. xG 0.02.
- 76'Attempt saved. H. Lærke (Lecce), left-footed shot. xG 0.10.
- 76'Attempt blocked. N. Konan (Lecce), left-footed shot. xG 0.04.
- 77'Substitution, Palermo: N. Estévez comes on for F. Ranocchia.
- 81'Attempt missed. W. Geubbels (Lecce), right-footed shot. xG 0.12.
- 84'Substitution, Lecce: P. Esteban comes on for W. Geubbels.
- 84'Corner, Lecce.
- 88'Substitution, Lecce: M. Kaba comes on for L. Coulibaly.
- 90'5 minutes of added time.
- 90+1'Corner, Lecce.
- 90'Full-time. Palermo 2-0 Lecce.