📊 Form Guide

Cagliari

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Cagliari will be hoping for a better result following the 2-0 Serie A loss in their previous game against Roma.

In that match, Cagliari had 47% possession and 3 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Roma got 15 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Donyell Malen (25', 65') scored for Roma.

Over their last six games, Fabio Pisacane's Cagliari have managed to score 9 times giving them an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.5.

Pre-game facts show that Cagliari:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Lecce in their previous 2 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Lecce

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Lecce go into this game following a 2-1 Serie A win to beat Udinese in their last fixture.

In that game, Lecce had 53% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Lecce, the goalscorers were Omri Gandelman (5') and Lameck Banda (90'). Udinese got 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Oumar Solet (26') scored for Udinese.

Looking at their form, and Lecce have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 6 goals in total. In defence, Lecce can certainly do much better. Despite that, it remains to be seen whether the trend shall be replicated in this upcoming match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Lecce:

• haven't beaten Cagliari when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 6 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 12/07/2020 shows us that Cagliari have won 2 of them & Lecce 1, with the tally of drawn games being 3.

13 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 8 of them from Casteddu / Rossoblu and 5 for Giallorossi. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The previous league match between these clubs was Serie A match day 4 on 19/09/2025 which ended up with the score at Lecce 1-2 Cagliari.

In that game, Lecce managed 52% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player to score was Gabriel (5').

At the other end, Cagliari got 15 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Andrea Belotti (33', 71') was the scorer.

The referee was Luca Zufferli.

📋 Team News: Cagliari

We think that Casteddu / Rossoblu should kick off with a 4-4-2 formation for the game and select Elia Caprile, Gabriele Zappa, Yerry Mina, Juan Rodriguez, Adam Obert, Marco Palestra, Michel Ndary Adopo, Ibrahim Sulemana, Riyad Idrissi, Semih Kilicsoy and Sebastiano Esposito.

📋 Team News: Lecce

Lecce manager Eusebio Di Francesco has to currently contend with reduced team options. Matías Pérez (unknown injury) and Francesco Camarda (Shoulder injury) are not ready for selection. Lameck Banda will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

It’s our belief that Giallorossi appear most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Wladimiro Falcone, Danilo Veiga, Kialonda Gaspar, Tiago Gabriel, Antonino Gallo, Ylber Ramadani, Lassana Coulibaly, Santiago Pierotti, Omri Gandelman, Riccardo Sottil and Walid Cheddira.

✨ Prediction

Lecce will have to perform well to breach the defence of this Cagliari lineup who we think will likely end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

That’s why we have predicted a hard-fought 1-0 advantage for Cagliari at the end of this one.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Renata Leite, 19:22 16/02/2026