Genoa won 2–1 away to Lecce on 1 November, with every goal arriving in the first half. Milutin Osmajic opened the scoring after 11 minutes from a Junior Messias assist. Messias then scored the second in the 28th, supplied by Stephan El Shaarawy. ESPN’s match record.
Youssef Maleh reduced Lecce’s deficit with a free-kick in the 40th minute, leaving the home side one goal short of parity at the interval. The score did not change during the second half, allowing Genoa to protect the advantage established before the break.
Lecce led the full-match attempts count 18–13 and shots on target 7–3, with 52.9 per cent possession. The contrast is useful when reading the result: Genoa scored twice from their three attempts on target, while the home side’s larger statistical output did not produce the second goal required for a draw. Messias’s goal and assist were both part of the early scoring phase.
The match record dates this fixture to 2026-11-01T19:00:00+02:00 (Asia/Jerusalem). Source: ESPN match record, checked on 2 November 2026.
Archival cover photograph: Archival photograph: Junior Messias wearing Milan’s shirt in 2022; not an image of the current event. Photographer/creator: Saggittarius A. Image source and metadata; CC BY-SA 4.0. The Wikimedia-supplied file is used without raster edits. Image date as recorded by the source: 2022-02-13 12:45:14.
