Eusebio Di Francesco warns Napoli: Lecce doesn’t play not to take a beating

Lecce will host Napoli on Tuesday night, in the first midweek round of Serie A 2025-2026. Despite visiting one of the two league leaders along with Roma, however, Eusebio Di Francesco does not want to see a team focused only on the goal of not losing.

“To experience matches like these is beautiful. I would like to have the chance to play them again now – Di Francesco confessed in the press conference – Already the match itself will give us a lot of motivation, I will then give my all to support Lecce who must play a great game. And we will certainly not have to just close ourselves off so as not to cash in”.

“Against teams like that, if you just defend, sooner or later you risk getting the goal– stressed Di Francesco. “The thing to do is to try to counter it, Napoli certainly has great quality and we must not do everything we can to counter it. We will do it by changing three or four men compared to the game against Udinese, but I will not tell you who they will be”.

“Napoli is a team of great values, they are reigning champions of Italy and are leading the league. Surely we will need great attention, but fundamental will be Lecce’s approach on the field. Also because Lukaku is missing, so something in their way of attacking will be different. But we will also be facing McTominay and Anguissa, both of whom are dangerous because of their ability to fit in”, Di Francesco added.