Frosinone Calcio 5-1 US Lecce: Serie A Match Report, 29 October 2026

Frosinone Calcio 5-1 US Lecce was 2-0 at half-time, and the second half added four more goals, three of them Frosinone's. Lecce's only goal came after the interval, when they were already at least two behind. The order of the second-half goals is not on record, and neither is who scored any of the six. It was a Thursday-evening game in October's final week, when nothing on the site was being updated, so no pick of ours exists for it.

Five goals is the most Frosinone have scored in a league game this season, and four the widest winning margin. They came in seventh on 14 points from eight games, goal difference +4, having scored four in each of their two previous matches: 4-2 at home to Sassuolo and 4-4 at Atalanta four days earlier. Since promotion they had won three of their four home games, the exception a 1-0 defeat by Juventus in their opening game.

Lecce were 14th on 9 points, goal difference -5, from three wins and five defeats, with no draws at all in eight games. Their away form had been the better half of that: wins at Venezia and Udinese, defeats at Cagliari and Milan. They had conceded four once, 4-0 at home to Roma in August. This was the first time they had let in five.

Frosinone and Lecce had not met in the league in the last two seasons, which leaves no head-to-head to weigh.

Frosinone move to 17 points from nine games, and their goal difference doubles, from +4 to +8. Lecce were five points behind them going in and are eight behind now. Thirteen goals in their last three league games is a burst, but it came with seven conceded, and three matches are not the measure of a season. The steadier fact is the total, 17 points from nine games for a club that was not in the division last season.

Lecce stay on 9 points from nine, and their goal difference falls from -5 to -9. Nine from nine is exactly the rate at which they finished 17th on 38 last season, so the points column says they are where they were. The goals columns say something different. Ten scored in nine is a better rate than last season's 28 in 38, which was the joint-lowest in the division; nineteen conceded is a heavier rate than the 50 in 38 they let in then. Six defeats and no draws from nine games is a record that has gone one way or the other every time out.