Musa Barrow scores late winner, assists twice to earn Bologna victory over Lecce

Musa Barrow continued his rich vein of goalscoring after netting the winner in a 3-2 win over Lecce on Sunday, and provided two assists as well.

The Rossoblu were up against Barrow’s parent club Atalanta in midweek, but Sinisa Mihajlovic’s side lost 1-0 with the Gambian starting and playing for 64 minutes before he was replaced by Nicola Sansone.

This time, the men in red and blue raced into a 2-0 lead inside the opening five minutes through former Inter Milan striker Rodrigo Palacio and Roberto Soriano.

Barrow assisted both two goals - the first after holding up a Lecce player before releasing the ball for Palacio to tuck home from close range, and then provided a fine pass to Soriano on the left flank moments later which he blasted home from 25 yards.

Lecce pulled one back just before half-time via Marco Mancosu before Filippo Falco equalised for the visitors in the 66th minute.

Just when it seemed a draw was going to be the likely result, Barrow popped up with the winning goal in stoppage time.

The 21-year-old started a counter-attack with Federico Santander making a run from the centre-circle into the penalty box free of any opposition players.

His effort was, however, palmed away by Lecce goalkeeper Gabriel, the rebound fell to Riccardo Orsolini and he passed the ball to Barrow who riffled in a volley.

Barrow’s goal tally for Bologna now stands at nine coupled with three assists. Six of those goals have come since the restart of Serie A with only one of the games in which he scored ending in defeat (three wins, two draws).

It is also the second time the Gambia international has had a hand in three goals since scoring a brace and providing an assist in a 3-2 away win at Roma on February 7.

Barrow had a very impressive outing on Sunday with a total of 10 shots, two of which were on target.

He hit the woodwork once and missed two big scoring chances. He also had three successful dribbles from five attempts. His contribution still included 83 touches, the highest of any Bologna player, nine key passes and 39 accurate passes at an 81% success rate.

The Rossoblu are in 11th place with 46 points and are very much clear of relegation with games against Fiorentina and Torino left to end their campaign.