This coming weekend is as special as it is important for the Juventus Women's First Team, who take on Roma at the Allianz Stadium on Matchday 6 of this Serie A season. Kick off is set for 15:30 CEST on Sunday, 13 October.
The Bianconere have enjoyed a perfect start to the season so far and have won each of their five games to date, leaving them top of the table with 15 points to their name.
Roma, meanwhile, have nine points from heir five matches and sit in fourth, behind both Fiorentina and Inter as well as Juventus. The Giallorosse, though, did claim a big 1-0 win in midweek against Wolfsburg in their Women’s Champions League opener.
Get yourself up to speed with our Matchday 6 preview below.
Head-to-head
- Sunday will be the 23rd fixture between Juventus and Roma across all competitions. Juventus have won 15 of those 22 so far, with Roma coming out on top five times.
- Juventus are the team against whom Roma have conceded the most goals in Serie A (35, at least 14 more than any other opponent).
- The Bianconere have gone unbeaten in six of the previous seven home matches against Roma, winning five of those and drawing once.
Interesting Facts
- Sunday’s game will see the two sides with the longest unbeaten runs in Serie A face off - eight matches in the case of Juventus, and six for Roma.
- The Bianconere have scored in 15 consecutive Serie A games against Roma, only managing better runs against Sassuolo (17) and Fiorentina (18).
- Of the teams to have played more than three matches this season across Europe, Juventus are along with Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich as the only sides to have won each of them.
- Juventus have scored more goals from set pieces than anybody in Serie A this season with eight, while Roma are second in this ranking with their four.
- Roma (32) and Juventus (31) are two of the three the sides with the most shots on target this season in Serie A, behind only Inter (34).
Player Numbers
- Four of the seven players to have had a hand in at least four Serie A goals this season play for Juventus or Roma - Cristiana Girelli (three goals, one assist), Arianna Caruso (two and two), Evelyne Viens (three and one) and Manuela Giugliano (three and one).
- Nobody has scored more goals against Roma than Cristiana Girelli’s six.
- Sofia Cantore is Juventus’ top scorer this season across all competitions with five goals, and she has four career goals against Roma, only managing a better tally against Empoli (five).
- Arianna Caruso has scored or assisted in each of her last four Serie A appearances, and could string together her best such run since between March and May 2023, then reaching five.
Opposition Focus
- Despite being just her second Serie A season, Evelyne Viens is Roma’s highest-scoring player against Juventus with four goals. Only Tabitha Chawinga and Daniela Sabatino have ever scored as many goals against the Bianconere.
- Emilie Have is set to make her 100th Roma appearance in her next outing, which could come at the Allianz Stadium.
- No defender in Roma’s history has scored more goals than Elena Linari’s 12.