01 November 2024

Preview: Udinese vs Juventus

Juventus are in Friuli for Matchday 11 of this season's Serie A, taking on Udinese at the Friuli Stadium on Saturday evening.

Gear up for the 18:00 CET kick-off with these pre-match musings:

Juventus is the team that has beaten Udinese the most times in Serie A, an impressive 68 times, at least 14 more than any other opponent; completing the tally are 14 Friulian wins and 18 draws.
The Bianconeri have gone unbeaten in 13 of their last 14 away fixtures against Udinese in Serie A (9W, 4D), the Friulani's only home win in this period dates back to 23 July 2020.
Udinese's last goal scored from an indirect free-kick in Serie A came in their last match against Juventus on 12 February (a goal by Lautaro Giannetti following a free-kick taken by Lazar Samardzic).
The most frequent scoreline between these two teams in Serie A is 1-0 in favour of Juventus, the final score of 16 previous meetings, the most recent of which dates back to the match on 4 June 2023 with Federico Chiesa's decisive goal in Friuli.
Udinese won their last match against Juventus in Serie A (1-0 on 12 February at the Allianz Stadium) and have not had two wins in a row against the Bianconeri since the period between 1961 and 1962, with Alfredo Foni as coach.

Juventus have scored in each of their last nine Serie A away fixtures against Udinese, netting 22 goals (an average of 2.4 per game): of the teams currently in the competition, only against Hellas Verona (12) do they have a longer streak of scoring in away games.
Juve have drawn six of their first 10 matches in this Serie A season (4W); the Bianconeri have never recorded seven draws in their first 11 matches in a single Serie A season.
Udinese have lost four of their last six league games (2W), as many defeats as in their previous 16 Serie A matches (6W, 6D, 4L).
The Bianconeri have gone unbeaten in their last 18 league games (6W, 12D); the last time the Bianconeri went on a better unbeaten run was between April 2018 and March 2019: 31 in that case, with Massimiliano Allegri on the bench.
Juventus (90.78%) are one of the four teams in the top five European leagues, with Paris Saint-Germain (91.79%), Manchester City (90.78%) and Bayern Munich (90.22%) recording over 90% successful passes this season.

Kenan Yildiz has scored four away goals in Serie A at the age of 19 years and 176 days, becoming the youngest player to do so for the Bianconeri in the three-points-per-win era and thus overtaking Alessandro Del Piero (20 years and 95 days on 12 February 1995).
Dusan Vlahovic has scored the most goals in Serie A in 2024 (16, including 10 away goals, a record shared in away matches with Lautaro Martínez). The Serbian is the player with the most away goals in the current tournament (five).
As of last season, Weston McKennie (10) is the only midfielder to have reached double figures between goals and assists in a Juventus shirt, at least two more than any other Juventus player.
Douglas Luiz (82% - 9/11) and Khephren Thuram (75% - 9/12) are the two players with the highest percentage of successful dribbles this season (min. 10 dribbles attempted).
Nicolo Savona has taken the field on nine occasions this campaign, featuring for 502 minutes on the pitch. Among Italian defenders born after 1/1/2003, only Pietro Comuzzo (679) and Diego Coppola (676) have played more minutes than Nicolo this term.

In the last two Serie A seasons (since 2023/24), among players born from 2000 onwards, only Dusan Vlahovic (10) has scored more goals than Lorenzo Lucca (eight, like Charles De Ketelaere) in home matches in the competition.
Keinan Davis has already been involved in two goals in 10 appearances in this Serie A (one goal and one assist), already one more than he did last season (one goal in eight appearances);
Since his debut season in Serie A (2022/23), Sandi Lovric has been involved in 16 goals with Udinese in Serie A (seven goals and nine assists); among the players currently in the Friulian team's squad, no one has been involved in more goals than him.
Only Federico Dimarco (14), Dodo (14) and Nuno Tavares (13) have made more successful crosses than Hassane Kamara (12) this season. Furthermore, among those who attempted at least 25, the Udinese side had the best success rate (12 out of 29, 41%).
The two youngest foreign players with at least one goal and one assist in this league meet in this challenge: Iker Bravo (born in January 2005 - one goal and one assist) and Kenan Yildiz (born in May 2005 - two goals and two assists).