Pre-view: Verona vs Juventus

Juventus' first away trip of the new 2024/25 Serie A season sees them travel to Veneto to take on Hellas Verona for a Matchday 2 clash on Monday, 26 August. Kick-off is at 20:45 CEST.

The Gialloblu will be tricky opponents for the Bianconeri's first away day, which is a lesson that Napoli learned on Matchday 1, falling to a shock 3-0 loss at the Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Stadium.

Ready yourself for the Bianconeri’s first official away game of the campaign with all you need to know ahead of Monday’s trip across Northern Italy.

Head-to-head

• Only Inter (40) have beaten Verona more times in Serie A than Juventus (37). The Bianconeri have drawn 17 times against the Mastini and lost just 12.
• Juventus have scored 111 Serie A goals against Verona and, again, only Inter have hit them for - slightly - more (112).
• The Bianconeri have won four of their last five league games against Verona, drawing the other. In those matches, Juventus have kept four clean sheets.
• Juventus have scored in each of their last 22 Serie A matches against Verona, only managing a longer run (23) against Catania.

Interesting Facts

• This is just the sixth time that Juventus have played back-to-back matches on a Monday. On the previous five occasions, the Bianconeri have remained unbeaten (three wins, two draws) and kept a clean sheet in the four most recent such cases.
• Juventus are the only team in Italy - and joined by only Lille in Europe's top-five leagues - to have not conceded a single shot on target in their opening game of the new season.
• The Bianconeri enjoyed the highest pass-completion rate on Serie A Matchday 1 - 92%, while Verona's 67% has them 19th and above only Udinese (66%).
• Juventus and Lazio were the only two teams to hit the woodwork twice on Matchday 1.
• No side other than Juventus managed to have three different goalscorers on the opening weekend of the 2024/25 season.

Player Numbers

• Dusan Vlahovic's 10 Serie A goals in 2024 make him the highest-scoring player in Italy's top flight this calendar year, and his goals also made him the player to have earned his side the most points last season (14 of Juventus' points total came thanks to his 16 goals).
• Vlahovic has scored four times against Verona in Serie A, but never more than one in a game. Two of those goals have come at the Bentegodi.
• Kenan Yildiz has been involved in two goals in his last three Serie A apperances (one goal, two assists), which is one more than he had managed in his previous 25 appearances.
• Michele Di Gregorio is the goalkeeper who prevented the most goals (12.29) in the top five European leagues last season, with 35 goals conceded against an Expected Goals conceded value of 47.29. On the opening weekend of this campaign, though, he didn't have a single shot to save.
• Nobody in Serie A made more passes than Gleison Bremer's 90 on Matchday 1.
• Among the defenders born in the 2000s, only Andrea Cambiaso has hit double figures for Serie A assists (10).

Opposition Focus

• All of Verona's 12 Serie A wins over Juventus have come at home, and they haven't beaten any side more times there than Juventus - also 12 home wins against Napoli.
• Hellas won their opening Serie A match for the second straight season for just the second time in their history, also doing so in 1983/84 and 1984/85. They have never won each of their first two games in back-to-back seasons.
• Between this season and last, Verona are unbeaten in three Serie A matches - last managing four games without defeat in April 2023.
• Before Daniel Mosquera, the last player to debut with a brace for Verona was Luca Toni against AC Milan on August 24, 2013.
• The last player to score in each of his first two Verona appearances was Thomas Henry in August 2022 - both Mosquera and Dailon Livramento scored on their debuts against Napoli.
• Darko Lazovic provided two assists against Napoli, which levelled his tally for the entire 2023/24 Serie A season.