Preview: Genoa vs Juventus

Matchday 6 sees Juventus make the short trip to Liguria as they take on Genoa at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris on Saturday evening.

Here's all your pre-match reading in one place ahead of the Bianconeri's last fixture of September:

Head-to-head

• Juventus is the team that has beaten Genoa the most times in Serie A, with 67 wins compared to the home side’s 22, with 23 matches ending in a draws. The Bianconeri are also the team that has scored the most goals against Genoa in Serie A: 226, at least 26 more than any other opponent.
• Genoa and Juventus drew both their match-ups last season (1-1 in the first leg at the Ferraris and 0-0 in the return at the Allianz Stadium), with the two sides having never recorded three draws in a row in Serie A.
• The last time Genoa were two goals up in Serie A only suffer defeat was against Juventus on 26 August 2017, in a match that ended 4-2 in favour of the Bianconeri.
• A 1-0 win in favour of Juventus is the most frequent scoreline between these two teams in Serie A, the final scoreline of 12 meetings, most recently on 22 January 2018.

Interesting Facts

• Genoa have failed to win in their last three home league matches (2D, 1L) and have not done worse in Serie A since their four draws in a row between December 2023 and January 2024.
• Juventus is the only team not to concede a goal in Europe's top five leagues 2024/25; the Bianconeri could keep their goal unbeaten in all of their first six Serie A matches of the season for the first time in their history.
• If they were not to concede a goal in the first 33 minutes of the game, Juventus would become the team with the longest unbeaten start to the season in the three points per win era in Serie A.
• Juventus is both the team that has made the most passes (2938) and the team with the best pass success rate (91%) so far this season.
• Thiago Motta's first 27 games as a player in Serie A were with Genoa in the 2008/09 season, when he also scored six goals, his best season in the competition. He also coached the club for nine games between October and December 2019.

Player Numbers

• Bremer (408) and Manuel Locatelli (390) are the two players who have made the most passes in Serie A so far this season.
• Michele Di Gregorio and Mattia Perin are two of the four goalkeepers, with Juan Musso and Elia Caprile, to have 100 per cent of shots saved so far this campaign.
• Pierre Kalulu has so far touched an average of 109 balls every 90 minutes, a record among players on the pitch for at least 180 minutes this season.
• Danilo (199) is closing in on 200 appearances in all competitions with Juventus - from 2019/20 onwards, only Adrien Rabiot (212) made more appearances for the Bianconeri.
• Between the 2011/12 and 2020/2021 seasons, Mattia Perin made 200 appearances with the Genoa shirt in Serie A, more than any other Rossoblu player in that period. In the 2021/22 season Andrea Cambiaso played 26 games and scored one goal with the Genoa shirt in Serie A.

Opposition Focus

• Excluding own goals, Genoa's last 12 goals in Serie A have been scored by 12 different players: Thorsby, Frendrup, Gudmundsson, Retegui, Ekuban, Badelj, Malinovskyi, Vítinha, Vogliacco, Junior Messias, Pinamonti and De Winter.
• Vitinha has attempted 23 dribbles so far this season, more than any other player in the league.
• Both of Andrea Pinamonti's goals against Juventus in Serie A came in home games: with Sassuolo on 23 September 2023, and with Genoa on 30 June 2020.
• Former Juventus player Koni de Winter never played for the Bianconeri in Serie A, having only played two Champions League matches between November and December 2021. He is the Genoa player who has recorded the most intercepts (19), won the most duels (34) and aerial duels (21) so far this season.
• Between 2021/22 and 2023/24, Fabio Miretti played 58 matches and scored one goal with the Juventus shirt in Serie A - among Juventus players with at least 50 league appearances over that period, he is the youngest.