Preview: Juventus vs Lecce

Juventus are back at the Allianz Stadium this weekend, taking on 17th-placed Lecce in matchday 32 of this season's Serie A campaign.

Ahead of Saturday's 20:45 CEST kick-off, sharpen your knowledge with these pre-match curiosities:

Head-to-head

• Juventus has lost only four of the 37 matches (24W, 9D) played against Lecce in Serie A.
• Lecce has failed to score in 18 of the 37 matches played against Juventus in Serie A; only against Inter Milan have the Salentini failed to find the back of the net in more games (21).
• The Bianconeri have lost only one of the 18 home matches (13W, 4D) they have played against Lecce in Serie A, which dates back to April 25, 2004, with Marcello Lippi on the bench.
• Lecce has not won any of the four matches played in Serie A against Juventus at Allianz Stadium, earning one draw and suffering three defeats.
• The team with the highest shooting accuracy percentage (Juventus with 52 percent) and the team with the lowest percentage (Lecce with 35 percent) in Serie A this season face off against each other in this encounter.

Interesting Facts

• Lecce are without victory in eight matches (3D, 5L) in Serie A - the Salentini's last win (3-1) in the competition was in January against Parma.
• Juventus has won five of the last six (1D) Serie A matches played at Allianz Stadium, keeping a clean sheet in four of the. Since the beginning of 2025), no team in Serie A has kept more home clean sheets than the Bianconeri (four also for Fiorentina and Genoa).
• Only three of the 26 points collected by Lecce this campaign have come against teams in the top half of the standings: one against Torino, one against Juventus in the first leg and one against Bologna.
• Juventus is the team that has scored the most goals (nine) as a result of a counter-attack this season; on the other hand, Lecce has conceded only one goal from this game situation (like Fiorentina): more only than Torino, who haven’t conceded any from this game situation.
• Lecce is the team with the fewest scorers in the current five major European leagues: only six, nine fewer than Juventus (15).

Player Numbers

• Manuel Locatelli has scored all of his last four goals in the league away from home (three of them from distance), including the one in the last round against Roma. The Bianconero is the midfielder with the most successful passes in Serie A 2024/25 (1705 out of 1919, 89%) as well as the third player with the most 'Line Breaking Passes' (410 - passes that cut through at least one opponent's line of pressure) in the current top five European leagues, behind Joshua Kimmich (445) and Granit Xhaka (468).
• Next will be Dusan Vlahovic's 100th game with Juventus in Serie A. The Serbian has scored 42 goals in 99 appearances with the Old Lady: since the beginning of February 2022 (when he made his debut in the Bianconeri), only Lautaro Martinez has scored more goals for a single club (66, but in 114 matches), among the players currently playing in the Italian top-flight.
• After his goal against Genoa, Kenan Yildiz could score in two domestic home matches in a row for the second time with Juventus in all competitions, following back-to-back goals in the Coppa Italia last year (against Salernitana and Frosinone).
• Andrea Cambiaso's last Serie A goal was scored against Lecce earlier this season. All of the Juventus defender's five goals have come in the last half-hour of the game, three of them at Allianz Stadium.
• Pierre Kalulu is the player who has covered the greatest distance with ball-and-foot movement in Serie A 2024/25: 6 kilometers and 400 meters.

Opposition Focus

• Nikola Krstovic has taken part in 59% of Lecce's goals this season: 13 appearances (10 goals, three assists) out of the Giallorossi's 22 total goals: a record in percentage terms in Serie A this year.
• Next will be the 100th win in the top five European leagues for Ante Rebic. Thirty percent of the goals scored by the Croatian striker in Serie A (9/30) have come against the two Piedmontese teams: five against Torino (his favourite victim) and four against Juventus, which remains the team against which the Croatian scored his last goal in the tournament, in the first leg earlier this campaign (and also his only goal with the Salentini in Serie A).
• Federico Baschirotto, who scored in the last match against Venezia, is only one of four outfield players to have played all 2790 minutes so far this season (along with Di Lorenzo, Ndicka and Luperto).
• Only Nicolo Cambiaghi is younger than Thorir Helgason among players who have provided at least three assists in 2025 in Serie A (three for both).
• Hamza Rafia played one match with Juventus' first team considering all competitions: in the Coppa Italia on January 13, 2021, scoring a goal against Genoa. His next game will be his 50th match with Lecce across all competitions.