Preview: Juventus vs Roma

After back-to-back 3-0 victories to kick-start the 2024/25 campaign, Juventus will look to head into the international break with a perfect record as they prepare to host capital club Roma at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday evening.

Sharpen your pre-match knowledge with our Matchday 3 preview below:

Head-to-head

• Only against Inter have Juventus played more matches (182) and earned more victories (87) than against Roma in Serie A: 180 matches have been played against the Giallorossi to date, with a tally of 86 wins, 42 defeats and 52 draws.
• Juventus and Roma drew their last league meeting, 1-1 last May at the Stadio Olimpico (goals from Romelu Lukaku for the Giallorossi and Bremer for the Bianconeri); the two sides have not drawn two Serie A matches in a row since March 2006/September 2007.
• Juventus have kept a clean sheet 61 times against Roma in Serie A, and only against Inter (64), Fiorentina and Torino (62 vs both) have they done better in the competition.
• The last time Juventus were two goals down and still managed to win in Serie A was on 9 January 2022 against Roma, in a match that ended 4-3 for Juve.

Interesting Facts

• The most frequent scoreline between Juventus and Roma in Serie A is 1-1, the scoreline of 27 previous encounters, the most recent of which was in the return match last season.
• From the 2011/12 season onwards, Juventus have won 11 of their 13 home matches (1D, 1L) against Roma in Serie A. Over this period, against no other team did the Bianconeri earn more home victories in the Italian top-flight (11 also against Udinese and Fiorentina).
• The Bianconeri have scored in all of their last 21 Serie A home games against Roma, with a betetr streak only against three other teams in Serie A: Bari (27), Parma (26) and Cagliari (24).
• Juve could win all of their first three Serie A matches of the season for the first time since 2018/19; in addition, only three times in their history in the tournament have the Bianconeri won their first three without conceding a goal: in 2014/15, 2004/05 and 1986/87.
• Thiago Motta has won two of his six previous matches against Roma in Serie A, with one draw and three defeats completing the tally.

Player Numbers

• Dusan Vlahovic is the player who has scored more than one goal a match the most times in Serie A over the last six seasons (as of 2019/20): 18, ahead of Lautaro Martinez's 17 and Ciro Immobile's 16.
• Since his arrival in Italy in 2021, Teun Koopmeiners has scored 26 goals in Serie A, more than any other midfielder. Since his first season in Italy, no player has scored more goals from outside the box than the Dutchman in the Italian top-flight: nine (equalling Paulo Dybala, Ruslan Malinovskyi and Dusan Vlahovic).
• In last season’s Portuguese top-flight, Francisco Conceicao set his own goal-scoring record in a single top-flight season with five goals, while also contributing his personal-best four assists.
• In the previous three seasons (from 2021/22 to 2023/24), Nicolás González was the Fiorentina player to score the most goals in Serie A: 25, at least eight more than any other Viola player in that period.
• Gleison Bremer, whose last Serie A goal came against Roma, is the player who has made the most passes so far in Serie A 2024/25 (170).

Opposition Focus

• Among the players who started this new season, Paulo Dybala tops the charts in terms of most goals scored in the Italian top-flight: 123 scored with three different shirts (Palermo, Juventus, Roma) in 326 appearances.
• Bryan Cristante has previously scored against the Bianconeri in Serie A, in the 2-2 draw between Atalanta and Juventus in October 2017. From 2019/20 onwards he has amassed 169 appearances with Roma in the Serie A, only Gianluca Mancini (171) has more over that period.
• Gianluca Mancini's first sending-off (out of three received) in Serie A was against Juventus, on 14 March 2018 in an Atalanta shirt. Against the Bianconeri he has also already found the net, on 5 March 2023 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
• Lorenzo Pellegrini, who scored against Juventus in the 3-4 defeat in January 2022, is second on the list of goals scored by Italian midfielders in Serie A from 2015/16 onwards: less only than Antonio Candreva (47) and on a par with Giacomo Bonaventura (43).
• Daniele De Rossi drew his only Serie A match as a coach against Juventus: 1-1 last season.