Preview: Roma vs Juventus

04 April 2025

It's fifth versus sixth in Serie A as Roma host Juventus in Sunday night's league action at the Stadio Olimpico.

Ahead of Sunday's 20:45 CEST kick-off in the capital, here's our pre-match pre-view:

There are 181 previous match-ups between Juventus and Roma in Serie A: the Bianconeri lead the head-to-heads with 86 wins, compared to 53 draws and 42 victories for the Giallorossi.
Roma and Juventus have drawn their last two league games – the last time the two teams recorded multiple consecutive draws in Serie A was between December 1983 and March 1985 (four in that case). After the 0-0 first leg in September, the two sides could draw both seasonal Serie A matches for the first time since 2000/01.
Juve have gone unbeaten in eight (4W, 4D) of their last nine matches against Roma in the league; the Giallorossi's only win in the Serie A period came on March 5, 2023 (1-0 at the Stadio Olimpico).
Roma's last goal conceded from a direct free-kick in Serie A was on August 27, 2022, scored by Dusan Vlahovic.
The most frequent scoreline between Juventus and Roma in Serie A is 1-1, the final score of 27 meetings, most recently in the return match last season.

Juventus have won six of their last eight league matches (2L), as many wins as in their previous 20 (13D, 1L). In addition, the Bianconeri have not drawn any of their last 10 Serie A matches (7W, 3L), after ending in a draw in as many as 13 of the previous 18 matches.
Roma has remained unbeaten in its last 14 Serie A matches (11W, 3D); the last time they recorded a longer streak without defeat in a single season in the league was between January and May 2016 (17 in that case, with Luciano Spalletti on the bench).
The Bianconeri are the team with the highest passing accuracy in the league, both considering the whole field (88.6%) and in the opponent's half alone (83.4%).
Only Inter and Napoli (12 both) have conceded fewer goals before halftime than Roma and Juventus (14, as has Bologna) this season.
The Giallorossi have won the most games in this league by the score of 1-0: six - in the last seven Serie A tournaments the Giallorossi have recorded more only in 2022/23 (seven).

After his goal against Genoa in the most recent match, Kenan Yildiz could score in two matches in a row for the first time in Serie A. The 19-year-old equaled Moise Kean as the player with the most goals scored (both seven) with Juventus in the top-flight before turning 20 in the three-point-per-win era (since 1994/95), the last to do better was Renato Buso, reaching 10 in 1989.
Dusan Vlahovic has been involved in 100 Serie A goals (86 goals and 14 assists): the 25-year-old is the first player born from 1998 onward to reach this milestone in the competition.
Teun Koopmeiners has been involved in three goals in his last four Serie A matches against Roma (two goals and one assist).
Pierre Kalulu scored in his last match as a starter against Roma in Serie A, on January 8, 2023 with AC Milan.
Nicolas Gonzalez (149) is close to 150 appearances in Europe's five biggest leagues: 45 with Stuttgart, 86 with Fiorentina and 18 with Juventus.

Artem Dovbyk (11 goals this season) is only the second Roma player to score more than 10 goals in his debut season in Serie A since 2000, after Tammy Abraham (17 in 2021/22).
Matias Soul's first 15 games in Serie A between 2021/22 and 2022/23 were with Juventus; the Argentine, born in 2003, is the youngest player to score at least 15 goals in the last three seasons in the competition.
Roma has won only 38.5% of matches without Alexis Saelemaekers - disqualified - in this Serie A season, a percentage that rises to 58.8% with the Belgian on the pitch.
Paulo Dybala played a total of seven seasons with Juventus between 2015/16 and 2021/22, making a total of 293 appearances and 115 goals in all competitions. The Argentine ranks 10th in the list of Juventus' top scorers on par with Roberto Baggio.
In the 2022/23 season, Leandro Paredes played 25 games and scored one goal with the Juventus shirt in Serie A.

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