27 January 2024
Matchday 22 is upon us, with the Bianconeri seeing out the first month of 2024 with a home fixture against Empoli.
The Bianconeri earned a 2-0 victory over the Azzurri earlier this season thanks to goals from Danilo and Federico Chiesa, and are confident of keeping up their favourable home record against the Tuscan side on Saturday evening.
Sharpen your knowledge ahead of Juve's next league clash with our weekly matchday quiz.
The answers are at the bottom of the page. Good luck!
QUESTIONS
- How many of the 14 home matches against Empoli have the Bianconeri won? 10, 11 or 12?
- Juventus lead the way in Europe in terms of goals scored by central defenders … how many goals have been scored so far this season by our defenders?
- Dusan has scored back-to-back league braces, against Sassuolo and Lecce. Against who did he score his first brace for Juventus?
- Empoli is which Bianconeri midfielder’s favourite victim (two goals and two assists)?
- Which two current first team players have turned out for Empoli in the past?
MORE FACTS
FREE-SCORERS | Juventus scored 18 goals in the first five matches of 2024; since 1929/30, only once have the Bianconeri scored more goals in the first five matches of a calendar year in all competitions: 22 in 1932 (under the guidance of Carlo Carcano).
UNBEATEN RUN | Juventus are unbeaten in 16 league games (W13, D3) and could record their longest streak of consecutive games without defeat in Serie A for the first time since Massimiliano Allegri's return to the bench.
TOP STRIKERS | Dusan Vlahovic has scored five league goals in 2024; in the history of Juventus, only seven players have scored more goals in the month of January in Serie A: Cristiano Ronaldo (7, in 2020); Filippo Inzaghi (6, 2001); Omar Sivori (6, 1963); Giampiero Boniperti (6, 1951); Guglielmo Gabetto (6, 1941); Felice Borel (6, 1937) and Raimundo Orsi (6, 1932).
THREE’S A CHARM | Federico Chiesa scored in the last two championship matches against Empoli. The Tuscan team could become the first team against which the Bianconero scores in three consecutive matches in Serie A.
ANSWERS
- 12
- 7
- Empoli, in February 2022
- Adrien Rabiot
- Andrea Cambiaso and Daniele Rugani
