Juventus are again at dwelling for Matchday 23 of this season’s Serie A, taking over Empoli in a lunch-time kick-off at Allianz Stadium.
Sharpen your information forward of Sunday’s encounter with our pre-match preview:
Head-to-head
Juventus have drawn their final two Serie A matches in opposition to Empoli, however have by no means didn’t win three video games in opposition to them in a row. Solely within the 1998/99 season did they fail to win neither the primary nor return leg in opposition to the Tuscans.
Empoli have solely averted defeat in seven of the final 24 conferences in opposition to Juventus in Serie A (3W, 4D), 5 of which got here within the return leg.
The Bianconeri have gained 80% of their dwelling matches in opposition to Empoli in Serie A (12V, 2D, 1L): amongst their present opponents within the competitors, solely in opposition to Hellas Verona (85%) do the Previous Woman have the next dwelling success fee.
Empoli have misplaced 22 Serie A matches in opposition to Juventus – in opposition to solely Roma (23) and Inter (27) have they got extra defeats within the top-flight.
In 15 away matches in opposition to Juventus in Serie A, Empoli have solely as soon as managed to attain multiple aim, within the 5-2 defeat on 21 December 1997; general they haven’t discovered a method to aim in 10 of these away matches.
Attention-grabbing Information
Juventus have remained unbeaten of their final 11 Serie A matches performed at 12.30pm, profitable seven instances and drawing 4, together with two in the latest two (0-0 in opposition to Genoa and 1-1 in opposition to Cagliari).
Empoli then again have gained solely certainly one of their final 14 Serie A matches performed on Sunday at 12:30pm (4D, 9L) – 1-0 in opposition to Napoli on 12 November 2023 – and in no fewer than 10 of those they’ve failed to attain.
Juventus’ common sequence length in Serie A this season is 15.2 seconds, the very best within the competitors – then again, Empoli are final on this classification with 7.0 seconds.
Empoli are the one staff to not have gained within the final seven matchdays of Serie A (2D, 5L) and are the staff that has picked up the fewest factors in that interval general, two, at a mean of 0.3 per match.
Juventus have scored with 14 completely different gamers on this league, solely Inter (16) have extra – then again, no staff has fewer goalscorers than Empoli (5, like Lecce).
After his aim in opposition to Napoli, Randal Kolo Muani can develop into the second participant to attain in his first two Serie A appearances with Juventus within the three-points-per-win period, after Carlos Tevez in August 2013.
Timothy Weah is the third American participant to attain no less than 5 targets in a Serie A season, after Christian Pulisic (12 in 2023/24 and 6 in 2024/25) and Weston McKennie (5 in 2020/21).
Nicolas Gonzalez (34 targets and 15 assists) is near being concerned in 50 targets in Europe’s prime 5 leagues.
Juventus is, together with Hellas Verona, one of many two groups with extra defenders born from 2000 onwards to have performed no less than 400 minutes this season: Nicolo Savona (1215), Juan Cabal (461), Pierre Kalulu (1617) and Andrea Cambiaso (1503).
Solely Romeo Lavia is youthful (2004, 10 matches) than Renato Veiga (2003, seven matches) amongst Chelsea gamers who performed greater than 5 matches within the 2024/25 Premier League.
Opposition Focus
Sebastiano Esposito has scored six targets within the eight matches he has performed because the starting of December and is the highest-scoring participant within the Italian top-flight throughout this era.
Lorenzo Colombo scored 5 targets this season, his joint-highest tally alongside the 5 targets in 33 matches he scored for Lecce within the 2022/23 marketing campaign. The Empoli striker has scored 11 of his 14 targets in Serie A away from dwelling.
Emmanuel Gyasi is on 15 targets in Serie A and is near equalling Kevin-Prince Boateng (16) in second place among the many prime Ghanaian scorers in Serie A. The Empoli participant scored in opposition to Juventus on 22 September 2021, with Spezia, on the Picco.
Mattia De Sciglio performed 82 video games with Juventus in Serie A between 2017 and final March, scoring his first aim for the Bianconeri within the event in his 112th match (on 26/11/2017, in opposition to Crotone).
Among the many gamers who’ve made greater than 10 appearances with a single staff during the last three Serie A seasons, Jacopo Fazzini, born on 16 March 2003, is the second youngest, after Diego Coppola (28/12/2003) of Hellas Verona.