📊 Form Guide

Juventus

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Juventus will be hoping to bounce back here after the 2-1 Coppa Italia loss in their previous game against Lazio.

In that match, Juventus managed 43% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Juventus was Arkadiusz Milik (83'). For their opponents, Lazio had 9 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Valentín Castellanos (12', 48') scored for Lazio.

Fewer than three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Juventus have been participants. In terms of the goal split from that period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 3 while Juventus totted up 5.

Heading into this fixture, Juventus are undefeated in their previous 4 league matches at home.

AC Milan

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Inter Milan in Serie A action, AC Milan and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, AC Milan managed 52% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for AC Milan was Fikayo Tomori (80'). Inter Milan got 11 shots at goal with 3 on target. Francesco Acerbi (18') and Marcus Thuram (49') scored for Inter Milan.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring AC Milan, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average number of goals per match during that time is 3.17, with the average number of goals for AC Milan working out to 1.67. Putting that to one side, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend will continue on here in this game.

Leading up to this clash, AC Milan:

• are undefeated by Juventus when having played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten in their last 4 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 09/05/2021 tells us that Juventus have won 1 of these & AC Milan 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

A combined total of 9 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 2 from Juve and 7 belonging to i Rossoneri. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.5.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Serie A match day 9 on 22/10/2023 and the score finished AC Milan 0-1 Juventus.

On that occasion, AC Milan managed 52% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

Juventus got 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Manuel Locatelli (63') scored.

The referee was Maurizio Mariani.

📰 Team News: Juventus

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just a single fitness concern for the Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy squad. Moise Kean (Knee problems) misses out.

It’s our opinion that Juve will probably use a 3-5-2 system in the match with Wojciech Szczesny, Federico Gatti, Gleison Bremer, Danilo, Weston McKennie, Carlos Alcaraz, Manuel Locatelli, Adrien Rabiot, Andrea Cambiaso, Dusan Vlahovic and Federico Chiesa.

🗞️ Team News: AC Milan

AC Milan boss Stefano Pioli has a number of players out of action. Luka Jović (Muscle fatigue), Pierre Kalulu (Collateral ligament injury) and Simon Kjaer (Thigh problems) are not ready for selection. Ineligible players who cannot play in this game through suspension are Fikayo Tomori, Theo Hernández and Davide Calabria.

It’s our belief that i Rossoneri could decide to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Mike Maignan, Filippo Terracciano, Matteo Gabbia, Malick Thiaw, Alessandro Florenzi, Ismael Bennacer, Tijjani Reijnders, Christian Pulisic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Rafael Leao and Olivier Giroud.

✨ Prediction

Our thinking is that AC Milan will likely be able to find the back of the net against this Juventus lineup, although it might not quite be enough to prevent defeat.

We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Juventus at the end of this one. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 15:02 27/04/2024