Preview: Juventus vs Bologna

Juventus are back on home turf this weekend as they play host to Bologna at the Allianz Stadium on Saturday evening.

Your build-up to the 18:00 CET kick-off starts here:

Head-to-head

• Juventus is the team that has won the most Serie A matches against Bologna: an impressive 79 Bianconeri victories, with 52 draws and 23 Rossoblu wins completing the tally.
• Juventus and Bologna have drawn their last three league matches, as many draws as in the previous 20 matches between these two teams.
• Juve have remained unbeaten in their last 24 Serie A matches against Bologna (17W, 7D), their longest unbeaten streak in the competition.
• The Bianconeri have scored at least one goal in all their last 16 Serie A matches against Bologna (35 goals, 2.2 average per game), already a record streak for the Bianconeri against the Rossoblu in the competition.
• Juventus are the team against whom Bologna have both drawn (27) and lost (45) the most away games in Serie A, with just five Rossoblu wins.

Interesting Facts

• Juventus have kept a clean sheet in 10 of their 14 matches this season. The Bianconeri have never recorded 11 clean sheets in the first 15 matches of the season in their history.
• The Bianconeri have made the most passes (8034) in this league and have the highest pass success rate (90%) of all teams in Serie A.
• Juventus (1699) are one win away from 1700 victories in Serie A.
• Juve is the team that has maintained the highest ball possession of any team in the league (61%), with Bologna in third place (58%).
• Juventus have conceded only 115 shots in the league, fewer than any other team.

Player Numbers

• Dusan Vlahovic has scored six goals against Bologna in Serie A and only against Cagliari has he done better in the competition (seven goals).
• The two youngest Italian defenders among those who have scored at least two goals this season play for Juventus: Andrea Cambiaso (born February 2000) and Nicolo Savona (born in March 2003).
• Andrea Cambiaso previously played for the Rossoblu, having played 32 Serie A matches with Bologna in the 2022/23 season.
• Manuel Locatelli (149) is a match away from 150 appearances in all competitions with Juventus while Timothy Weah (49) is closing in on 50 appearances with Juventus across all competitions.
• Michele Di Gregorio has kept his goal unbeaten in 70% of the matches played in the league, a record percentage among goalkeepers with at least five appearances.

Opposition Focus

• Santiago Castro has scored five goals and provided five assists considering all competitions and among Serie A players, only three others have already reached this quota of goals and assists: Ademola Lookman, Christian Pulisic and Romelu Lukaku. Among these, Castro is the youngest, a full six years younger than the second.
• Riccardo Orsolini, with six league goals so far, has become the first player to score more than five goals in each of the last seven Serie A seasons. Among Italian players currently in Serie A, he is the one who has been involved in the most goals during this period (80: 56 goals and 24 assists).
• Since the start of last season, Bologna have won 53% of the matches in which Lewis Ferguson has taken the field (17/32), while the percentage drops to 31.6% in the matches in which he has not played (6/19).
• Currently at 149 appearances in Serie A, Charalampos Lykogiannis is one step away from the 150-match mark in the Italian top-flight.
• Samuel Iling-Junior was a former Juventus player, having featured in 36 Serie A matches with the black and white shirt between 2022/23 and 2023/24.