Juventus v Inter stat pack

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— Apr 2nd 2022

4 MIN READING

Get your fill of pre-match facts and figures before Sunday's clash in Turin

Inter make their first trip to Juventus Stadium this season on Sunday, with the Serie A Week 31 fixture kicking off at 20:45 CEST.

It will be the third time the two sides have met this term following the 1-1 draw earlier in the league campaign – with Edin Dzeko on target – and the Italian Super Cup in January, when goals by Lautaro Martinez and Alexis Sanchez clinched the trophy.

Simone Inzaghi's side boast the league's best attack (62 goals scored) and second-best defence (24 conceded), while Massimiliano Allegri's team have let in the fewest goals on home turf and have kept the most clean sheets.

FORM BOOK

Almost six months have passed since Inzaghi's team last lost on the road in Serie A: 3-1 to Lazio on 16 October 2021. The Nerazzurri have however drawn their last four away games in the league (two 0-0s and two 1-1s). The last time they drew five on the trot away from home was in December 2004, with Roberto Mancini at the helm.

Juventus are on a 16-match unbeaten run in Serie A (W11, D5) – the longest in the Italian top flight at the moment – and have won their last four league games.

GENERAL STATS

Inter are the team that have scored the most headed goals in Serie A this term (15), followed by Lazio (11) and Juventus (10).

Sunday's meeting will be a battle of two defences: Juventus boast the best defensive record at home (nine in 15 games at Allianz Stadium) while no side has conceded fewer on the road than Inter (11, the same as Napoli).

Inter are among the teams that have scored the most goals in the last half an hour of matches – 22, the same as Atalanta, Lazio and Verona – and have also earned the most points from losing positions.

Inter's last ten goals against Juventus in the league have all been scored by different players (including own goals).

PREVIOUS MATCH-UPS

Sunday will be the 178th league meeting between these two sides, with the Nerazzurri winning 47 of the previous encounters (D45, L85).

Following the 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture, Juventus and Inter could draw both league fixtures in the same season for just the fourth time in history, after 2001/02, 1994/95 and 1988/89.

In the wake of the recent Super Cup success, Simone Inzaghi's men could make it back-to-back victories against the Bianconeri in all competitions for the first time since September 2016.

AWAY TO JUVENTUS

Inter have beaten Juventus on their own patch 15 times in total. A quick glance down the names of the scorers reveals the likes of Ermanno Aebi, Giuseppe Meazza, Amedeo Amadei, Istvan Nyers, Luis Suarez, Sandro Mazzola, Ruben Sosa, Julio Cruz, Diego Milito...

PLAYERS

Since his debut campaign in Serie A (2014/15), Marcelo Brozovic is the midfielder with the most touches (17,902), the most successful passes (12,685), the most successful passes in the opposition half (7,377), and the third most tackles (489).

Nicolo Barella has got nine assists to his name this year – only Sassuolo's Domenico Berardi (11) has more. Only two Inter midfielders have reached double figures for assists in a single campaign since Serie A reverted to a 20-team league in 2004/05: Dejan Stankovic (10 in 2006/07) and Antonio Candreva (10 in 2016/17).

Denzel Dumfries is one of just four defenders to have both scored and assisted at least four goals this season in the top five European leagues. The others are Theo Hernandez, Reece James and Jonathan Clauss.

The first of Edin Dzeko's 97 Serie A goals was against Juventus (on 30/8/15 for Roma) while his goal in the reverse fixture was his third versus the Bianconeri. The Bosnian has lost six times to Juventus – against no team has he lost more times in Serie A.

Lautaro Martinez has found the net against Juventus in three different competitions (Serie A, Coppa Italia and Italian Super Cup), although all of those came at the Meazza. The Argentine is the striker who has been subbed off most times this term (19 times from 21 starts).

Felipe Caicedo has scored against Juventus twice in the league under Simone Inzaghi's stewardship at Lazio – both times in the 95th minute (7/12/2019 and 8/11/2020). Since 2004/05 (when Opta first began collecting these stats), no player has scored more stoppage-time goals against Juventus (Sergio Pellissier and Juanito Gómez have also done it twice).

Ivan Perisic could become the third Croatian player to reach the 200-match milestone in Serie A after Marcelo Brozovic (224 appearances) and Milan Badelj (210). The Nerazzurri winger has faced the Bianconeri ten times in the league but only won once (D4, L5).

Samir Handanovic's next league game will be his 359th for Inter, putting him in seventh place – ahead of Tarcisio Burgnich (358) – in the list of all-time Serie A appearance-makers.