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Juventus vs Napoli

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Allianz Stadium

Date: 22nd April 2018

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT

This is the biggest game of the weekend and perhaps of the season in the Italian Serie A as Juventus look to get their seventh straight Scudetto title, while Napoli try to interrupt their dominance of the Italian league.

A win for Napoli would throw the title race open again with a tough run-in, while a Juve win would help take Max Allegri closer to his fourth league title in four seasons with Juventus.

Juve’s 1-1 draw with Crotone in their last league game was a setback that has now cut the points gap between them and their visitors to just four points.

However, the Old Ladies have not lost a home game since 2015 and that makes Napoli’s task that much more difficult.

Napoli on their part however, have yet to lose an away game in 18 months and they have won 12 and drawn 4 of their trips this season, making Juventus’ job a hard one.

These two sides have some extremely solid defence heading into this game.

Napoli have conceded just once on their visits to teams in the top seven this season, and they have conceded just 0.5 goals per away game, keeping a clean sheet on 62% of their travels.

Juventus have conceded only five times at home this season, with Milan the only visitors to score a goal against Juve in their last 9 home league games.

Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions

Juventus

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
W Juventus 3-0 Sampdoria 15 Apr, 2018 Italian Serie A
W Real Madrid 3-1 Juventus 11 Apr, 2018 Champions League
W Benevento 2-4 Juventus 7 Apr, 2018 Italian Serie A
L Juventus 0-3 Real Madrid 3 Apr, 2018 Champions League
W Juventus 3-1 AC Milan 31 Mar, 2018 Italian Serie A

Napoli

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
D AC Milan 0-0 Napoli 15 Apr, 2018 Italian Serie A
W Napoli 2-1 Chievo Verona 8 Apr, 2018 Italian Serie A
D Sassuolo 1-1 Napoli 31 Mar, 2018 Italian Serie A
W Napoli 1-0 Genoa 18 Mar, 2018 Italian Serie A
D Internazionale 0-0 Napoli 11 Mar, 2018 Italian Serie A

H2H

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
Napoli 0-1 Juventus 1 Dec, 2017 Italian Serie A
Napoli 3-2 Juventus 5 Apr, 2017 Italian Coppa Italia
Napoli 1-1 Juventus 2 Apr, 2017 Italian Serie A
Juventus 3-1 Napoli 28 Feb, 2017 Italian Coppa Italia
Juventus 2-1 Napoli 29 Oct, 2016 Italian Serie A


Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

October 26, 2024
Bologna 16:00 AC Milan
December 1, 2024
Fiorentina 18:00 Inter Milan
December 23, 2024
Fiorentina 18:30 Udinese
Inter Milan 20:45 Como
December 28, 2024
Empoli 15:00 Genoa
Parma 15:00 Monza
Cagliari 18:00 Inter Milan
Lazio 20:45 Atalanta
December 29, 2024
Udinese 12:30 Torino
SSC Napoli 15:00 Venezia
Juventus 18:00 Fiorentina
AC Milan 20:45 Roma
December 30, 2024
Como 18:30 Lecce
Bologna 20:45 Verona
January 4, 2025
Venezia 15:00 Empoli
Fiorentina 18:00 SSC Napoli
Verona 20:45 Udinese

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Atalanta 17 13 1 3 42 19 +23 40
2 SSC Napoli 17 12 2 3 26 12 +14 38
3 Inter Milan 15 10 4 1 40 15 +25 34
4 Lazio 17 11 1 5 32 24 +8 34
5 Fiorentina 15 9 4 2 28 11 +17 31
6 Juventus 17 7 10 0 28 13 +15 31
7 Bologna 16 7 7 2 23 18 +5 28
8 AC Milan 16 7 5 4 25 16 +9 26
9 Udinese 16 6 2 8 19 25 -6 20
10 Roma 17 5 4 8 23 23 +0 19
11 Empoli 17 4 7 6 16 19 -3 19
12 Torino 17 5 4 8 17 22 -5 19
13 Genoa 17 3 7 7 14 26 -12 16
14 Lecce 17 4 4 9 11 29 -18 16
15 Como 16 3 6 7 18 28 -10 15
16 Parma 17 3 6 8 23 33 -10 15
17 Verona 17 5 0 12 21 40 -19 15
18 Cagliari 17 3 5 9 16 28 -12 14
19 Venezia 17 3 4 10 17 30 -13 13
20 Monza 17 1 7 9 15 23 -8 10

Serie A Results

December 22, 2024
Monza 1 - 2 Juventus
Atalanta 3 - 2 Empoli
Venezia 2 - 1 Cagliari
Roma 5 - 0 Parma
December 21, 2024
Lecce 1 - 2 Lazio
Genoa 1 - 2 SSC Napoli
Torino 0 - 2 Bologna
December 20, 2024
Verona 0 - 1 AC Milan
December 16, 2024
Lazio 0 - 6 Inter Milan
December 15, 2024
AC Milan 0 - 0 Genoa
Como 2 - 0 Roma
Parma 2 - 3 Verona
Bologna 1 - 0 Fiorentina
Lecce 2 - 1 Monza
December 14, 2024
Juventus 2 - 2 Venezia
Udinese 1 - 3 SSC Napoli
Cagliari 0 - 1 Atalanta
December 13, 2024
Empoli 0 - 1 Torino
December 9, 2024
Monza 1 - 2 Udinese

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