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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 UEFA Champions League
W Benevento 2-4 Juventus 7 Apr, 2018 Italian Serie A
L Juventus 0-3 Real Madrid 3 Apr, 2018 UEFA 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:

March 17, 2024
Atalanta 19:00 Fiorentina
May 6, 2024
Salernitana 17:00 Atalanta
Udinese 19:45 SSC Napoli
May 10, 2024
Frosinone 19:45 Inter Milan
May 11, 2024
SSC Napoli 17:00 Bologna
AC Milan 19:45 Cagliari
May 12, 2024
Lazio 11:30 Empoli
Genoa 14:00 Sassuolo
Verona 14:00 Torino
Juventus 17:00 Salernitana
Atalanta 19:45 Roma
May 13, 2024
Lecce 17:30 Udinese
Fiorentina 19:45 Monza

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Inter Milan 35 28 5 2 81 19 +62 89
2 AC Milan 35 21 8 6 67 42 +25 71
3 Juventus 35 18 12 5 48 27 +21 66
4 Bologna 35 17 13 5 49 27 +22 64
5 Roma 35 17 9 9 62 42 +20 60
6 Atalanta 33 17 6 10 61 37 +24 57
7 Lazio 35 17 5 13 45 37 +8 56
8 Fiorentina 34 14 8 12 51 39 +12 50
9 SSC Napoli 34 13 11 10 52 43 +9 50
10 Torino 35 11 14 10 31 31 +0 47
11 Monza 35 11 12 12 38 46 -8 45
12 Genoa 35 10 13 12 41 43 -2 43
13 Lecce 35 8 13 14 32 50 -18 37
14 Verona 35 8 10 17 33 46 -13 34
15 Cagliari 35 7 12 16 37 60 -23 33
16 Frosinone 35 7 11 17 43 63 -20 32
17 Empoli 35 8 8 19 26 50 -24 32
18 Udinese 34 4 17 13 32 51 -19 29
19 Sassuolo 35 7 8 20 41 70 -29 29
20 Salernitana 34 2 9 23 26 73 -47 15

Serie A Results

May 5, 2024
Roma 1 - 1 Juventus
AC Milan 3 - 3 Genoa
Verona 2 - 1 Fiorentina
Empoli 0 - 0 Frosinone
Cagliari 1 - 1 Lecce
May 4, 2024
Sassuolo 1 - 0 Inter Milan
Monza 2 - 2 Lazio
May 3, 2024
Torino 0 - 0 Bologna
April 29, 2024
Genoa 3 - 0 Cagliari
April 28, 2024
Fiorentina 5 - 1 Sassuolo
SSC Napoli 2 - 2 Roma
Atalanta 2 - 0 Empoli
Bologna 1 - 1 Udinese
Inter Milan 2 - 0 Torino
April 27, 2024
Lazio 1 - 0 Verona
Juventus 0 - 0 AC Milan
Lecce 1 - 1 Monza
April 26, 2024
Frosinone 3 - 0 Salernitana
April 25, 2024
Udinese 1 - 2 Roma

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