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Opposition Focus | Ten things to know about Frosinone

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Opposition Focus | Ten things to know about Frosinone
Opposition Focus | Ten things to know about Frosinone
Opposition Focus | Ten things to know about Frosinone

Saturday's lunch-time kick-off sees Juventus take on another newly-promoted side, facing off against Frosinone at the Benito Stirpe Stadium at 12.30 CET. 

It's the Bianconeri's last away fixture of 2023, against a side they've never lost against, who currenty sit 13th in the Serie A standings.

Ahead of Saturday's early kick-off, here's ten things to know about this weekend's opposition.

  1. Frosinone have lost all eight Serie A matches played against teams occupying the top two positions in the standings at the start of the round, without ever finding a way to score and always conceding at least two goals per game: 23 in total, for an average of 2.9 goals conceded per match.
  2. In the last seven league games, Frosinone has never repeated the same result two games in a row (2W, 1D, 4L), recording a defeat against Lecce in their most recent tie.
  3. Frosinone has remained unbeaten in their last seven home games in the league (W5, D2); joining Juventus and Bologna as the only teams in Serie A not to suffer defeat in this period. Only Juventus (20), Bologna (19) and Milan (18) collected more points than the Canaries (17) in front of their home fans.
  4. Frosinone is, along with Napoli, one of the two teams to have hit the woodwork the most in this season (10).
  5. Only Roma and Frosinone (12) have more different goal scorers than Juventus (11) so far this campaign.
  6. Frosinone is the team that has fielded the most players born from 2000 onwards (13) in the 2023724 campaign - Juventus has used 10 instead. The average age of the players fielded by Frosinone, including the substitutes, is 24 years and 210 days, the lowest in Serie A.
  7. Matías Soulé has participated (total shots + chances created) in 72 shots this season: fewer only than Matteo Politano (73) and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (77), but at least 50 more than any other Frosinone player (Luca Mazzitelli, 22). The Argentine made his first 15 Serie A appearances for Juventus, across the 2021/22 (two games) and 2022/23 seasons (13).
  8. Last season Enzo Barrenechea played three games for Juventus in Serie A, all as a starter, and won all three, while in the 2021/22 season, Kaio Jorge played nine games, all as a substitute, with the Juventus shirt in Serie A.
  9. Anthony Oyono is the only Frosinone player used in all his side’s league matches so far this season(16). The full-back has been involved in one goal this season, an assist against Genoa at the end of November.
  10. Among the players who have scored at least one goal and provided at least one assist in Serie A, Arijon Ibrahimovic (11/12/2005) is the youngest.

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