Preview: Lecce vs Juventus

The Juventus Men's First Team are in away action again this weekend, travelling a long way south to take on Lecce at the Via del Mare Stadium on Sunday evening.

Here’s all your pre-match reading ahead of the 20:45 CET kick-off:

Head-to-head

• Juventus have won 24 Serie A matches against Lecce, and only Inter (29) have beaten them more in the Italian top flight.
• Lecce have lost their last five Serie A fixtures against Juventus by an aggregate score of 11-1, but they have never lost six straight Serie A games against them.
• The Bianconeri have kept back-to-back clean sheets against Lecce, never managing three consecutive games without conceding against them.
• Lecce have one goal in their last five matches against Juventus in Serie A - dating back to 2020 - and have only managed fewer against Spezia (no goals in just two matches).
• The most frequent scoreline in this fixture is a 1-0 win for Juventus, which has happened seven times to date, most recently in the first meeting of the two sides last season through Arkadiusz Milik's goal.

Interesting Facts

• Juventus have 11 clean sheets across all competitions this season, with nobody in Europe's top-five leagues managing better (Inter and Bayern Munich also have 11). They could keep 12 clean sheets in their first 19 games of a season for the first time since 2014/15, then getting 12.
• Juventus have hit the woodwork seven times in Serie A this season, fewer than only Cagliari and Roma (nine each).
• No Serie A side has made more passes than Juventus' 7446 this season, and they also have the highest pass completion rate at 90%.
• No Italian team has conceded fewer chances to opponents than Juventus this season (105), with only Bayern Munich (56) and Manchester City (95) managing better across Europe's top-five leagues.
• With 1699 wins to their name, Juventus are just one away from 1700. They have more Serie A wins than any other club, 118 more than Inter.

Player Numbers

• Kenan Yildiz and Andrea Cambiaso are the two players to have played in each of the first 13 league games this season for Juventus. As well, Yildiz is the forward born in 2005 with the most appearances in Europe's top leagues this season.
• Nicolo Fagioli scored his first (of three total) Serie A goal away at Lecce on 29 October, 2022.
• Teun Koopmeiners has had 16 shots this season. Among the midfielders yet to score, only Adrian Bernabe (19) and Lorenzo Pellegrini (22) have attempted more.
• No midfielder has completed more passes than Manuel Locatelli's 760 in the league this season.
• Of players with at least 270 minutes under their belt this season, three of the four with the most balls recovered per 90 minutes play for Juventus: Danilo (90), Gleison Bremer (97) and Pierre Kalulu (94).
• Of the goalkeepers with at least three games in Europe's top leagues this season, only Mattia Perin has a 100% save percentage.

Opposition Focus

• Only against Torino (five goals and one assist), has Ante Rebic had a hand in more Serie A goals than against Juventus (four goals and one assist).
• Nikola Krstovic is the player to have had the most chances in Serie A this season (52), behind only Kylian Mbappe (57) and Erling Haaland (62) in Europe's top leagues.
• Santiago Pierotti's Serie A debut came against Juventus on 21 January of this year.
• Ylber Ramadani is along with Matteo Ruggeri as one of the two outfield players with the most balls recovered in Serie A this season (73).