Preview: Lazio vs Juventus

Juventus FC

·8. Mai 2025

A big match-up awaits in Rome as Juventus take on fellow Champions League-chasing Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday evening.

Get your pre-match knowledge up to scratch with these stats and facts:

Juventus is the team that has beaten Lazio the most times in Serie A: 87 victories, with 36 Biancocelesti wins and 38 matches drawn completing the head-to-head record.
For the first time in Serie A, there are three teams with the same number of points (and at least 60 points in total) as we approach Matchday 36: Juventus, Roma and Lazio. Lazio and Juventus will face each other sitting on equal points in both matches of the season for the first time in the Italian top-flight.
The most frequent scoreline between Lazio and Juventus in Serie A is 1-1, the result of 18 previous meetings, the most recent dating back to November 2020, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Felipe Caicedo on target.
Juventus are the team against whom Lazio have lost the most home games in Serie A, with a record of 34 Bianconeri wins, 19 draws and 27 Biancocelesti victories.
In Serie A, Lazio have won two home games in a row against Juventus for the first time since 2001 and have not earned three consecutive home wins against the Bianconeri in the competition since the period between October 1953 and May 1956.

The first and third teams in terms of highest percentage of shots on goal this season meet in this clash: Juventus (51.5%) and Lazio (50.4%) - between them is Fiorentina with 51.2%.
Lazio have not repeated the same result in their last 10 Serie A games (4W, 5D, 1L). This season, the Biancocelesti have already once gone 11 consecutive games without repeating the same result twice in a row, between November and February (5W, 2D, 4L).
Juventus are the team that has scored the most goals on the counter-attack this season (10); the last Serie A season in which the Bianconeri scored as many goals on the counter was in 2007/08 (10).
Lazio have drawn their last five home games in Serie A, for what is the longest current streak of consecutive home draws in the competition; the Biancocelesti have not drawn six home matches in a row in the competition since 1991.
In the six league matches since Igor Tudor arrived (3W, 2D, 1L), Juventus have not repeated the same result twice in a row.

Nicolas Gonzalez scored five of his 12 total goals last season from April onwards; in more detail, since playing in Serie A, 48% of his goals have come in April, May and June (13 out of 27): May, in particular, is the month in which he scored the most in the top-flight (six goals).
Khephren Thuram has scored four goals and provided five assists this league season, both personal bests between Serie A and Ligue 1 (four goals also in 2021/22 with Nice). Should he reach five goals, he would be the first Juventus midfielder with at least five goals and five assists since Miralem Pjanic in 2017/18 (5G, 8A).
Next will be Dusan Vlahovic's 200th Serie A game. The Serbian has scored nine goals in 26 games this season and could become the second player to go into double figures in goals in each of the last five Serie A seasons after Lautaro Martinez.
Manuel Locatelli (2176) is the midfielder who has made the most passes in this league, while considering the other roles on the pitch, he is behind only Rrahmani and Ndicka.
Of the defenders with at least two goals this season, Nicolo Savona, born on 19 March 2003, is the youngest; both of the Juventus full-back's goals came in away matches.

Pedro is only one goal away from his record for goals in a single Serie A season (nine in 2021/22). The Spaniard has scored seven goals as a substitute this campaign - in the top five major European leagues, only Alexander Sorloth (nine) has more.
Mattia Zaccagni, currently on eight goals and six assists this season, is two goals away from his scoring record in a single Serie A season (10 in 2022/23 with Lazio), while with his next assist he will surpass six assists for the first time in a top-flight league.
Valentin Castellanos has scored 10 goals this season; the last foreign striker to surpass 10 goals in a single Serie A fixture with Lazio was Keita Balde in 2016/17 (16 goals).
Matteo Guendouzi is the most used Lazio player in terms of minutes this season (3876 minutes); in general, among Serie A teams and considering all competitions, only two midfielders have played more minutes than the Frenchman (Tijjani Reijnders of AC Milan and Marten De Roon of Atalanta).
Luca Pellegrini and Nicolo Rovella have a history with Juventus: the full-back played 18 games with Juventus in the 2021/22 season, while the midfielder made three league appearances in 2022/23.