Preview: Inter vs Juventus

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·25 de outubro de 2024

Preview: Inter vs Juventus

The 183rd league instalment of the Derby d'Italia gtes underway this Sunday at San Siro, as Inter Milan play host to Juventus in Matchday 9 of this season's Serie A.

Ahead of the 18:00 CEST kick-off, here's all you need to know ahead of Sunday's blockbuster:

Head-to-head

This will be the 183rd meeting between Inter and Juventus in Serie A; the Bianconeri lead the head-to-head with 87 wins to 49, with 46 draws. Against no team has the Old Lady been more successful in its history in the tournament (87 against Lazio as well).
In the last eight matches between Inter and Juventus in Serie A, there have been three wins apiece and two draws, with exactly eight goals scored each.
Inter won the last time they faced Juventus in the league (1-0 on 4 February) but have not earned two wins in a row against the Bianconeri in Serie A since November 2003 to April 2004, when Alberto Zaccheroni coached the Milanese club.
Juventus have been unbeaten in six of the last seven matches (3W, 3D) in which they have faced Inter in Serie A with both teams in the top three at the start of the matchday.
Juventus (91%) and Inter (89.5%) are the two teams with the highest percentage of successful passes in the league, the same considering the % of successful passes in the opponent's half of the field (Juventus in 1st place with 86.5% and Inter in 2nd place with 85%).

Interesting Facts

Juventus' last defeat in Serie A was on 30 March (0-1 against Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico), since then they have gone 16 matches unbeaten in the league (6W, 10D).
The Bianconeri have conceded just one goal in the league this season; only three teams have conceded at most one goal after the first nine matches in a single Serie A season: Inter and Cagliari in 1966/67 (one each) and Roma in 2013/14 (also one).
Juventus is the only unbeaten team (4W, 4D) after the first eight matches in a Serie A season since 2019/20, even then it was the Bianconeri (7V, 1N though in that league).
Juventus are the only team in the top five European leagues to not have conceded an away goal this season. The Bianconeri could record four clean sheets in their first four Serie A away games of the season for only the second time in their history, after the 2004/05 campaign.
In the last three seasons (since 2022/23) only Barcelona (46) have not conceded more times than Juventus (44) in the top five European leagues.

Player Numbers

Dusan Vlahovic (15) and Marcus Thuram (13) are the two players who have scored the most goals in Serie A this calendar year, while the Serbian is the player who has hit the woodwork the most (six) in 2024 in Europe's top five leagues.
Should he score on Sunday, Kenan Yildiz (19 years and 176 days old on the date of the match) will become Juventus' second-youngest goalscorer against Inter in Serie A (after Bruno Nicole, 18 years and 297 days on 18/12/1958), as well as the youngest foreign player for the Bianconeri to find the net against Inter in the Italian top-flight.
Since the start of last season, only Brice Samba (13.1) has avoided conceding more goals (excluding own goals) than Michele Di Gregorio (12.8) among goalkeepers in the top five European leagues (36 conceded against an Expected Goals conceded of 48.8).
Among defenders who have never been beaten in dribbles this calendar year in Serie A, Pierre Kalulu is the one who has played the most matches (11).
Nicolas Gonzalez (who is in doubt for this match) has provided two assists against the Nerazzurri in the league (a record shared with Atalanta and Bologna among the opponents he has faced).

Opposition Focus

Lautaro Martínez's three goals this season have all come in away matches, with the Argentine failing to score in all of his last eight home appearances in Serie A. His last goal in a home league match dates back to 28 February against Atalanta.
Marcus Thuram has scored seven goals in the first eight league matches this season, in the three points per win era (since 1994/95) only three players have done better after Inter's first nine matches of the season in Serie A: Christian Vieri in 2002/03 (8), Mauro Icardi in 2017/18 (9) and Lautaro Martinez (11) last season.
The only Serie A match in which Matteo Darmian both scored and provided an assist was against Juventus, on 26 April 2015, in a Torino shirt.
In the last three Serie A seasons (since 2022/23), Inter have won 71% of their matches (51/72) with Hakan Calhanoglu on the pitch, with a points average of 2.3 - without the Turkish midfielder, the Nerazzurri's winning % drops to 50% (6/12), with a points average of 1.7.
Marko Arnautovic was coached by Thiago Motta at Bologna in Serie A between September 2022 and June 2023, scoring four goals in 15 league matches.