Preview: Juventus vs Milan - Italian Super Cup

Juventus take on AC Milan in their first fixture of 2025 in the semi-final of the Italian Super Cup in Riyadh on Friday, 3 January 2025. Kick-off is fixed for 20:00 CET.

Sharpen your pre-match knowledge with these stats and facts:

Head-to-head

• Juventus and Milan have met three times in the Italian Super Cup before, with the Bianconeri winning the most recent of those (1-0 on 16 January, 2019). The other two were settled on penalties - with one win apiece.

• Just four goals have been scored in the last six games between these two sides, with each of the last two such matches ending 0-0.

• Juventus have kept three consecutive clean sheets against Milan in all competitions, never managing four in a row against the Rossoneri since 1929/30.

Interesting Facts

• Juventus have won more Italian Super Cups than anybody, with nine from 17 participations in the competition. Milan have won seven from their 12.

• The last time Milan and Juventus met to open a calendar year was on 6 January, 1999, with that game ending 1-1 in Serie A.

• The Bianconeri have lost just one of their last 31 games across all competitions, with no team in Europe’s top five leagues suffering fewer defeats in that time (Liverpool also with one).

• Juventus haven’t lost their opening match of a calendar year in any of the last 11 years, last doing so against Sampdoria in Serie A back on 6 January, 2013.

• The Bianconeri have scored at least twice in each of the last six games they’ve played, not managing a longer such streak since between June and July 2020 - eight on that occasion.

Player Numbers

• No Serie A player ended 2024 with more goals than Dusan Vlahovic’s 24. He is also one of the three Juventus players to have scored in every competition the Bianconeri are in this season, along with Nico Gonzalez and Francisco Conceicao.

• Teun Koopmeiners has been involved in as many as four goals in his last four matches against AC Milan, with three goals and one assist, making them his favourite opposition since arriving in Italy.

• Having netted last time out, Khephren Thuram could score in back-to-back matches for just the second time, last doing so for Nice in January 2022.

• Three of the four Serie A players with the most dribbles completed across all competitions are involved in this fixture: Rafael Leao (63), Francisco Conceicao (51) and Kenan Yildiz (42), with Dodo (43) the other.

Opposition Focus

• Tijjani Reijnders is Milan’s top scorer in all competitions this season with nine. In the last five years, only Ruben Loftus-Cheek (10 in 2023/24 and Franck Kessie (14 in 2020/21) have managed more as Rossoneri midfielders.

• Having taken part in two goals in his first four Milan appearances against Juventus, Rafael Leao has since gone without a goal in the following seven games against the Bianconeri.

• Tammy Abraham has scored a goal in each of the last two games he has started against Juventus. With five goals and three assists this season, he is second only to Christian Pulisic as the Milan player with the best goals-to-minutes ratio, averaging every 112 minutes (Pulisic averages 110).