Preview: Juventus vs Parma

Midweek Serie A action this week sees Juventus host Parma at the Allianz Stadium on Wednesday evening.

Prepare yourself for the 20:45 CET showdown with our pre-match preview:

Head-to-head

• Parma have conceded 95 goals against Juventus in Serie A, more than against any other team in the Italian top-flight. The two teams’ head-to-head record reads as follows: 26 Bianconeri wins, 16 draws and 10 Gialloblu victories.

• Parma's biggest defeat in Serie A was against Juventus: a 7-0 win for the Bianconeri on 9 November 2014.

• Juventus have remained unbeaten in 13 of their last 14 matches against Parma in Serie A (10W, 3D), winning all of the last four clashes in a row.

• The Bianconeri have won their last seven matches against Parma played in the first half of the Serie A season, with an aggregate score of 21-2.

• Juventus are unbeaten against Parma in Serie A in matches played on a Wednesday: in six matches, the Bianconeri have recorded four wins and two draws.

Interesting Facts

• Of the teams Juventus have always scored against in home matches in Serie A, Parma are the side the Bianconeri have faced the most: 26 home matches, scoring 65 goals (on average, 2.5 goals per match).

• Parma have not won any of their last 18 Serie A away matches (8D, 10L) and have only once recorded a longer unsuccessful away streak in the competition, between May 2007 and September 2009 (23).

• The Bianconeri have conceded only 69 shots domestically, and in the top five European leagues only Bayern Munich (43) and Manchester City (64) have done better than the Bianconeri so far this season.

• Parma are one of four teams in this league, along with Empoli, Lazio and Milan, to have scored all their goals from inside the penalty area (12/12).

• Thiago Motta has never faced Parma in Serie A as a coach; as a player, however, he was unbeaten against the Gialloblu in the competition (3W, 1D) and also scored two goals against the Emiliani (against no other team has he done better).

Player Numbers

• Dusan Vlahovic is one goal away from scoring 50 goals in a Juventus shirt, considering all competitions. Considering the period from January 2022 onwards, he has scored at least 32 more goals than any other teammate.

• In the previous match against Inter Milan, Kenan Yildiz (19 years, 176 days) became the third-youngest substitute in the three-points-for-a-win era to score a brace in Serie A, after Pietro Pellegri (16 years, 184 days on 17 September 2017) and Felix Afena-Gyan (18 years, 306 days on 21/11/2021).

• One of Manuel Locatelli's two penalty goals in Serie A was against Parma on 16 May 2021, for Sassuolo.

• Danilo is one match away from 150 Serie A appearances in a Juventus shirt; since making his debut in 2019/20 only Adrien Rabiot (156) has played more games than the Brazilian defender for Juventus.

• Francisco Conceicao completes an average of 3.2 dribbles every 90 minutes; among players on the pitch at least 180 minutes in this league, only Noah Okafor (3.4) has a better average. Among players with at least 10 dribbles attempted, only Frank Anguissa (75%) and teammate Douglas Luiz (82%: 9/11) have a better success rate than the Portuguese (69%: 9/13).

Opposition Focus

• Parma's last six goals in Serie A have been scored by six different players: Pontus Almqvist, Antoine Hainaut, Dennis Man, Hernani, Ange-Yoan Bonny and Gabriel Charpentier.

• Among the players in the top five European leagues and respective second divisions who have at least eight goals and at least eight assists since the start of last season, only Savinho (2004) and Lamine Yamal (2007) are younger than Ange-Yoan Bonny.

• Adrian Bernabe is the midfielder who has won the most duels in this league: 53, at least seven more than any other player.

• All three goals scored by Dennis Man this season have come from left-footed strikes; only Dusan Vlahovic has been on target more times (six) with his left foot this campaign.

• Hernani made his Serie A debut on 24 August 2019 in the Parma shirt, against Juventus.