Preview: Bologna vs Juventus

Juventus FC

·2. Mai 2025

It's fourth versus fifth on the Serie A table as Juventus take on Bologna at the Renato Dall'Ara Stadium on Sunday evening.

Sharpen your pre-match knowledge with the following facts ahead of the 20:45 CEST kick-off:

Juventus is the team that has won the most Serie A matches against Bologna, earning an impressive 79 Bianconeri wins, with 53 draws and 23 Rossoblu victories completing the tally.
Bologna and Juventus have drawn each of their last four Serie A matches – they have not drawn five consecutive matches in the top-flight since the period between 1978 and 1980.
Juve has remained unbeaten in their last 25 Serie A matches against Bologna (17W, 8D): for the Bianconeri, this is the longest current streak of consecutive matches without defeat in the competition. The last Rossoblu victory over the Bianconeri in the tournament dates back to 26 February, 2011.
In the last eight matches on Emilian soil against the Rossoblu, the Old Lady has always scored at least once.
The most frequent scoreline between Bologna and Juventus in the league is 1-1, the final result in 24 previous meetings, including three of the last six league challenges between these two teams.

Bologna has not beaten Juventus at home in Serie A since 29 November 1998; since then, in 21 challenges at the Dall'Ara Stadium, there have been 14 Bianconeri wins and seven draws.
Bologna is the team with the most points at home in Serie A since the start of 2025: 23, the result of seven wins and two draws in nine matches played at the Dall'Ara.
Juventus has scored at least one goal in each of their last 17 Serie A matches against Bologna (37 goals, 2.2 average per game), already a record streak for the Bianconeri against the Rossoblu in the competition.
Sunday’s match is a challenge between two of the three teams with the highest average ball possession in the league: 58.6% for the Bianconeri, 58.2% for the Rossoblu (only Inter with 59.9% is higher).
Juventus is - like Napoli - one of the two teams that have finished the most games (16) without conceding this season.

Next will be the 100th Serie A appearance for Michele Di Gregorio (35 clean sheets and 112 goals conceded in Serie A so far): three of those 35 clean sheets have come in the last three matches he has played against Bologna in the competition.
Randal Kolo-Muani has scored six goals in 12 Serie A matches played with Juventus: this average of 0.5 goals per match is the highest for him in his career with a club in Europe's top five leagues - with PSG he scored eight goals in 36 appearances, with Eintracht 16 goals in 34, and with Nantes, 21 goals in 79 matches.
Dusan Vlahovic, who will play his 200th Serie A match in his next game, has scored six goals against Bologna in Serie A and only against Cagliari has he done better in the competition (eight). In the first leg match against Bologna he provided an assist, bringing the tally to eight goal contributions (six goals, two assists) in the last eight league challenges against the Emiliani.
Khephren Thuram has been involved in eight goals this season (three goals, five assists): the last central midfielder in both his Juventus and Serie A debut season to do better was Sami Khedira (nine, thanks to five goals and four assists in 2015/16).
In the nine Serie A games in which Renato Veiga has played in Bianconero, Juventus has earned an average of 2.1 points per game (better than the 1.7 in the 25 without him) and a 66.7 percent winning percentage, better than the 40 percent without him.

Juventus is, with Milan, one of the two teams against which Riccardo Orsolini has played the most matches without ever managing to win in Serie A: four draws and seven defeats in 11 matches against the Bianconeri for the Bologna player.
Remo Freuler – who has still not scored yet this campaign, despite having never ended a season without a goal to his name - has three goals against Juventus in Serie A – against no team has done better in the competition (three goals also against Napoli).
Among defenders in this league, Sam Beukema is in the top three in both passes made (1971, behind only Rrahmani and N'Dicka) and duels won (178, behind only Mina and Coppola).
Santiago Castro - who is at 49 appearances in all competitions in a Rossoblu shirt - has scored eight goals this season: the last player to score more before turning 21 in a Bologna shirt in a single Serie A season was Roberto Mancini: nine in 1981/82.
In the six matches played without Dan Ndoye this season, Bologna has won just twice (33.3 percent win rate) and scored just seven goals (1.2 average per match); in the 28 with the Swiss player, their win rate is 50 percent (14 wins) and the average goals scored rises to 1.6.