Preview: Napoli vs Juventus

Juventus FC

·24 January 2025

Juventus take on log leaders Napoli at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium on Saturday evening, in a match-up kicking off at 18:00 CET.

Ahead of Matchday 22's encounter, read up on all your pre-match must-knows:

Juventus is both the side that has won the most matches (71) and scored the most goals (227) against Napoli in Serie A. In the head to heads, Napoli have won 37 matches, with 49 of the 157 matches ending in a draw.
The Partenopei have remained unbeaten in six of their last seven matches against the Bianconeri in the league (4W, 2D), with the only Juve win in this period dating back to 8 December 2023 at the Allianz Stadium.
After a 0-0 draw in the first leg on 21 September last year, Napoli and Juventus could draw both Serie A fixtures in a season for the first time since 1996/97.
Juventus' last away win against Napoli in the league dates back to 3 March 2019: a 2-1 victory with goals from Miralem Pjanic and Emre Can.
In the last 19 matches between Napoli and Juventus in Naples, 59 goals have been scored at an average of 3.1 goals per match (36 for the Azzurri and 23 for the Bianconeri).

This challenge sees the two teams that have conceded the fewest goals this Serie A season face-off: Napoli (14) and Juventus (17).
The Bianconeri have not lost a league match since 30 March against Lazio, going unbeaten for 29 consecutive matches. Only three times in their history has Juventus recorded a streak of at least 30 matches in a row without defeat: 31 between April 2018 and March 2019, 49 between May 2011 and October 2012 and 30 between November 2005 and September 2007.
Napoli is both the team that has won the most games (16) this season in Europe's top five leagues and the team that has kept its goal unbeaten the most times (12) - right behind is Juventus with 11 clean sheets (alongside Real Sociedad).
Juve (8W, 13D) are one of only two sides still unbeaten this season in Europe's top five leagues, along with Paris Saint-Germain (14W, 4D). After the win last time out against AC Milan, the Bianconeri could win two matches in a row against teams occupying one of the top eight positions in the Serie A standings for the first time since December 2023 (against Roma and Napoli in that case).
On the one hand, Napoli is, together with Roma, one of the two teams that have not yet drawn any home matches this season; on the other hand, no team has drawn more away matches than Juventus (six) in the top five European leagues.

Five of Dusan Vlahovic's seven goals this season have been scored away from home, only Sebastiano Esposito (seven) and Mateo Retegui (six) have more away goals than the Serbian this campaign.
Among all the players who have contributed to at least five league goals this season, Samuel Mbangula has played the fewest minutes (590 – with three goals and two assists), in third place is David Neres (724 – with two goals and four winning passes), among them Daniel Mosquera (592 - 4G+1A).
The first of Andrea Cambiaso's five Serie A goals came against Napoli on 29 August 2021 in a Genoa shirt.
Nicolas Gonzalez has been involved in three goals against Napoli in the league (two goals and an assist), only against Sassuolo (four) has he been involved in more goals in Serie A.
Teun Koopmeiners could become the first Dutch goalscorer in the challenge between Juventus and Napoli in Serie A history. He scored one goal against Napoli in the league, on 30 March 2024 at the Maradona.

Next will be Romelu Lukaku's 200th career goal in Europe's top five leagues. The Belgian striker has already scored three goals against Juventus across all competitions, and could become only the second player in Serie A history to score against Juventus in the shirts of Inter, Roma and Napoli, after Amedeo Amadei.
Scott McTominay has scored five goals this season - only once did he score more in a single league campaign: with Manchester United in the Premier League 2023/24 (seven goals). The Scot has also only twice found the goal in two league appearances in a row: in October 2023 and February 2021.
After scoring against Atalanta in their most recent match, Matteo Politano could score in two matches in a row in the league for the first time since April. Politano has been involved in four goals against Juventus in Serie A (two goals and two assists).
Among goalkeepers with at least 10 appearances this season, only Vanja Milinkovic-Savic (77%) and Nicola Leali (76%) boast a higher save percentage than Alex Meret (73%).
Since his first goal against the Bianconeri in Serie A (27 November 2016), no player has scored more goals than Giovanni Simeone against Juventus in the Italian top-flight: six, equalling Duvan Zapata.