Preview: Atalanta vs Juventus

Juventus FC

·13 gennaio 2025

Preview: Atalanta vs Juventus

Midweek action this week sees Juventus travel to Bergamo to take on Atalanta in their next Serie A match-up taking place on Tuesday, 14 January, kicking off at 20:45 CET.

Prepare for our upcoming clash with our comprehensive pre-match preview below:

Head-to-head

The upcoming match will be the 145th confrontation in all competitions between Atalanta and Juventus since 1929/30, with the head-to-head record reading 17 Nerazzurri wins, 52 draws and 75 Bianconeri victories.
After their success in the Coppa Italia final on May 15, Juventus could win two matches in a row against Atalanta across all competitions for the first time since the period between January and March 2018 (a series of three in that case).
Atalanta has drawn 45 of its 124 matches against Juventus in Serie A (13W, 66L), against no team have they recorded more draws in the league (also tied at 45 against AC Milan).
Juventus has remained unbeaten in 18 of the last 19 away matches against Atalanta in Serie A (12W, 6D). La Dea's only home win in this period came on April 18, 2021 (1-0 with goal from Ruslan Malinovskyi).
Overall, Atalanta and Juventus have drawn 10 of the last 15 Serie A matches – since Gian Piero Gasperini became the coach of Atalanta (in 2016/17), this is the match-up that has seen the most draws in the competition (10).

Interesting Facts

Atalanta and Juventus will face each other in a Serie A match played on a Tuesday for the first time in their history.
Atalanta have scored in each of their last 24 home matches in Serie A (62 goals in total, 2.6 per game), a record for La Dea in front of their home crowd. The last time the Nerazzurri failed to score in a home league match was on October 1, 2023, precisely against Juventus (a 0-0 draw).
The Bianconeri have scored a goal in 24% of their counterattacks in Serie A this season (four goals from 17 counter-attacks), an all-time record in the current tournament.
Atalanta is the team that has won the most matches (14) and scored the most goals (50) at home in the 2024 calendar year in Serie A; more specifically, they have won 10 of the last 12 home matches played in the competition (2D).
Overall, Juventus is the team with the highest number of successful passes in the league both in absolute value (9123) and as a percentage of total passes attempted (89.5%), as well as the highest average ball possession per game (61%).

Player Numbers

Kenan Yildiz has scored three of his four goals away from home this season, and overall five of his six Serie A goals have come on the road; after his goal in the derby against Torino, he could score in two straight appearances in the top-flight for the first time.
Teun Koopmeiners' first three seasons with a club in Europe's top five leagues was with Atalanta, between 2021/22 and 2023/24: the Dutchman played 129 games between all competitions with La Dea, scoring 29 goals - fewer goals only than Lorenzo Pellegrini (32) in this period in official competitions among Serie A midfielders.
Nicolas Gonzalez has already been involved in three goals against Atalanta in Serie A (one goal and two assists) and only against Sassuolo (four goals) does he boast more goal contributions in the Italian top-flight.
Among players who have scored more than one goal and provided more than one assist this season, only Nico Paz, Santiago Castro and Kenan Yildiz are younger than Samuel Mbangula (2G+2A, born in September 2004).
When he wore the Genoa jersey, Mattia Perin played 88 Serie A matches under the technical guidance of Gian Piero Gasperini: La Dea’s gaffer is the coach under whom the Juventus goalkeeper played the most matches and recorded the most clean sheets (23) in his career in the Italian top-flight.

Opposition Focus

Ademola Lookman - who is at 49 goals in Europe's top five leagues - is one of only three players who have managed to take part in at least three goals in a single Serie A match against Juventus over the past five seasons (since 2020/21), along with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Victor Osimhen.
In 2024, Charles De Ketelaere (10 goals and seven assists) and Ademola Lookman (10 goals and five winning passes) were the only two players to contribute to at least 15 home goals in Serie A.
Considering all competitions, Juventus is the team in the top five European leagues with which Juan Cuadrado – a doubt for this match – has made the most appearances in his career (314) and one of the two with which he has scored the most goals (26, as with the Fiorentina shirt).
Among the sides against whom he has not scored Serie A, Juventus is one of the three sides against which Lazar Samardzic has played the most matches in the competition: five.
Marco Carnesecchi has recorded six clean sheets in 18 appearances so far this campaign, only in 2023/24 (eight, but in 27 games) had the Nerazzurri goalkeeper kept his goal unbeaten more times in Serie A.