Preview: Juventus vs Empoli

Juventus FC

·1 febbraio 2025

Juventus are back at home for Matchday 23 of this season's Serie A, taking on Empoli in a lunch-time kick-off at Allianz Stadium.

Sharpen your knowledge ahead of Sunday's encounter with our pre-match preview:

Juventus have drawn their last two Serie A matches against Empoli, but have never failed to win three games against them in a row. Only in the 1998/99 season did they fail to win neither the first nor return leg against the Tuscans.
Empoli have only avoided defeat in seven of the last 24 meetings against Juventus in Serie A (3W, 4D), five of which came in the return leg.
The Bianconeri have won 80% of their home matches against Empoli in Serie A (12V, 2D, 1L): among their current opponents in the competition, only against Hellas Verona (85%) do the Old Lady have a higher home success rate.
Empoli have lost 22 Serie A matches against Juventus - against only Roma (23) and Inter (27) do they have more defeats in the top-flight.
In 15 away matches against Juventus in Serie A, Empoli have only once managed to score more than one goal, in the 5-2 defeat on 21 December 1997; overall they have not found a way to goal in 10 of those away matches.

Juventus have remained unbeaten in their last 11 Serie A matches played at 12.30pm, winning seven times and drawing four, including two in the most recent two (0-0 against Genoa and 1-1 against Cagliari).
Empoli on the other hand have won only one of their last 14 Serie A matches played on Sunday at 12:30pm (4D, 9L) - 1-0 against Napoli on 12 November 2023 - and in no fewer than 10 of these they have failed to score.
Juventus' average sequence duration in Serie A this season is 15.2 seconds, the highest in the competition - on the other hand, Empoli are last in this classification with 7.0 seconds.
Empoli are the only team not to have won in the last seven matchdays of Serie A (2D, 5L) and are the team that has picked up the fewest points in that period overall, two, at an average of 0.3 per match.
Juventus have scored with 14 different players in this league, only Inter (16) have more - on the other hand, no team has fewer goalscorers than Empoli (five, like Lecce).

After his goal against Napoli, Randal Kolo Muani can become the second player to score in his first two Serie A appearances with Juventus in the three-points-per-win era, after Carlos Tevez in August 2013.
Timothy Weah is the third American player to score at least five goals in a Serie A season, after Christian Pulisic (12 in 2023/24 and six in 2024/25) and Weston McKennie (five in 2020/21).
Nicolas Gonzalez (34 goals and 15 assists) is close to being involved in 50 goals in Europe's top five leagues.
Juventus is, along with Hellas Verona, one of the two teams with more defenders born from 2000 onwards to have played at least 400 minutes this season: Nicolo Savona (1215), Juan Cabal (461), Pierre Kalulu (1617) and Andrea Cambiaso (1503).
Only Romeo Lavia is younger (2004, 10 matches) than Renato Veiga (2003, seven matches) among Chelsea players who played more than five matches in the 2024/25 Premier League.

Sebastiano Esposito has scored six goals in the eight matches he has played since the beginning of December and is the highest-scoring player in the Italian top-flight during this period.
Lorenzo Colombo scored five goals this season, his joint-highest tally alongside the five goals in 33 matches he scored for Lecce in the 2022/23 campaign. The Empoli striker has scored 11 of his 14 goals in Serie A away from home.
Emmanuel Gyasi is on 15 goals in Serie A and is close to equalling Kevin-Prince Boateng (16) in second place among the top Ghanaian scorers in Serie A. The Empoli player scored against Juventus on 22 September 2021, with Spezia, at the Picco.
Mattia De Sciglio played 82 games with Juventus in Serie A between 2017 and last March, scoring his first goal for the Bianconeri in the tournament in his 112th match (on 26/11/2017, against Crotone).
Among the players who have made more than 10 appearances with a single team over the last three Serie A seasons, Jacopo Fazzini, born on 16 March 2003, is the second youngest, after Diego Coppola (28/12/2003) of Hellas Verona.