23 April 2023
Juventus host Serie A leaders Napoli in a highly-anticipated league encounter at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday evening at 20:45 CEST. Find out more about the history of this match-up below:
TWICE AS NICE | This will be the 154th league meeting between Napoli and Juventus, with the Bianconeri enjoying twice as many victories as the Neapolitans (70 v 35) and 48 encounters ending in a draw. Juventus is the team against which Napoli have lost the most Serie A matches (70) and against whom they have conceded the most (225).
HOME COMFORT | Juventus are unbeaten in 11 of the last 12 home games against Napoli in Serie A (W9, D2), with Napoli’s last success in Turin dating back five years to April 2018.
KEEPING IT CLEAN | Only Barcelona (12) have kept more home clean sheets than Juventus (nine) in Europe's top five leagues so far this season. Considering both home and away matches, Juventus (17) and Napoli (15) are two of the four teams to have recorded the most clean sheets in Europe’s top five leagues, with only Barcelona (22) and Lazio (18) ahead of them.
CALLING UPON AN ANGEL | Ángel Di María scored in the first leg against Napoli – over the past two decades, only two Juventus players have scored in both of their first two matches against the Neapolitans in Serie A: Alessandro Matri in 2011 and Darko Kovacevic between 2000 and 2001.
DEBUT GOALS | Paul Pogba scored his first Serie A goal against Napoli on 20 October 2012, the first of his three goals against the Partenopei, his favourite opponent alongside Torino in the league. Danilo made his Serie A debut against Napoli in August 2019, coming on as a substitute before finding the back of the net just 29 seconds later for his first Bianconero goal.
EVEN STEVENS | Massimiliano Allegri and Luciano Spalletti have met on 12 previous occasions as coaches in Serie A, earning exactly four wins apiece, with four encounters ending in a draw.
