Opposition Focus | Ten things to know about Lazio

Juventus are back in action after the international break this weekend, with the Bianconeri travelling to the Italian capital to take on Lazio on Saturday, 30 March. Kick-off in Rome is set for 18:00 CET.

With as many as 13 players away representing their respective nations over the last week or so, the Bianconeri have been back to work during the week and sights are firmly fixed on the trip to the Eternal City.

Ahead of Saturday evening's match-up, here's ten things to know about the Biancocelesti.

1. Lazio have lost five of their last Serie A matches, as many as they had suffered in their previous 19 games in the competition.
2. Lazio have lost their last three Serie A matches at the Stadio Olimpico. They have only once in their top-flight history suffering more straight home defeats - five between February and April 1961.
3. Lazio have hit the woodwork 14 times this season, with only Fiorentina (17) doing so more often this season. Ciro Immobile and Luis Alberto have hit the woodwork more than any other player (three each).
4. Lazio are the side with the fewest goals conceded from set-pieces this season, in percentage terms (18%, six from 33).
5. Ciro Immobile, who played three Serie A matches for Juventus between 2009 and 2010, has scored four times against the Bianconeri. Only one of those has come at home - with Genoa in September 2009.
6. Immobile is just one goal away from 250 Serie A goal involvements - he has scored 200 times and provided 49 assists.
7. Juventus are the team against whom Immobile has played the most minutes in home games for Lazio - 401. Each of his three goals for the club against Juventus have come in Turin.
8. Having gone without a goal in five games against Juventus, Luis Alberto has had a direct hand in one in each of his last two appearances - scoring one and assisting another.
9. With 14 goals and six assists, Mattia Zaccagni is one of just two Italian midfielders to have had a hand in 20 goals or more since the beginning of last season, alongside Antonio Candreva (22, 12 goals and 10 assists).
10. Last time out against Frosinone, Valentin Castellanos scored more than one goal in a game for just the second time in Europe’s top-five leagues. The only other time he managed that was by hitting four in a 4-2 Girone win against Real Madrid on 25 April, 2023.