Preview: Venezia vs Juventus

Juventus see out the 2024/25 season on Sunday, 25 May, taking on Venezia at the Pier Luigi Penzo Stadium in Venice.

Before the 20:45 CEST match-up, read all the pre-match stats and facts below:

Head-to-head

• Juventus have lost only two of their 27 matches (W17, D8) against Venezia in Serie A, both in Venice: the first, 2-0, in March 1942, and the second, 3-0, in April 1962.
• Venezia have conceded 21 goals in 13 home games against Juventus in Serie A; among teams faced at least 10 times at home in the competition, only against Milan have the Venetians recorded a higher average of goals conceded per match (1.9) than against the Bianconeri (1.6, as against Roma).
• After losing only one of their first seven matches against Juventus in Serie A (W1, D5), Venezia suffered 16 defeats in their next 20 (W1, D3); only Milan have beaten the Venetians more times (18) than the Bianconeri (17) in Serie A.
• Venezia and Juventus have faced each other twice on the final day of a Serie A season: in 1961/62 (3-0 for the Venetians at the Penzo) and in 1998/99 (3-2 for the Bianconeri at the Delle Alpi).
• Venezia's last home win against Juventus in Serie A dates back to April 1962; since then, there have been four Bianconeri wins and two draws, including the most recent match in December 2021, with the two teams not drawing two consecutive games in Veneto since 1940.

Interesting Facts

• Juventus would earn the last available place in the Champions League in the event of a victory against Venezia. A draw would only suffice if Roma fails to win against Torino, while a loss would only be enough if they lose with a maximum difference of two goals, and both Roma and Lazio fail to record three points.
• Venezia are second-to-last in the standings with 29 points, and will remain in Serie A only if they beat Juventus, and at the same time, Lecce and Empoli lose.
• Juventus have won and kept a clean sheet on the final day of the last two seasons; the Bianconeri have not kept three clean sheets in a row on the final day of the season in Serie A since 1980-1982, the only time they have managed to do so in their history.
• Over the last nine league games, Venezia have never repeated the same result twice in a row (2W, 4D, 3L), losing against Cagliari in their most recent match.
• Venezia has conceded nine goals from penalties, only less than Alaves (11) and St Etienne (13) in the top five European leagues. The last team to have conceded at least 10 goals from the penalty spot in a single Serie A season was Salernitana in the 2023/24 season (10).

Player Numbers

• Having reached 10 goal contributions this season with two assists last time out, Kenan Yildiz (six goals, four assists) is the youngest player in this Serie A season to reach double figures in terms of goal involvements. With the young Turkish player in the starting lineup, Juventus has earned an average of 2.1 points this campaign, which drops to less than half (1.0) in the 10 games in which he has not started.
• After failing to score in his first 12 career Serie A games against teams newly promoted from Serie B, Dusan Vlahovic has scored 17 goals in his subsequent 24 games against these opponents, including in the first leg against Venezia, in December.
• Randal Kolo Muani has scored seven goals since his Serie A debut; the last French Juventus player to score more goals in a single Serie A season starting from January was David Trezeguet in 2005/06 (eight).
• Weston McKennie's last six assists have all been for six different players, after the previous six had all led to a Dusan Vlahovic goal.
• Manuel Locatelli is the midfielder with the most successful passes in the opposition half (1156) and the most forward passes (844) this season.

Opposition Focus

• Hans Nicolussi Caviglia, who scored two goals from direct free kicks (a record in this Serie A season), played 11 matches for Juventus in the top-flight, between 2018/19 and 2023/24.
• The next match will be Francesco Zampano's 100th in all competitions for Venezia. The last of the nine assists provided by the Venezia defender in Serie A came against Juventus in the first leg in December.
• Among Italian players who have been involved in more than five goals this campaign, only Fabio Miretti is younger (born in August 2003, six appearances) than Gaetano Oristanio: six, made up of three goals and three assists (born in September 2002).
• Jay Idzes' only goal in Serie A came against Juventus, in the first leg. The 24-year-old, who will miss the match due to suspension, has played 35 games in the current tournament so far: less than only Gaetano Oristanio (36) for Venezia (35 also for Mikael Ellertsson).
• Christian Gytkjaer's first goal in Serie A came against Juventus, in September 2022, with Monza: that also remains the only goal scored by the striker in a home match in the top-flight.