Preview: Juventus vs Milan

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·17 January 2025

The very first match of 2025 at the Allianz Stadium sees Juventus host rivals Milan on Saturday, 18 January, with kick-off set for 18:00 CET.

Sharpen your pre-match knowledge with these interesting stats below:

This will be the 180th meeting between Juventus and AC Milan in Serie A: the Bianconeri lead the head-to-head with 68 wins versus 53 for the Rossoneri, with 58 encounters ending in a draw.
After the Italian Super Cup clash earlier this month, Juventus and Milan will face each other twice in the space 15 days for the first time since February 2002 – in that case, it was a two-legged Coppa Italia tie, in which the Bianconeri won the first leg and drew the return.
The Bianconeri have kept a clean sheet in their last three league games against Milan (1W, 2D) and have never kept four clean sheets in a row against the Rossoneri in the competition.
In the last eight matches between Juventus and AC Milan in the league, only once have both sides scored, in the 1-1 draw played on 19 September 2021.
The three best US goalscorers in Serie A history - Timothy Weah (four goals), Weston McKennie (11) and Christian Pulisic (17) - face each other in this challenge.

The only team that has managed to remain unbeaten in the first 20 matches of a Serie A season since the beginning of the last decade is Juventus, having done so in 2011/12 (38/38 without defeat), in 2018/19 (first 27 matches without a defeat) and finally, in the current campaign.
34% of the Bianconeri's goals this season have been scored during the first half-hour of play (11 out of 32), only Parma (36%) and AC Milan (38%) have scored more goals in this time interval.
Milan is the only team that has not conceded a goal during injury time, counting both the first and second half, this Serie A season.
Juventus is, together with Inter Milan, one of the two teams that have not conceded a goal from distance in the league - across the top five European leagues this season, they are also joined by Lille and Newcastle.
The three Serie A players who have completed the most dribbles this season among all competitions face off in this encounter: Rafael Leao (66), Francisco Conceicao (51) and Kenan Yildiz (48).

Manuel Locatelli's first 48 appearances in Serie A came with the Milan shirt between 2016 and 2018, in which he scored two goals, including one against Juventus on 22 October 2016. He has since scored against Rossoneri in the competition, the winner in last season’s clash at San Siro.
Juventus' last 11 Serie A goals have been scored by 10 different players; the only one to score more than once in this period was Khephren Thuram, with a brace against Fiorentina. The French midfielder has been involved in three goals in his last two home league appearances.
Kenan Yildiz has scored six goals in Serie A before turning 20, the same amount as Alessandro Del Piero. Since the early 1990s only Moise Kean (seven) has done better with the Juventus shirt in the competition considering under-20 players.
Over the last two Serie A seasons, Weston McKennie has provided 10 assists and among midfielders, only this match’s opponent Christian Pulisic (12) and Henrikh Mkhitaryan (11) have done better. McKennie’s assists have won eight points for his team, more than any other midfielder over this period.
Pierre Kalulu, who scored in the most recent league game, made his Serie A debut with Milan, playing 84 games in the competition between 2020 and 2024 (with three goals scored). Among players with at least 15 matches under the belt this season, the French defender has the highest average number of balls played in 90 minutes (95.6).

Rafael Leao is the only player to have scored at least five league goals and dished out at least five league assists in away matches from the beginning of 2024 to date (six goals and five assists). The Portuguese forward has however not been involved in any goal contributions in his last seven matches against Juventus.
Tijjani Reijnders has been involved in 11 goals this season, considering all competitions (nine goals and two assists), more than any other Serie A central midfielder.
Theo Hernández scored 30 goals in Serie A, becoming the first defender in AC Milan's history to reach this milestone in the competition. Only four defenders have done better with a single team in Serie A history, and he could join Fiorentina's Sergio Cervato (31) with his next goal.
Mike Maignan (49) is close to keeping 50 clean sheets in all competitions with AC Milan: he could become the first Serie A goalkeeper to reach this milestone since his debut with the Rossoneri in 2021/22.
Fikayo Tomori's first two Serie A goals came against Juventus, in May 2021 and October 2022, in what are two of the Rossoneri's last three wins against the Bianconeri in the competition (the other in May 2023).