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Juventus aim to maintain their perfect Serie A record against Benevento when traveling there on Saturday night (6pm start).
PROBABLE ALIGNMENTS
Benevento (4-2-3-1): Montipo; Letizia, Glik, Caldirola, Barba; Hetemaj, Schiatarella, Ionite; Insigne, Caprari; Moncini.
Not available: Tula, Falque, Dabo, Foulon.
Juventus (4-3-1-2): Szczesny; Square, De Ligt, Danilo, Sandro; Bentancur, Athur, Rabiot; Kulusevski; Morata, Ronaldo.
Not available: Bonucci, Chiellini, Demiral.
KEY STATISTICS
– Benevento has scored in both Serie A matches against Juventus, however they have lost both matches.
– Juventus have not won three of their last four Serie A games away from home against newly promoted teams (D2 L1), without keeping a clean sheet in each of their last six games.
– Benevento has three wins in eight Serie A games this season (L5), the same number of wins it had in its first 29 games in its only previous Serie A campaign in 2017/18.
– Juventus have won just one of their last eight Serie A away games (D4 L3): 4-1 against Spezia, and have conceded at least once in each of their last nine away league matches ( 17 in the period, 1.9 on average).
– Juventus have conceded the fewest goals in Serie A for the first time since Matchday 32 last season (only six goals conceded so far). The Bianconeri could maintain two clean sheets in a row in the competition for the first time since a streak of three in June 2020.
– Only Sassuolo (five) have scored more goals from outside the area than Benevento in Serie A this season (four). However, Juventus have not conceded a goal from outside the box so far.
– Current Benevento and Juventus coaches Filippo Inzaghi and Andrea Pirlo played 156 Serie A games as teammates with AC Milan. As opponents they met four times in the competition, most recently Juventus-Brescia in April 2001.
– Gianluca Lapadula has been involved in five of Benevento’s last seven goals in Serie A (three goals and two assists), however he has not faced any team in the top flight other than Juventus without scoring or providing assists ( four games, level with AC Milan).
– Paulo Dybala scored the last of his three Serie A hat-tricks against Benevento at Ciro Vigorito in April 2018. The Juventus forward is the first, and so far, the only player to have scored three goals in a only match in this stadium in the highest category.
– Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 29 goals in Serie A in 2020 – he could reach 30 league goals in a single league calendar year for the ninth time in his career. In Serie A, only 11 players have reached this milestone, the most recent Ciro Immobile in 2017.
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