Juventus are all of seven video games into their 2025-26 Serie A season, however their first journey to the Italian capital of the brand new marketing campaign feels somewhat extra tenuous than issues most likely must be at this level of the yr.
Why’s that?
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Properly, it truly is fairly easy: Juventus are within the midst of a winless run of type that we haven’t seen on the membership in fairly some time. It’s not only one or two managers in the past, both. It’s that hasn’t seen the Bianconeri not win any of their final seven video games that we haven’t seen from Juventus within the final 16 years — a span of time that goes all the best way again to even earlier than Antonio Conte confirmed again up in Turin and turned issues into the beginnings of a decade of home dominance.
So perhaps it’s somewhat ironic that the subsequent membership up on the schedule is managed by the final man to win the Serie A title at Juventus. Perhaps it’s somewhat bit merciless as properly contemplating the present state of Juventus and the way they’ve gone from beginning robust with three straight wins to not profitable a recreation in six weeks.
Both method, Juventus head to the Italian capital to face a Lazio facet on Sunday night time that hasn’t precisely started the season all that properly in Maurizio Sarri’s return to the membership. Juventus sit in seventh place — a transparent signal that the three straight wins underneath Igor Tudor to start the season really feel like ages in the past. Lazio, in a good worse standing, are twelfth and have solely received considered one of their final 5 fixtures. It’s a gathering that not so way back was a battle for a Champions League spot.
Now, although, as Tudor could or might not be combating for his job, it’s a matchup between two golf equipment who’re simply attempting to get one thing getting in the suitable course after poor early-season runs of type.
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Throughout his pre-match press convention on Saturday, Tudor stated that “the emotions after Madrid are largely constructive” regardless of the 1-0 loss to Actual Madrid within the Champions League, a defeat that noticed Juve drop to twenty fifth within the league part desk. If the UCL league part have been to have ended this week, Juve wouldn’t even be in one of many 16 play-off spots, as a substitute watching the remainder of the competitors from dwelling.
It’s simply the most recent chapter on this seven-game run that has seen issues go south in a rush. And now we wait to see if Juventus can really get a win and put an finish to it this weekend or see it stretch on for one more few days earlier than their first midweek Serie A motion of the season.
After all, any additional limping forward on this present state received’t assist Tudor’s case that he can get issues rotated and again in the suitable course. In a method, he’s attempting to do one thing that he already did throughout the springtime when issues have been such a multitude following the firing of Thiago Motta. This time round, although, Tudor has try to repair the issues that he’s been an element in creating quite than simplifying issues after any person else created the mess.
And they are going to be attempting to do it towards a Lazio facet which have recorded back-to-back attracts in two very completely different sorts of how. The primary got here within the type of a 3-3 draw with a beforehand struggling Torino facet that solely occurred due to a PK within the … checks notes … 102nd minute. Every week later, Lazio performed to a scoreless draw with Atalanta, a squad that has instantly hit the skids quite a bit like Juve has results-wise.
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It’s onerous to say the place this Lazio workforce is in comparison with Juventus to start Sarri 2.0. They didn’t have any kind of switch marketing campaign this summer time due to a switch ban. They’re reportedly coping with loads of monetary points, and on the sphere they’re not taking part in properly on any kind of constant foundation.
Then once more, it’s not like the present state of Juventus is a lot better. Tudor wants a win for the sake of his job safety. Juve want the win for the sake of their confidence. And their standing within the desk, in fact. It’s bizarre to assume that Juve might really be simply three factors off the Serie A lead in the event that they do beat Lazio on Sunday night time
The catch is that they must beat Lazio. And profitable is one thing Juventus hasn’t accomplished in any respect the final month and a half, so let’s see how all of that goes on the Olimpico.
TEAM NEWS
Gleison Bremer stays out injured following meniscus surgical procedure.
Juan Cabal stays out injured as a consequence of his hamstring injured suffered towards Villarreal earlier this month.
Carlo Pinsoglio stays out injured after suffered a medium-to-high grade calf pressure earlier this month. (Though, like on Wednesday towards Actual Madrid, Pinsoglio will nonetheless probably make the journey with the workforce as a result of that’s simply the sort of man that he’s.)
Arek Milik stays out injured indefinity.
Tudor talked about at his pre-match press convention that Kenan Yildiz is coping with a minor knee challenge. As of this writing, although, a lot of the predicted lineups nonetheless embody Yildiz in Juventus’ beginning XI towards Lazio.
Tudor additionally stated that Juve are persevering with to be cautious relating to ramping up Edon Zhegrova’s workload following his prolonged harm absence at first of the yr with Lille. He’s at present coping with a groin challenge, in line with Tudor, and may’t push it an excessive amount of or else it is going to come again and power him to overlook much more time. Zhegrova probably has simply 20 or half-hour in him proper now, Tudor added.
Two gamers from the Juve Subsequent Gen squad have been included within the touring squad to Rome: goalkeeper Matteo Fuscaldo and heart again Pedro Felipe.
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JUVENTUS PLAYER TO WATCH
Juventus have performed two video games since they returned from the worldwide break. They’ve failed to attain in each of these video games, including to a run of poor type through which a workforce that scored a mixed eight objectives towards Inter Milan and Borussia Dortmund instantly can’t constantly discover the again of the online.
So whereas it appears like an entire guessing recreation when it comes to who’s beginning on the entrance of Tudor’s 3-4-2-1, the supporting two playmakers appears somewhat extra sure.
Let’s simply go forward and discuss one of many guys who will probably be beginning in a type of supporting two locations behind both Dusan Vlahovic or Jonathan David (and even Loïs Openda?).
When he’s on type, Francisco Conceição could make a distinction for Juventus. The factor is, Conceição being on full type has been one thing that hasn’t all the time been current for a Juventus facet that has scored all of 4 objectives since their 4-4 draw with Dortmund six weeks in the past.
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That’s not a superb quantity to hold into any kind of fixture. However that’s very true while you’re attempting to show issues round amidst a horrible run of outcomes, a seven-game winless streak that has seen Juve fail to attain within the final three outings — which have been a draw towards previous buddy Max Allegri and AC Milan in addition to losses to Como and Actual Madrid.
So the place does Conceição match into all of this?
Properly, I believe it’s easy: Juve will get the great and harmful model of Conceição, then the probabilities of them really scoring a aim or two really will increase. It appears onerous to imagine with how Tudor’s squad is taking part in for the time being, however it’s true. The extra likelihood creation there may be, the extra objectives you really can try to rating. It doesn’t matter if it’s Conceição setting issues up or doing the scoring himself, he has proven he can do each.
They only want Good Chico to truly present up on the Olimpico.
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Hopefully that occurs in order that any person by the identify of Kenan Yildiz doesn’t must shoulder all of that. Juventus want any person apart from their younger and intensely gifted No. 10 to do one thing within the attacking third in order that the opposing protection can strive like hell to mark Yildiz out of the sport and Juve haven’t any different place to go for aim creation. Conceição can do it — it’s only a matter of really going out and doing so.
MATCH INFO
When: Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025.
The place: Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy.
Official kickoff time: 8:45 p.m. native time in Italy and throughout Europe, 7:45 p.m. in the UK, 3:45 p.m. Jap time, 2:45 p.m. Central time, 12:45 p.m. Pacific time.
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(Please be aware that the autumn time change goes into impact in Italy on Sunday, thus having kickoff be an hour later than traditional Sunday night time fixtures in sure areas of the world like the USA.)
HOW TO WATCH
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