Roma vs Juventus Serie A Match Preview or Key Statistics 🖤
After winning 3-1 in their last game in Serie A last season, Roma could win two consecutive matches in the Italian top-flight against Juventus for the first time since 1995.
Roma and Juventus have drawn only one of their last 10 Serie A meetings (0-0 in May 2018) -there's been four wins for the Giallorossi and five for the Bianconeri in this period.
Juventus won at the Olimpico last season against Roma; they last won two consecutive away Serie A games against the Giallorossi in 2011. Juventus have won their opening two league matches in each of their last four seasons, last failing to do so back in 2015/16, with their MD2 game a 2-1 defeat to Roma.
Roma failed to score in their first Serie A game this season against Verona; the last time the Giallorossi failed to score in their opening two matches without scoring in the Italian top-flight was back in 1992 (vs Pescara and Genoa).
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Juventus are winless in their last four league away games, last enduring a longer run without win on the road in August 2010 (seven games). Juventus (66%) and Roma (60%) are two of the four teams to have had the most possession in Serie A this season, along with Sassuolo (68%) and Napoli (61 %).
Edin Dzeko is one goal behind becoming the joint-5th top scorer for Roma in Serie A history, scoring 78 times so far (Rodolfo Volk is in 5th currently with 79).
Cristiano Ronaldo could score for the fourth time in his career in his first two games of a Top-5 league season, after 2009/10, 2011 /12 and 2014/15 in La Liga with Real Madrid.
Dejan Kulusevski is the youngest player to have scored on his debut with Juventus in Serie A since Marcelo Zalayeta in 1998.
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