This Friday night we have a cracker in the Serie A as two big boys meet up in Turin! Juventus host Inter Milan. Juventus have dominated the league yet again this season with an 8 pt advantage at the top and 11 pt advantage over the 3rd placed Inter who themselves are having a decent season. Juventus are currently carrying a winning streak and are looking unplayable at times, meanwhile Inter have hit a bit of a rut having won just 1 of their last 5 in all competitions. Despite that, this shapes up to be a very intense and entertaining game and maybe just maybe Inter could inflict Juventus their first league loss, and they’ll definitely be thinking, why not? Juventus themselves will obviously seek to separate themselves even further away at the top with a win here.
Key Facts
Juventus have a 13W 1D 0L in the Serie A while having the best attacking and defensive records in the league with 31 GS and 8 GA. Pure dominance.
Juventus have won 4 consecutive games keeping a clean sheet in each of them in all competitions.
Ronaldo has scored 7 goals in his last 7 Serie A apps and has a total of 10 league goals already.
Juventus have been very good in big games in the league beating Lazio 2-0, Napoli 3-1, AC Milan 0-2 and Fiorentina 0-3.
Juventus are unbeaten against Inter in 6 straight home games. 4W 2D. They’ve kept 4 straight home clean sheets against Inter.
Inter have only won 1 of their last 5 games in all competitions. 2D 2L.
Mauro Icardi has scored 8 goals in his last 7 league apps
Mauro Icardi has scored against Fiorentina, Milan, Lazio x2, Atalanta and Roma this season. Big game player.
Inter have struggled in big away games this season having lost 4-1 to Atalanta, drawn 2-2 with Roma, also losing to Spurs and Barcelona in Europe. They did win at Lazio 0-3 though.
14 of Inter’s 19 games this season have had a goal in the final 15 minutes.
Inter have conceded 9 goals in their last 5 away games.
The past 5 meetings between these clubs have seen 43 bookings (2 reds) which is an average of 8.6 bookings per game. FEISTY.
4 of the past 5 meetings in Turin between these sides had under 2.5 goals.
Team News
Juventus: Alex Sandro and Sami Khedira are both unlikely to feature in this match meanwhile Emre Can has returned to training and will hope to return, however is unlikely to start in such a big game after missing some time. Last week, Allegri went with a 4-2-3-1 bringing Cuadrado into the starting lineup over Pjanic and it will be interesting to see whether he’ll go with it again or will he revert back to 4-3-3 bringing Pjanic back into the midfield alongside Matuidi and Bentancur. The backline is likely to stay the same while up front we can expect Ronaldo, Dybala and Mandzukic all to start together for sure.
Inter Milan: Dalbert and Nainggolan are both questionable to play as they’ll have to face late fitness tests. Otherwise everybody else is available for Luciano Spalletti. Last week we saw Politano, Vrsaljko, and Vecino start on the bench and they’ll all be hoping to return into the starting lineup for this match.
Betting Tips and Predictions
Cards over is the best bet here. Anything up to 6.0 cards total is worth the taking given the history of these clubs playing each other. This is going to be a physical game between two clubs who don’t like each other and that’s why there are so many bookings between these sides. Even a red card to be shown is worth a try with low stakes. The other pick for the game is Juve -1 AH at 1.98. Juventus are definitely the superior side, they’ve dominated the big teams in Serie A this season, whereas Inter have struggled playing big games away from home being quite leaky defensively too. Juve just have the better all around team for this game and should come away with a pretty solid win. A goal to be scored between 75-90 min is also worth the try given that this occurs very often in Inter’s games. We anticipate a 2-0 win for Juve here.
Match Odds (Unibet)
Juventus Win – 1.56
Draw – 3.90
Inter Milan Win – 6.50
KICK OFF – 7th December 2018 – 7:30pm UK Time
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