Juventus vs Hellas Verona

On Monday Juventus intends to defend their position in the top four of Serie A against Hellas Verona at their home stadium.

Juventus currently focuses on Serie A only after following their Champions League elimination by losing the Coppa Italia while their visitors Verona fights for Serie A existence.

Juventus controlled ball possession against Serie A cellar-dwellers Empoli following the worst defeat in recent memory from Atalanta BC but failed to advance through the Coppa Italia quarterfinal match.

A stunning strike by Khephren Thuram rescued Juve from defeat during the ninety minutes of play at Verona but they subsequently lost via five penalties to three during the shootout.

The cup defense concluded sadly for Juve when they suffered a home defeat against a weakened Empoli squad that recently lost six of their previous seven contests so the team no longer has any opportunity for silverware this season. The club needs to focus on maintaining their position among the top four clubs while handling the rumors surrounding Technical Director Thiago Motta.

The Bianconeri earned a Champions League qualification place for next year by winning four Serie A games in February.

Vlahovic delivered Juventus their league points with his early goal in Cagliari that helped them maintain their position in fourth place while making his Serie A start of 2025. The rest of the week brought events that quickly transformed the positive tone into a negative one.

Another defeat in a match that Juve consistently wins against Verona in Turin could become Motta's last on the job.
Leagues aside Verona dropped five of their past six competitions against Juventus without scoring and ended up losing 3-0 in the same exchange between these teams this year.

No member of the current Gialloblu team has ever scored a league goal against Juventus; in fact, the last Gialloblu player to score at the Allianz Stadium was Andrea Favilli, back in October 2020.

Even though history is against them, Paolo Zanetti's team will be encouraged by their victory over Fiorentina, a European contender, last week, when Antoine Bernede provided a priceless stoppage-time goal.

That three-point haul significantly increased Hellas' prospects of surviving, even though they had only scored twice and won one of their previous seven Serie A games.

Verona has won three of their past six away games, which is as many as they had won in the previous 25 league games, despite the fact that they haven't won back-to-back games in almost a year. Thus, they may yet hope to defeat struggling Juventus.