18:05
5′ – Curiosity about Barbieri
Only Verona (9) and Turin (6) have fielded more starters players born since 2001 from Juventus (5) in this Serie A season: Fabio Miretti (2003), Matìas Soulé (2003) Thomas Barbieri (2002 owner today), Enzo Barrenechea (2001) and Nicolò Fagioli (2001, also owner today).
18:01
1′ – SASSUOLO-JUVE BEGINS
The match begins, the first ball belongs to Juve.
17:50
Carnevali: “Frattesi-Juve? There’s nothing”
The CEO of Sassuolo Giovanni Carenevali to Dazn on Frattesi in the pre-race: “It won’t be easy for him, there’s a lot of attention on him, he’s coveted by many clubs, but it’s premature now to talk about the transfer market. There’s nothing concrete with Juventus, we’ll see what happens.”
17:42
Kostic recalls the fire calendar
Kostic to Dazn in the pre-game: “It’s a very important match for us, we need to win. Sassuolo are a good team, they’ve picked up a lot of points in the last 10 games. We have to think match by match, after Sassuolo we’ll have Sporting, then Napoli and Inter.”
17:30
Serie A debut for Barbieri
Allegri launches Tommaso Barbieri (20 years old) born in 2002 on the right wing from 1′, deployed in the role of Cuadrado. For the young Juventus player, who made his debut in the Champions League against PSG on 2 November, it is his absolute debut in Serie A.
17:15
Rabiot chasing Nedved and Marchisio
Adrien Rabiot has scored eight goals in this league and can equal Pavel Nedved (9 in 2002/03), Claudio Marchisio (9 in 2011/12), Sami Khedira (9 in 2017/18) and Arturo Vidal (9 in 2013/14 ), as Juventus midfielder with the most goals scored excluding penalties in a single Serie A season in the three-point-to-win era.
17:02
The official formations
SASSUOLO (4-3-3): Advice; Toljan, Erlic, Tressoldi, Rogerio; Frattesi, Lopez, Henrique; Bajrami, Pinamonti, Lauriente. Trainer: Dionysis.
JUVE (3-5-2): Perine; Danilo, Gatti, Bremer; Barberi, Paredes, Fagioli, Rabiot, Kostic; Milik, Vlahovic. Trainer: Allegri.
16:55
Vlahovic abstinence, but with Sassuolo…
Dusan Vlahovic has scored four Serie A goals against Sassuolo, including a brace in the first leg. However, the Serbian has not scored in any of his last eight games, seven starting from the first minute: it is the first time that he has run out of goals in seven consecutive starts in the competition.
16:40
Numbers and curiosities about Sassuolo-Juve
Juventus is the team against which Sassuolo has lost the most matches in Serie A (14 out of 19 played) and the one against which they have conceded the most goals (47): for the neroverdi only two victories and three draws in the league he only home success dates back to 28 October 2015 (1-0, goal by Nicola Sansone).
This will be the fifth time that Sassuolo and Juventus have faced each other in Serie A from the 30th matchday of the championship onwards: in the previous four – all played at Mapei – both teams have scored (4.3 goals scored on average per game) and the bianconeri are always remained unbeaten (3W, 1N).
Sassuolo have won three of their last four Serie A meetings against opponents in the top seven positions in the table at the start of the day (L1), after having not achieved any successes in the previous nine (D2, L7).
