Dusan Vlahovic could be benched against his former club Fiorentina today, while his compatriot Luka Jovic is expected to start for the Tuscans.
It kicks off at 14.00 UK time at the Stadio Artemio Franchi.
It’s one of the biggest rivalries in Italian football.
La Viola is Viola without Gaetano Castrovilli, Alfred Duncan and Jack Bonaventura. Nico Gonzalez is back but goes to the bench. Sofian Amrabat returns from minute 1. Pietro Terracciano or Pierluigi Gollini in goal.
Fiorentina won the last meeting with Juve at the Franchi in May and could win two successive games against the Bianconeri for the first time since 1998.
Fiorentina haven’t scored in the last three Serie A games, the last time they didn’t find the net in four consecutive matches was in November 2020, while the last time they didn’t score in two successive home games was in May 2019.
Juventus are without the injured Federico Chiesa, Paul Pogba, Adrien Rabiot and Wojciech Szczesny, but Angel Di Maria is ready to start. Juan Cuadrado is favourite over Mattia De Sciglio in defence and Bremer over Federico Gatti. It’s raining in Florence this morning so the pitch could not be ideal.
Dusan Vlahovic may start on the bench ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League clash with PSG in Paris.
The Serbian found the net in the last two Serie A games for Juventus and hasn’t scored in three successive games since moving to Turin in January.
Juventus collected three clean sheets in the first four games of the season for the third time in the last 15 years. However, they haven’t scored in the last two away games in Serie A and the last time they didn’t score in three consecutive away games was in 1998.
Fiorentina-Juventus – probable line-ups
Fiorentina (4-3-3): Gollini; Dodo, Milenkovic, Igor, Biraghi; Barak, Amrabat, Maleh; Ikone, Jovic, Sottil.
Juventus (4-3-3): Perin; Cuadrado, Bremer, Danilo, Alex Sandro; Locatelli, Paredes, McKennie; Di Maria, Milik, Kostic.