It’s a clash of two top-four teams at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, as defending Serie A champions Juventus look to continue their unbeaten start to the league season against fourth-placed Lazio.The champions have made an unbeaten start to the Serie A season, with six wins and one draw from their seven matches. They won their opening six games, and have won all four of their home matches without conceding a goal.
Juventus
Despite their great start, they will be bitterly disappointed to have thrown away a seventh consecutive victory in their most recent fixture. Leading 2-0 at Atalanta after 24 minutes, they looked to be storming to another win. However, the home side fought back and earned a 2-2 draw. Juventus will be looking to get back to winning ways here and prevent current league leaders Napoli from extending their lead at the top. Recent League Form (Last 6) – DWWWWW.
Lazio
Lazio started the season with a below-par goalless draw against newly promoted SPAL, but have won five of their seven league games and only lost once. That defeat came at home against table-toppers Napoli, in a match where they led after half an hour. Their most recent league match was a 6-1 demolition job of Sassuolo to make it back to back victories and keep them in fourth position in the table. Away from home is where Lazio have excelled this season, winning all three league matches on their travels. It will be a tough trip to Juventus here, but the Lazio players will be confident of getting a positive result from it. Recent League Form (Last 6) – WWLWWW.
Head to Head
Juventus hold a big head to head advantage over Lazio, winning more than 50% of meetings. In 57 meetings since December 1993, Juventus have won 31. Lazio have 14 victories, and 12 have been draws. In recent years, Juventus have had an even bigger advantage. Up to the end of last season, Juventus had won 12 of the last 14 meetings with the other two finishing level. In fact, Lazio had only one won meeting in the last 24. However, that changed in August when Lazio won the Super Cup 3-2 thanks to a 93rd minute winner. Despite that recent win, Lazio haven’t beaten Juventus in the league since December 2003. Juventus have won 19, and there have been 6 draws, in 25 Serie A meetings since then. Juventus have won the last 6 league meetings without conceding a goal.
Betting Odds and Predictions
As you would expect, Juventus are a strong betting favourite to win this match. Betway have the champions priced at 4/7 for the victory, with Lazio at 5/1, and the draw is 3/1. Juventus are that strong a favourite they are a narrow 7/5 starting with -1 in the handicap market. The champions haven’t conceded a goal at home this season, whilst Lazio have netted eight goals in three away league games. This makes number of goals in the match hard to predict, and both teams to score is even harder. Lazio have failed to score in the last six league meetings with Juventus, but netted three in the Super Cup in August.
This is probably the reason Betway have ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ both priced at 17/20 in the Both Teams to Score market. We don’t believe the visitors will find the net, so would say 6/4 on Juventus winning to nil is a solid bet at fairly decent odds. The hosts to keep a clean sheet, regardless of the result, is priced at 23/20. Juventus have led at half time in five of their last six victories over Lazio and are priced at 13/10 in the HT/FT market here.
Top Betting Tips
Our top betting tip for this match is Juventus to win, priced at 4/7 with Betway. Next best, and a better value bet, is Juventus in the HT/FT market at odds of 13/10 with the same bookmaker.