Preview: Juventus vs Lecce

The Juventus Men's First Team begin 2026 with a match at the Allianz Stadium against Lecce on Serie A Matchday 18.

The Salentini start the weekend in the bottom half of the table.

Let’s get up to speed ahead of Saturday evening’s 18:00 CET kick-off.

Interesting Facts

• Lecce have lost 25 Serie A matches against Juventus (4W, 9D), with only Roma (26) and Inter (30) inflicting more defeats on the Apulians in the top flight.

• Juventus have scored at least one goal in each of their last 10 Serie A games against Lecce.

• The most frequent score in this fixture is 1-0 in favour of Juventus, the result of seven encounters, the most recent of which was on September 26, 2023 (goal by Arkadiusz Milik).

• Juventus have won seven of their last eight matches (1D) in all competitions: as many wins as in their previous 20 (8D, 5L).

• Kenan Yildiz, with 15 goals scored in Serie A, has equalled Alessandro Del Piero in sixth place among Juventus' top scorers before turning 21. The Turkish striker (six goals, four assists) is the only player born in 2005 or later to have been involved in at least 10 goals in Serie A this season.
• Since the start of the 2024/25 Serie A season, Juventus have conceded an average of 0.4 goals per game with Bremer on the pitch, a figure much lower than the 1.1 recorded without him.

Opposition Focus

• Lecce have failed to score in six of their 10 Serie A games since mid-October; during this period, no team has failed to score in more games in Italy's top flight (Pisa also has six).

• Lecce have lost four of their seven away games in this Serie A season (2W, 1D); in the previous five seasons in the top flight.

• Lecce have conceded six headed goals in this league campaign, with only Hellas Verona worse off with seven so far in Serie A 2025/26.

• Lecce are the only team not to have conceded a goal in the first 15 minutes of play this season, while in the last 30 minutes of play, they have conceded 12 goals, a record shared with Hellas Verona.

• This season, Nikola Stulic has played 947 minutes and taken 15 shots in total, while in the previous Serie A season, Lecce striker Nikola Krstovic attempted 45 shots, three times as many, in his first 968 minutes played.

• Tiago Gabriel's first Serie A match was on 12 April 2025 away against Juventus; the Lecce player is the defender who has engaged in (90) and won (63) the most aerial duels in Serie A this season.