Turin - Juventus host Genoa in a giornata 21 Serie A match 2017-2018 at the Allianz Stadium on Tuesday (23/1/2018) early morning hrs.
Juventus will play against Genoa without five injured players. The five players are Benedikt Howedes, Paulo Dybala, Juan Cuadrado, Claudio Marchisio, and Gianluigi Buffon.
Losing a number of important players would be a big problem for Juventus. However, with players ready to play, the Bianconeri will still aim for victory in order to continue to compete with Napoli at the top of the standings up to 21st week ahead only one point ahead.
Massimiliano Allegri still has Wojciech Szczesny who will escort the goal. Meanwhile, Gonzalo Higuain will be the spearhead in the company of Mario Mandzukic and Douglas Costa.
However, Genoa come to Allianz Stadium not to play surrender and handed over the points to the home team. Although currently in 14th position in Serie A standings, Genoa are determined to steal points.
"The way to win points in Turin is with character, we have to show great performance coming from hard work We have to play as a team We may not play beautiful but we are one team," Genoa coach David Ballardini said.
In the last eight meetings the two teams, Juventus are far superior. Juventus suffered only one defeat from Genoa at Genoa headquarters in November 2016. In seven other matches, Juventus won.
In addition, Juventus dominance is also seen in six of their last seven games in Serie A which ends with a clean sheet. It was also with the record, the Bianconeri conceded only once, when they travel to the Hellas Verona headquarters and win 3-1.
Meanwhile, Genoa won only two wins in their last five Serie A matches. Despite winning 1-0 or Sassuolo in their last game, Juventus are not easily defeated opponents, especially when playing at Allianz Stadium.
Player's prediction:
Juventus (4-3-3): Wojciech Szczesny (goalkeeper); Alex Sandro, Giorgio Chiellini, Medhi Benatia, Andrea Barzagli (back); Blaise Matuidi, Miralem Pjanic, Sami Khedira (center); Mario Mandzukic, Gonzalo Higuain, Douglas Costa (front).
Coach: Massimiliano Allegri.
Genoa (3-5-2): Mattia Perin (goalkeeper); Armando Izzo, Nicolas Spolli, Luca Rossettini (back); Aleandro Rosi, Andrea Bertolacci, Miguel Veloso, Luca Rigoni, Diego Laxalt (center); Goran Pandev, Adel Taarabt (front).
Coach: Davide Ballardini.