Juventus vs Parma Preview & Prediction | 2024-25 Italian Serie A
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It has been a bright but frankly bizarre start to the season for Juventus this weekend as they face a Parma side that, following promotion last year, had started well before fading in the last few weeks.
KICK-OFF DATE/TIME: Wednesday 30th October, 2024 - UK – 7:45pm / US ET – 3:45pm / US PT – 12:45pm
HOW TO WATCH ON TV: UK – TNT Sports / US – Select matches will be televised on CBS Sports so it is worth checking their schedule
HOW TO WATCH ONLINE: UK – Discovery+ & OneFootball / US – Paramount+
JUVENTUS PREVIEW: LOOKING FOR THE REAL NEW JUVE
Juventus are trying to make themselves more modern and progressive and dynamic with a younger squad as well as fresher approach. The Old Lady have tasked Thiago Motta with implementing that and they have started well in terms of the style, even though it has produced three goalless draws in nine Serie A matches.
They shared their fifth draw of the season at the weekend but in very different circumstances as an extremely topsy turvy affair against defending champions Internazionale at San Siro finished 4-4. They are the only unbeaten side in Serie A with their progressive style but have generally lacked precision in attack.
PARMA PREVIEW: PECCHIA’S PRETTY PARMA
Last season, Fabio Pecchia led Parma to promotion back to the Italian top-flight with an impressive and entertaining, progressive style of football. He reportedly turned down several other jobs in the summer to attack this season with Parma and they do begin this weekend sitting outside of the bottom three and the relegation places.
The visitors come into this one, though, having won one of their opening nine matches so far this season and no win in their last seven games in Serie A. Their most recent outing saw them share a third successive draw as Gabriel Charpentier scored a late equaliser for Parma against Empoli at the Ennio Tardini at the weekend.
JUVENTUS TEAM NEWS: KEY ISSUES
A trio of summer signings are unavailable due to injury for Juventus at the moment with Douglas Luiz, Teun Koopmeiners and Nicolo Gonzalez all sidelined for the Old Lady.
Key defender Bremer is also unavailable with an ACL injury, whilst Paul Pogba is reportedly negotiating the termination of his contract as his suspension for doping comes to an end.
PREDICTED XI (4-2-3-1): Di Gregorio; Cambiaso, Kalulu, Danilo, Juan Cabal; McKennie, Locatelli; Conceicao, Fagioli, Weah; Vlahovic
UNAVAILABLE: Bremer (Injured), Douglas Luiz (Injured), Pogba (Suspended), Koopmeiners (Injured), Gonzalez (Injured), Milik (Injured)
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PARMA TEAM NEWS: STILL NO YORDAN OSORIO
Colombia international defender Yordan Osorio has enjoyed an impressive 12 months or so on a personal level but he remains out injured for the home team.
As well as the South American centre-back, the visitors are dealing with a couple of other absentees as both Alessandro Circati and Mateusz Kowalski are out injured.
PREDICTED XI (4-1-4-1): Suzuki; Coulibaly, Del Prato, Balogh, Valeri; Adrian Bernabe; Man, Sohm, Hernani, Cancellieri; Bonny
UNAVAILABLE: Yordan Osorio (Injured), Circati (Injured), Kowalski (Injured)
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JUVENTUS VS PARMA PREDICTION
Despite the fact that Juventus have had three goalless draws in nine Serie A matches as well as a couple of other frustrating and unconvincing performances, they are much better to watch generally and remain unbeaten so have to see it as a positive start with room for improvement. Parma did begin well but pressure is now growing on Pecchia. They will believe they can get at the Bremer-less Juve defence but the hosts remain favourites.
JUVENTUS VS PARMA TIP: JUVENTUS TO WIN & BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
