Juventus vs Fiorentina - prediction, team news, lineups

Two wins distant from a spot successful adjacent season's Champions League, Juventus volition play the last location crippled of their 2025-26 run erstwhile Fiorentina wage a sojourn connected Sunday.

Only 3 points abstracted the 2nd to fifth-ranked clubs successful Serie A, and Juve beryllium 3rd earlier the penultimate matchday. 

Match preview

Juventus person arrived astatine a captious signifier successful the combat to scope Europe's apical competition, and - crucially - they clasp their destiny wrong their ain hands.

One constituent supra some AC Milan and fifth-placed Roma - with Como 2 further down - Luciano Spalletti's broadside tin seal a top-four decorativeness by winning their 2 remaining fixtures. 

Despite missing a hatful of chances and drafting the ire of their frustrated caput coach, Juve bushed Lecce 1-0 past week, erstwhile Dusan Vlahovic scored the victor aft lone 12 seconds.

Unbeaten successful 11 games crossed each competitions, the Bianconeri besides boast the champion antiaircraft grounds of immoderate squad successful Europe's apical 5 leagues implicit the past 9 matchdays. 

While they whitethorn deficiency immoderate sharpness up front, Juventus person conceded conscionable doubly during that period, keeping an awesome 7 cleanable sheets successful the process.

So, with lone 1 league decision successful Turin this season, Spalletti's men volition expect to instrumentality attraction of concern connected Sunday.

Precedent besides suggests Juve should commencement arsenic beardown favourites, having mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 17 location games against Fiorentina; the sole reverse was erstwhile Vlahovic scored for the Viola successful a daze 3-0 victory.

Yet, aft losing 3 consecutive meetings without adjacent scoring, Fiorentina are unbeaten successful the clubs' past 3 contests, including a 1-1 location gully successful November.

Though they yet confirmed endurance past clip out, with a grim goalless gully against Genoa, their fans volition request maximum effort against Juventus - 1 of the Tuscan team's bitterest foes.

After an atrocious commencement to their 2025-26 campaign, Fiorentina's main nonsubjective switched from qualifying for Europe to staying afloat successful Italy's apical tier, and they person yet done truthful with 2 rounds remaining.

The Viola person already accrued 25 points successful the 2nd fractional of this season, 12 much than passim the first, and that is the biggest summation crossed Serie A.

Despite rescuing a squad that were stuck successful the driblet portion connected his arrival, caput manager Paolo Vanoli is inactive expected to depart, truthful helium volition beryllium keen to motion disconnected connected a high.

However, aft 3 draws and a 4-0 decision against Roma, Vanoli's broadside volition question to Turin without a triumph successful 4 games since exiting the Conference League quarter-finals.

Juventus Serie A form:

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Fiorentina Serie A form:

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Fiorentina signifier (all competitions):

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Team News

Only Juan Cabal and Arkadiusz Milik are ruled retired for Juventus, truthful Spalletti could sanction a precise akin XI to that which triumphed successful Lecce.

After being benched astatine the Via del Mare, Khephren Thuram whitethorn displace Teun Koopmeiners successful midfield, but nary different changes are expected.

Recently returned from a agelong layoff, Vlahovic has conscionable scored successful back-to-back matches; however, the ex-Fiorentina striker has yet to nett a league extremity against the Viola since leaving.

Set to enactment Vlahovic from the near flank, Kenan Yildiz is inactive Juve's apical Serie A scorer with 10 goals this term, contempt struggling with genu inflammation of late.

Meanwhile, erstwhile Juve antheral Moise Kean whitethorn miss retired connected a instrumentality to Turin due to the fact that of his ain ongoing contented - a troublesome shin problem.

In amended quality for Vanoli, Kean's lawman Roberto Piccoli has resumed afloat training, truthful rookie striker Riccardo Braschi volition astir apt instrumentality to the bench.

Juventus imaginable starting lineup:

Di Gregorio; Kalulu, Bremer, Kelly, Cambiaso; Thuram, Locatelli; Conceicao, McKennie, Yildiz; Vlahovic

Fiorentina imaginable starting lineup:

De Gea; Dodo, Pongracic, Ranieri, Gosens; Fagioli; Parisi, Ndour, Mandragora, Solomon; Piccoli

We say: Juventus 1-0 Fiorentina

Between them, these sides person kept 12 cleanable sheets successful their past 18 Serie A matches, truthful a reasonably choky contention could beryllium connected the cards.

Juventus person much firepower and greater motivation; present mathematically harmless and waiting for the summer, Fiorentina's caller tally of 1 extremity from 4 games says it all.

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