Match Details
- Date: Sunday, 16 February 2025
- Location: Turin, Italy
- Venue: Allianz Stadium, Turin
- Kick-off time: 19:45 GMT, 20:45 CET, 11:45 PST, 14:45 EST.
- TV/Streaming - UK – TNT Sports, US – CBS/Paramount+
Recent Form
Juventus bounced back from tasting back-to-back defeats to Benfica and Napoli by racking up three successive wins against Empoli, Como and PSV Eindhoven.
Goals from Weston McKennie and substitute Samuel Mbangula have given Juve a slender 2-1 first leg play-off lead over the Dutch giants ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League second leg.
Juve lie fifth in the Serie A table, having racked up 43 points from 24 games. Defending champions Inter sit second with 54 points, are are only a point behind Antonio Conte's Napoli.
After a draw in the Milan derby, Inter played Fiorentina twice in a row. Inter suffer a 3-0 reversal to the Viola, but Simone Inzaghi’s troops gained revenge four days later with a 2-1 win.
Head-to-head
This will be the 184th Serie A meeting between the teams. Juventus have the advantage with 87 wins to Inter’s 49, with 47 games ending in a stalemate.
Old Juve has picked out their ultimate Top 10 games between Juventus and Inter over the years.
These sides last met in October, which resulted a crazy 4-4 draw inside the San Siro. Remarkably, this was the first time since 1961 that eight goals were conceded in a Serie A fixture between the two titans of Italian soccer.
Team news
Center-back Pierre Kalulu remains sidelined following a muscular injury against Benfica in the Champions League. Juve ewcomers Renato Veiga and Lloyd Kelly have deputised in the past few weeks.
Gleison Bremer, Juan Cabal and Arkadiusz Milik are long-term absentees for Motta, while Andrea Cambiaso is missing due to an ankle injury.
Inter face a battle to get key players Marko Arnautovic and Marcus Thuram fit, and should welcome Denzel Dumfries back from suspension.
Players to watch
Juventus - Samuel Mbangula
Samuel Mbangula's rise this season has been one of the standout stories. The Belgian ace made an initial impact at the start of the season.
The 21-year-old winger, who came through the youth academy, is competing with Turkish teenager Kenan Yildiz for minutes. Mbangula became Juventus’ youngest-ever Champions League scorer against PSV, grabbing a late goal in his cameo role as a substitute.
Inter - Lautaro Martinez
The Argentine striker struggled for fitness early on, due to the lack of a pre-season. Then the Nerazzurri captain suffered a goal drought of nearly two months, spurning multiple gilt-edged chances.
Martinez has rekindled his old form in 2025 and has notched with 15 goals from 33 appearances in all competitions. A goal against Juve, which would his 10th Serie A strike this term, would make Martinez the first non-Italian player to hit double digits in six different league seasons for Inter.
Expected line-ups
Juventus possible starting XI:
Di Gregorio; Weah, Gatti, Veiga, Kelly; Luiz, Thuram; Gonzalez, McKennie, Yildiz; Muani.
Inter possible starting XI:
Sommer; Pavard, Acerbi, Bastoni; Dumfries, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco; Martinez, Correa.
Prediction
Inter are flying at the moment, and will have the benefit of an extra day’s rest. They didn't tackle the Champions League play-offs, as they have advancing directly to the last 16.
Juve’s home record, particularly against Inter, may be their saving grace here. In the 91 Serie A home matches Juventus have played against the Nerazzurri, Inter have lost 62 of them, with Juve the side they have tasted defeat to the most in the road in league action.
Juventus are unbeaten in 10 of their last 11 home matches against Inter in Serie A. Inter’s sole success was a 1-0 victorym courtesy of Hakan Calhanoglu's penalty at the Allianz Stadium in April 2022. The Bianconeri, who have become draw specialists under Motta, could take advantage of Arnautovic and Thuram being big doubts to start to squeeze a share of the spoils.
Old Juve predicts1-1.