Inter vs Juventus prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2024-02-03 19:45.
Recent Super Cup champions Inter Milan celebrated their triumphant return to Italy with a 1-0 victory over top-four hopefuls Fiorentina and will enter the 251st official Derby d’Italia with a one point advantage over Juventus. Inter also have a game in hand over their closest title rivals and enter this crucial clash in superb form after amassing a league-high 50 goals and 54 points across the opening 21 rounds – the most since 2006/07.
Head coach Simone Inzaghi will be happy to welcome back Hakan Calhanoglu and Nicoló Barella upon their return from suspension, with Inter looking to extend their five-game winning home run in Serie A, including four victories ’to nil’. Subsequently they seem well positioned to begin correcting some unwanted recent history with Juve in which they won just one of the last six league H2Hs (D2, L3), conceding the opening goal in each of the last three.
Juventus threw away the golden opportunity of starting this match ahead of their opponents in the standings when they were held to a 1-1 draw at home against relegation-threatened Empoli, after having ten men on the pitch for more than 70 minutes. That may present their manager Massimiliano Allegri with yet another selection headache, something he has become accustomed to in charge of a team that has collected more red cards (seven) than all but two clubs since the start of last season.
Allegri ramped up the mind games during the week when declaring Inter the ’absolute Scudetto favorites’, but it would be foolish to write off his own side after they started the new calendar with 19 goals across their six competitive outings (W5, D1). There’s plenty else to suggest they’ll be right up for this important away trip, such as an unbeaten record and three clean sheets from all three Serie A away trips to clubs starting this round in the top six (W2, D1).
Players to watch: Inter’s Lautaro MartĂnez has scored four goals across his last three Serie A matches, with three arriving in the opening 15 minutes. Visiting Dušan Vlahović returned six goals in January’s four league matches – the most of any player across the five traditional European leagues – scoring four of those after the break.
Hot stat: Only three of the last 14 Serie A H2Hs have produced at least three goals scored.