Inter vs Juventus prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2023-03-18 19:45.
With 55 Serie A (SA) titles between them, Inter Milan (19) host Juventus (36) with a massive opportunity to cement their spot in the top-four. With it looking highly likely four sides are battling it out for three UEFA Champions League places behind runaway leaders Napoli, two of the sides in that mix, Roma and Lazio, play each other this weekend which enables Inter to open up a respectable gap on at least one of those sides with a victory here.
Inter should be the fresher of the two sides after an extra couple days rest from their midweek European exploits, a 0-0 draw against Porto, which despite being enough to send them through, did extend their poor run to just one win from four in all competitions (D1, L2). All those failures to win came on the road though and Inter are a different animal at home, winning 15 of their last 17 SA home matches.
Juventus might like to think they’ll have something to say about Inter’s home dominance on the back of nine wins in their last 11 matches (D1, L1) which has placed them on the periphery of the battle for European places, but they haven’t tasted a league victory against Inter at the San Siro since 2019. There will likely be a burning sense of injustice coming into this clash for Juve, who will likely feel they have a point to prove knowing that without their 15-point deduction they would actually sit above Inter in the table!
Even knowing their last six SA games to follow a European game all ended in victory, boss Massimiliano Allegri will expect a reaction from his side’s 2-0 victory over Freiburg in midweek after blasting their second half performance, insisting they made a “lot of mistakes”. Those mistakes are undoubtedly something Juventus will need to eradicate if they are to secure a first SA H2H double with accompanying clean sheets since 1976/77.
Players to watch: Ahead of the round, no player has scored more SA home goals in 2023 than the four managed by Lautaro MartĂnez, all of which either opened or closed the scoring. Juventus' Adrien Rabiot is one of those players he is tied with and the Frenchman opened the scoring in Juve’s 2-0 win in the reverse H2H.
Hot stat: Inter are one of just two SA sides not to trail a home league game at half-time this season. (HT: W8, D5).