Juventus seek clean sheet record

By Football Italia staff

Juventus can set a new Serie A clean sheet record if they don’t concede against Verona this afternoon.

The Bianconeri have managed 22 games this season without conceding, which has already equalled the record.

Juve themselves achieved that feat in both 2013-14 and 2015-16, and Milan managed it in 1993-94, when Serie A was still 18 teams.

That record is all the more remarkable given the Old Lady started the season looking unusually shaky.

In the first 13 weeks of the season, Juventus kept five clean sheets, conceding a total of 14 Serie A goals.

That run culminated in a 3-2 defeat at Sampdoria, and since then they’ve conceded only a further nine goals in 24 games.

That defence has been the foundation of the Bianconeri’s seven Scudetti in a row, with 143 clean sheets over the past seven seasons.

That’s 47 more than any team has managed in the same period, and today Serie A’s best defence faces the league’s worst attack, with Verona managing only 29 goals in 38 games.

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