Juventus turn back to Serie A against Lazio at Allianz Stadium on Sunday, aiming to stabilise their top-four push after a 3-0 Coppa Italia quarter-final loss at Atalanta, while Bremer calls for a strong reaction and statistics underline why the home side remain favourites despite the midweek setback.
The Turin club sit on a solid league run, with just one defeat across their last nine Serie A fixtures and a recent 4-1 victory over Parma, where Bremer surprisingly scored twice, yet the defender insists the performance in the final third must sharpen if Juventus want to avoid repeating the issues exposed by Atalanta.
Bremer highlighted that wasteful finishing has appeared in several recent games and warned that Lazio can punish any repeat, especially
after the Coppa Italia exit, stressing that Juventus must show greater precision and collective focus in attack in front of their own supporters at Allianz Stadium.
"It happened against Cagliari and Lecce too, so we have to improve on taking our chances," Bremer said. "We have just started this new era with the coach, so we are on the right track, even if we made mistakes against Atalanta. We also must apologise to the fans, because a 3-0 result is too much, but we've got to get right back on track from the next game. "
Luciano Spalletti had several options available against Atalanta, bringing on Teun Koopmeiners, Jeremie Boga and Lois Openda, yet the Bergamo side used their bench more effectively, with Kamaldeen Sulemana and Mario Pasalic both scoring and Raoul Bellanova supplying an assist that underlined the difference in impact between the two groups of substitutes.
"Stepping up a level is also down to the way the whole group trains. We have a few defects, as many teams do, but I feel that we are a team," Spalletti added. "We need to recognise these moments of a match that can become decisive, because if you look at the number of chances we had, the result seems like a false reflection of it. We lost 3-0, so it seems odd to say the lads worked hard and put in a good performance. What I didn't like was in the closing stages we all got spread out and tried to find a breakthrough individually, so we lost organisation too much. We lost some unity. "
Juventus Lazio Serie A form and player milestones
Lazio arrive after a 3-2 victory over Genoa on Friday, which lifted Maurizio Sarri's side above Udinese into eighth, and once this league meeting with Juventus is over, Lazio will quickly switch focus to a Coppa Italia quarter-final against holders Bologna, with the winners set to meet Atalanta for a place in the final.
Pedro is due to make a notable personal mark for Lazio, as the forward is set for a 150th Serie A appearance with the club, all recorded from age 34 or older, placing Pedro alongside Javier Zanetti on 227 matches, Samir Handanovic on 161 and Rodrigo Palacio on 153 among foreign players with at least that many late-career games in the competition since 1994-95.
Juventus Lazio Serie A key performers to watch
Bremer has become a central attacking threat for Juventus this season, with involvement in five goals across only 13 Serie A games, scoring three and assisting two, matching the defender's best single-season output from the 2020-21 and 2022-23 campaigns and underlining why Bremer is more than just a defensive presence.
The Brazilian also features in an unusual statistic for defenders, as Bremer and Leo Ostigard, who is on plus two, are the only two backline players in Serie A this season who have scored more goals than the number of times opponents have successfully dribbled past them, reflecting both defensive security and threat in the penalty area.
Juventus Lazio Serie A match prediction and statistics
Recent head-to-head results show a balanced picture, with the last eight Serie A meetings between Juventus and Lazio producing three wins each and two draws, following a longer spell where Juventus collected 12 victories from 15 league clashes with Lazio, alongside one draw and two losses against the same opponents.
At Allianz Stadium, the numbers point strongly towards Juventus, as Spalletti's side have found the net in each of the last 12 home league matches against Lazio, averaging 2.3 goals across that period, and Juventus have also won the previous three home Serie A fixtures against Lazio, a sequence last bettered when they claimed four straight home victories between 2013 and 2017.
Home form in the current campaign further strengthens that picture, because Juventus are one of only two teams still unbeaten at home in Serie A this season, with seven wins and four draws, alongside Napoli, while only Inter on 33 have scored more home goals than Juventus with 23, and in terms of defensive record, Juventus have allowed eight home goals, fewer than every side except Roma on six and Como on seven.
Lazio’s away figures offer a warning for Sarri, despite winning the reverse league fixture 1-0 and remembering that the last Lazio double over Juventus in Serie A occurred in 1942-43, because Sarri's side have scored just six goals across 11 league matches on the road, the joint-lowest away tally this season alongside Lecce, and the last time Lazio had six or fewer goals after 12 away league games was back in the 1989-90 campaign.
| Outcome | OPTA win probability |
|---|---|
| Juventus win | 63.6% |
| Draw | 21.3% |
| Lazio win | 15.2% |
Overall, Juventus enter the match with stronger home form, a solid recent league run and key contributions from Bremer, while Lazio carry confidence from the Genoa result and the earlier win in the reverse fixture, setting up a contest where statistics favour Juventus but recent experience reminds both sides that the outcome is not guaranteed.
