Match Report
1st against 2nd, but level on points: Juventus and Ajax both had 12. Juventus had been under-performing their position — 9th on five-round form against 1st in the table. Per game in the league, Juventus were scoring 1.5 and conceding 0.67, Ajax 1.83 and 0.83, against a competition average of 1.43 goals per team per game.
Ajax carried a 5-game unbeaten run into this.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 3 Juventus wins, 0 for Ajax, 2 draws, at 1.4 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 20% of the wins in this fixture. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 20% of the meetings went over two goals.
The match was played at Allianz Stadium in Torino (capacity 400). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 1-2.