Lazio vs. Juventus match preview: Time, TV schedule, and how to watch the Serie A

Juventus are all of seven video games into their 2025-26 Serie A season, however their first journey to the Italian capital of the brand new marketing campaign feels slightly extra tenuous than issues most likely needs to be at this level of the yr.

Nicely, it truly is fairly easy: Juventus are within the midst of a winless run of kind that we haven’t seen on the membership in fairly some time. It’s not only one or two managers in the past, both. It’s a run of kind that hasn’t seen the Bianconeri not win any of their final seven video games that we haven’t seen from Juventus within the final 16 years — a span of time that goes all the way in which again to even earlier than Antonio Conte confirmed again up in Turin and turned issues into the beginnings of a decade of home dominance.

So perhaps it’s slightly ironic that the following membership up on the schedule is managed by the final man to win the Serie A title at Juventus. Possibly it’s slightly bit merciless as properly contemplating the present state of Juventus and the way they’ve gone from beginning robust with three straight wins to not successful a recreation in six weeks.

Both means, Juventus head to the Italian capital to face a Lazio facet on Sunday night time that hasn’t precisely started the season all that properly in Maurizio Sarri’s return to the membership. Juventus sit in seventh place — a transparent signal that the three straight wins below Igor Tudor to start the season really feel like ages in the past. Lazio, in an excellent worse standing, are twelfth and have solely received certainly one of their final 5 fixtures. It’s a gathering that not so way back was a battle for a Champions League spot.

Now, although, as Tudor could or is probably not combating for his job, it’s a matchup between two golf equipment who’re simply attempting to get one thing getting into the appropriate course after poor early-season runs of kind.

Throughout his pre-match press convention on Saturday, Tudor stated that “the emotions after Madrid are largely optimistic” regardless of the 1-0 loss to Actual Madrid within the Champions League, a defeat that noticed Juve drop to twenty fifth within the league section desk. If the UCL league section had been to have ended this week, Juve wouldn’t even be in one of many 16 play-off spots, as a substitute watching the remainder of the competitors from house.

It’s simply the most recent chapter on this seven-game run that has seen issues go south in a rush. And now we wait to see if Juventus can truly get a win and put an finish to it this weekend or see it stretch on for an additional few days earlier than their first midweek Serie A motion of the season.

After all, any additional limping forward on this present state received’t assist Tudor’s case that he can get issues rotated and again in the appropriate course. In a means, he’s attempting to do one thing that he already did through the springtime when issues had been such a large number following the firing of Thiago Motta. This time round, although, Tudor has attempt to repair the issues that he’s been an element in creating quite than simplifying issues after any person else created the mess.

And they are going to be attempting to do it towards a Lazio facet which have recorded back-to-back attracts in two very completely different sorts of the way. The primary got here within the type of a 3-3 draw with a beforehand struggling Torino facet that solely occurred due to a PK within the … checks notes … 102nd minute. Per week later, Lazio performed to a scoreless draw with Atalanta, a squad that has out of the blue hit the skids quite a bit like Juve has results-wise.

It’s laborious to say the place this Lazio group is in comparison with Juventus to start Sarri 2.0. They didn’t have any kind of switch marketing campaign this summer season due to a switch ban. They’re reportedly coping with loads of monetary points, and on the sphere they’re not taking part in properly on any kind of constant foundation.

Then once more, it’s not like the present state of Juventus is a lot better. Tudor wants a win for the sake of his job safety. Juve want the win for the sake of their confidence. And their standing within the desk, in fact. It’s bizarre to suppose that Juve might truly be simply three factors off the Serie A lead in the event that they do beat Lazio on Sunday night time

The catch is that they must beat Lazio. And successful is one thing Juventus hasn’t achieved in any respect the final month and a half, so let’s see how all of that goes on the Olimpico.

Juventus have performed two video games since they returned from the worldwide break. They’ve failed to attain in each of these video games, including to a run of poor kind during which a group that scored a mixed eight targets towards Inter Milan and Borussia Dortmund out of the blue can’t constantly discover the again of the web.

So whereas it looks like an entire guessing recreation by way of who’s beginning on the entrance of Tudor’s 3-4-2-1, the supporting two playmakers appears slightly extra sure.

Let’s simply go forward and speak about one of many guys who will seemingly be beginning in a type of supporting two locations behind both Dusan Vlahovic or Jonathan David (and even Loïs Openda?).

When he’s on kind, Francisco Conceição could make a distinction for Juventus. The factor is, Conceição being on full kind has been one thing that hasn’t at all times been current for a Juventus facet that has scored all of 4 targets since their 4-4 draw with Dortmund six weeks in the past.

That’s not quantity to hold into any kind of fixture. However that’s very true if you’re attempting to show issues round amidst a horrible run of outcomes, a seven-game winless streak that has seen Juve fail to attain within the final three outings — which have been a draw towards outdated buddy Max Allegri and AC Milan in addition to losses to Como and Actual Madrid.

So the place does Conceição match into all of this?

Nicely, I believe it’s easy: Juve will get the nice and harmful model of Conceição, then the possibilities of them truly scoring a aim or two truly will increase. It appears laborious to imagine with how Tudor’s squad is taking part in for the time being, however it’s true. The extra probability creation there’s, the extra targets you truly can attempt to rating. It doesn’t matter if it’s Conceição setting issues up or doing the scoring himself, he has proven he can do each.

They only want Good Chico to really present up on the Olimpico.

Hopefully that occurs in order that any person by the title of Kenan Yildiz doesn’t must shoulder all of that. Juventus want any person apart from their younger and intensely gifted No. 10 to do one thing within the attacking third in order that the opposing protection can attempt like hell to mark Yildiz out of the sport and Juve haven’t any different place to go for aim creation. Conceição can do it — it’s only a matter of really going out and doing so.

When: Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025.

The place: Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy.

Official kickoff time: 8:45 p.m. native time in Italy and throughout Europe, 7:45 p.m. in the UK, 3:45 p.m. Jap time, 2:45 p.m. Central time, 12:45 p.m. Pacific time.

(Please notice that the autumn time change goes into impact in Italy on Sunday, thus having kickoff be an hour later than regular Sunday night time fixtures in sure areas of the world like america.)

Tv: Fox Deportes (United States); TLN (Canada); TNT Sports activities 1 (United Kingdom).

On-line/Streaming: Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community, DAZN USA, Amazon Prime Video, Fox One, Fox Sports activities app, foxsports.com (United States); DAZN Canada; fuboTV Canada; Amazon Prime Video; Fubo Sports activities Community Canada (Canada); DAZN UK (United Kingdom); DAZN Italia, Sky Go Italia (Italy).

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