It's Europa League time and the hopeful contenders are Juventus and SC Freiburg

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Competition: Europe Europa League
Competition: Thu 09.March
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Juventus Training Center (41507 seats)

The first of two encounters in the Europa League Round of 16, as the hometeam Juventus will try to edge SC Freiburg in their own ballpark.

There have been little to rest for the home side, as they performed in a Serie A fixture only four days earlier. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Roma.

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Juventus form and stats

Last season, Juventus's Champions League journey ended in the group stage.

30 points is a decent return from 13 Serie A games here at Juventus Training Center for Juventus. The data says 9 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.

Juventus are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Roma. Juventus could not believe their lack of luck in the Roma match, as they hit the posts three times in the 0-1 defeat. Defender Danilo got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.64/10. Danilo hit one key pass and won 5 of 8 duels.

Before that game, the 4-2 home victory against Torino.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Juventus's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 6 games, won 3 matches, drawn 2 and lost 1.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Serie A game versus Sampdoria in only three days. This game is also played here at Juventus Training Center.

Juventus can score goals in their home matches. After 13 league matches they have found the net 29 times. From these home matches, Juventus have conceded only 10 goals.

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SC Freiburg form and stats

5-3-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for SC Freiburg in their Bundesliga matches away. When we have look at the Europa League statistics, we find 4W-2D-0L. This is both home and away.

SC Freiburg are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Borussia M'gladbach. Goalkeeper Flekken got the top player rating of the team with 7.73/10. Flekken topped it up with a clean sheet.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the Bundesliga.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and SC Freiburg playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 1 away win, 0 draws and 3 home wins.

After this away game Freiburg return home for a Bundesliga game against Hoffenheim. That game is only three sleeps after this.

SC Freiburg are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 16 away goals from 12 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Freiburg have conceded 23 goals in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

SC FreiburgV. Grifo
V. Grifo
12 goals
JuventusD. Vlahović
D. Vlahović
8 goals
SC FreiburgM. Gregoritsch
M. Gregoritsch
8 goals

Juventus missing players

SC Freiburg missing players

Juventus SC Freiburg
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 12   Played P   12 25
16 8   Won W   4 13
2 2   Drew D   4 8
7 2   Lost L   4 4
41 23   Scored S   15 44
25 11   Conceded C   22 34
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   83% 92%
68% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   83% 92%
40% 50%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   50% 52%
20% 25%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   50% 40%
16% 17%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   25% 20%
28% 42%   BTTS BTTS   33% 56%
56% 50%   Clean Sheets C S   50% 36%
16% 8%   Failed to Score F T   33% 16%
 
4.8 4.3   Corners for (avg) C F   3.9 4.1
5.2 4.8   Corners against (avg) C A   5.6 4.2
1.8 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.2 1.9
2 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
13.6 14.5   Shots (avg) S (   11.4 12.7
5.3 5.6   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.3 4.5
31% 34%   Goal Efficiency G E   38% 36%
 
12 10.7   Shots against (avg) S A   13.7 12
3.4 3   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5 3.6

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Napoli 25 21 2 2 58 16 12 10 1 1 31 9 13 11 1 1 27 7 42 65
2 Inter 25 16 2 7 46 28 13 11 0 2 27 6 12 5 2 5 19 22 18 50
3 Lazio 25 14 6 5 41 19 13 7 3 3 22 12 12 7 3 2 19 7 22 48
4 Roma 25 14 5 6 32 21 12 8 1 3 14 5 13 6 4 3 18 16 11 47
5 Milan 25 14 5 6 42 32 12 9 1 2 27 16 13 5 4 4 15 16 10 47
6 Atalanta 25 12 6 7 42 28 12 5 3 4 22 15 13 7 3 3 20 13 14 42
7 Juventus 25 15 5 5 40 20 13 9 3 1 29 10 12 6 2 4 11 10 20 35
8 Bologna 25 10 5 10 31 34 13 6 4 3 17 10 12 4 1 7 14 24 -3 35
9 Torino 25 9 7 9 27 29 12 5 4 3 11 8 13 4 3 6 16 21 -2 34
10 Udinese 25 7 11 7 33 30 12 3 7 2 19 14 13 4 4 5 14 16 3 32
11 Monza 25 9 5 11 30 35 13 5 3 5 18 15 12 4 2 6 12 20 -5 32
12 Fiorentina 25 8 7 10 29 31 13 5 4 4 18 19 12 3 3 6 11 12 -2 31
13 Sassuolo 25 8 6 11 30 37 12 5 2 5 16 15 13 3 4 6 14 22 -7 30
14 Empoli 25 6 10 9 23 33 12 4 4 4 12 14 13 2 6 5 11 19 -10 28
15 Lecce 25 6 9 10 24 29 12 2 6 4 13 15 13 4 3 6 11 14 -5 27
16 Salernitana 25 6 7 12 28 44 13 4 3 6 17 18 12 2 4 6 11 26 -16 25
17 Spezia 25 4 9 12 21 41 13 2 7 4 13 19 12 2 2 8 8 22 -20 21
18 Hellas Verona 25 4 6 15 20 37 13 4 1 8 14 21 12 0 5 7 6 16 -17 18
19 Sampdoria 25 2 6 17 11 39 13 0 4 9 3 18 12 2 2 8 8 21 -28 12
20 Cremonese 25 1 9 15 21 46 12 1 3 8 7 20 13 0 6 7 14 26 -25 12
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 FC Bayern München 23 14 7 2 66 22 11 7 4 0 34 8 12 7 3 2 32 14 44 49
2 Borussia Dortmund 23 16 1 6 47 28 11 9 1 1 30 11 12 7 0 5 17 17 19 49
3 FC Union Berlin 23 13 5 5 35 27 11 7 4 0 19 8 12 6 1 5 16 19 8 44
4 RB Leipzig 23 12 6 5 46 29 11 8 2 1 25 10 12 4 4 4 21 19 17 42
5 SC Freiburg 23 12 6 5 35 32 11 7 3 1 19 9 12 5 3 4 16 23 3 42
6 Eintracht Frankfurt 23 11 6 6 45 33 11 7 1 3 26 13 12 4 5 3 19 20 12 39
7 Mainz 05 23 10 5 8 38 34 12 5 4 3 22 14 11 5 1 5 16 20 4 35
8 Wolfsburg 23 9 7 7 42 31 11 4 4 3 25 19 12 5 3 4 17 12 11 34
9 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 23 9 4 10 40 37 12 5 2 5 25 17 11 4 2 5 15 20 3 31
10 Borussia M'gladbach 23 8 6 9 38 39 12 7 2 3 25 15 11 1 4 6 13 24 -1 30
11 Werder Bremen 23 9 3 11 35 43 12 5 1 6 20 18 11 4 2 5 15 25 -8 30
12 Köln 23 6 9 8 32 36 11 5 3 3 21 12 12 1 6 5 11 24 -4 27
13 Augsburg 23 8 3 12 28 39 12 5 2 5 12 16 11 3 1 7 16 23 -11 27
14 Hertha BSC 23 5 5 13 28 44 12 4 4 4 18 19 11 1 1 9 10 25 -16 20
15 Stuttgart 23 4 7 12 28 40 12 4 3 5 16 15 11 0 4 7 12 25 -12 19
16 Hoffenheim 23 5 4 14 29 42 12 3 2 7 15 22 11 2 2 7 14 20 -13 19
17 Schalke 04 23 4 7 12 18 42 12 3 3 6 12 26 11 1 4 6 6 16 -24 19
18 Bochum 23 6 1 16 24 56 11 5 1 5 17 21 12 1 0 11 7 35 -32 19

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The UEFA Europa League, abbreviated as UEL and commonly referred to as just the Europa League, is an annual football club competition organised by UEFA. It is the second-tier competition for football clubs in Europa, beneath the UEFA Champions League in value and importance. Teams qualify through their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Some teams qualify from the Champions League; more precisely the teams who are knocked out in the playoff qualifying round and the third-place finishers of the group stage. The winner of the Europa League qualifies for the Champions League in their next competitive season.