Juventus vs Genoa Match Preview

Juventus needs to get back immediately on winning ways, if they want to regain the first spot considering Inter won their game and outranked them. They are ranked at the second spot now, but still have the best defense in the league and I expect them to try and not allow anything to their rivals. Cristiano Ronaldo was rested and will be back from the start and that already gives a boost to their game, not to mention that also Douglas Costa has trained with the team and should get some minutes in the second half. Pjanic will restin this one, but Bentancur will replace him so there will be no big changes in the line-up. Alongside with Ronaldo in attack is expected to play Dybala who is having an exceptional form now.

Genoa managed to win in the last game 3-1 against Brescia, but all they practically scored all the shots they made on the second half after they were losing 0-1 at the end of the first. Now they are ranked at the 17th place with eight points and out of the relegation zone, but Genoa is going to struggle against a motivated and fully fit Juventus team. The fact they will be on the road where they have failed to win any of the last 14 matches.

In conclusion, I think Juventus can win this match and cover -1.5 goals of Asian handicap. They are the better team and with Ronaldo back and fully rested their rivals will have big problems to contain him from the left side. And as it usually happens they focus too much on CR7 and forget to mark other players which can go on to score goals. Genoa has scored a single goal in their last five visits here.