Torino vs. Juventus match preview: Time, TV schedule, and how to watch the Serie A
Following a rotten start to 2025, Juventus return to Serie A action and begin an important month of January against a team they’re very familiar with.
Every season we talk about a few quirks that are within the Serie A schedule. We are about to arrive at one of the most notable ones following a week off because Juventus couldn’t close out AC Milan in the semifinals of the new-look Italian Super Cup and thus headed back home to Italy a little earlier than we thought they would in the 65th minute a week and a half ago.
I say this because Juventus are about to play their 19th game of the 2024-25 season. However, it is not against the one opponent they have yet to face this season. Instead, because of that same Supercoppa in which they didn’t win, Juventus’ second Derby della Mole against Torino will take place a few days before facing red-hot Atalanta, the one team Thiago Motta has not faced since moving to Turin last summer.
In short, Matchday 20 is happening before Matchday 19, albeit a postponed one.
It’s a bit of a mindfuck because we’re so used to these things being in a nice, clean order even though Serie A tries to make things difficult on us sometimes.
But, thanks to the Supercoppa, we’ve got the end of the andata and start of the ritorno flip-flopped and just a few short days between one another for Juventus.
With all that being said, the midway point of the season is very much upon us even though Juve will be playing Torino for a second time this season come Saturday night. We’re all of 90 minutes away from 19 games being played and 19 games left to go in Serie A. With that comes the second Derby della Mole of the 2024-25 season, with the proceedings now shifting over from the Allianz Stadium where Juventus claimed a 2-0 win back before the November international break over about 15 minutes away to the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino where Thiago Motta’s sqaud will be out to get back on track after recording their first loss to Italian opposition in the Supercoppa.
And, you know, trying to get just their second win since they beat Torino on Nov. 9.
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you, my friends. Against Serie A opposition, Juventus have recorded just one win in their last six games, with five draws very much creating a situation in which Motta’s squad has seen plenty of separation between themselves and the top of the Serie A table take place.
It was after that first Derby della Mole of this season that Juventus went into the final international break of 2024 in sixth place but just two points behind league-leading Napoli.
A lot has changed in those following two months. Well, other than Juventus’ fetish for doing nothing but dropping points and racking up draws domestically. But as the talk of all those draws costing them the top four only continues to intensify even with the Jan. 3 loss to Milan not counting in the Serie A standings, Juventus were handed a little bit of help 24 hours before they took to the Olimpico field: With Lazio’s draw against relegation-threatened Como on Friday night, Juventus have the chance to get within a point of the team right in front of them in the standings. And, that is also with Juve having a game in hand thanks to their participation in the Supercoppa.
So, the question becomes if Juventus can, finally, take advantage of somebody in front of them slipping up. And, maybe, if Juve can take advantage of Torino continuing to be on the struggle bus ever since their extremely hot start to the season, with Paolo Vanoli’s side recording just two wins since late-September.
We know the month of January will be a big one for Juventus and Motta because of all the challenges that are going to be coming up wherever we look on the schedule both domestically and in Europe. So, after the struggles in Saudi Arabia, it sure would be nice to see Juventus get on track again now that they’re back home — and what better way to do it than actually in Turin city limits.
