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The 2025-26 Serie A season is officially upon us, folks. As this goes live, the first fixture of Matchday 1 is about kick off in a few hours, with Lecce facing Genoa at the Marassi, the same place in which Juventus will spend a few hours of Matchday 2 at next weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Before the trip to Genoa, though, Juventus has their season opener to deal with as they welcome Parma to the Allianz Stadium on Sunday night. It\u2019s the first of 38 for Juve and Igor Tudor, who will man the sidelines in Turin with a little more job security compared to the last Serie A fixture he coached in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Tudor will have, barring any sort of incredibly surprising final week of the summer transfer window, mostly the same roster that he coached in the final nine games of last season and then at the Club World Cup. The number of new players added to a roster that barely got into fourth place on the final day of the 2024-25 campaign is minimal, with most of Juve\u2019s money spent this summer coming on obligations to buy from deals made by the previous management team during last summer\u2019s mercato.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
So, a roster that is mostly the same that may or may not be better than last season\u2019s squad is set to begin the proceedings of a new season in which Juventus are far from the favorite to finish as the top team in Serie A.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sounds exciting, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
OK, so maybe not totally the kind of hype that surrounded the start of last season. I think that\u2019s pretty obvious at this point considering how much talk about a grand Juventus project there has been this summer compared to a year ago. No matter what, though, Juventus\u2019 season is about to begin and the next nine or 10 months will be dominated by what they do well or simply fail to do effectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
So here\u2019s to the now-annual tradition around here right as Juventus are just a small amount of hours away from playing their first fixture of the new season. Let us predict where Juventus will finish in Serie A \u2014 and let it become something that hopefully we won\u2019t revisit with a whole bunch of shame and grumpiness come the late spring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n