Juventus vs Udinese Prediction: Old Lady to edge it

Juventus and Udinese have met once already this season, with the former triumphing 3-1 at their Allianz Stadium in Serie A on October 29. The two sides face off against each other again on Tuesday (20:00 GMT, Premier Sports 2), once again in Turin, but this time in the last 16 of the Coppa Italia.

Read below for my Juventus vs Udinese predictions, accompanied by all the latest team news and match odds.

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Team News

Carlo Pinsoglio, Daniele Rugani, Arkadiusz Milik (all calf) and Bremer (knee) are still sidelined for Juventus, who are set to be without Dusan Vlahovic for the remainder of the calendar year following the Serbian striker’s withdrawal in the 31st minute of Saturday’s 2-1 victory over Cagliari with an adductor injury.

Football Odds

Hassane Kamara (foot) and Thomas Kristensen (thigh) are unavailable for Udinese due to injury, but otherwise, head coach Kosta Runjaic appears to have a fully fit squad to choose from.

Juventus vs Udinese Odds

Juventus have won seven of the last eight head-to-heads, including the last three, and the Old Lady are 4/11 favourites to triumph inside regulation time this Tuesday, implying a 73.3% probability of success. Udinese, meanwhile, are 13/2, or a 13.3% chance, to secure a shock victory in Turin, with the draw, which would send the tie to a penalty shootout, priced at 10/3.

The hosts are 1/5 to win the tie by any means, while the visitors are 10/3 in the same market.

Price Boosts - Juventus To Win To Nil @ 6/5 7/5

Juve drew 0-0 with Torino on November 8, but failed to keep a clean sheet in their last three games of the month, drawing 1-1 at Fiorentina, before winning 3-2 at Bodo/Glimt and 2-1 at home to Cagliari.

Still, I think Betfred's Price Boost for this cup tie could be worth backing.

The Old Lady have recorded four shutouts this season, three of which have come on home soil, and all were against Italian opponents.

Today's Football Fixtures

Udinese won 2-0 at Parma on Saturday, but had failed to score in their previous two games, losing 2-0 at AS Roma and 3-0 at home to Bologna.

Runjaic's side have faced five of Serie A's current top-seven sides and blanked against three of them, Roma, Bologna and AC Milan (0-3). To their credit, they did win 2-1 at Inter Milan on August 31 and scored in a 3-1 league defeat at Juve on October 29, but three goals from five matches is still a meek return.

With changes expected to be made to both starting XI's, particularly in attack, where Juve's Vlahovic is injured and Udinese's joint-top goalscorer, Nicolo Zaniolo, who struck his team's goal in Turin just over a month ago, could be rested, I'm not anticipating too many goals on Tuesday, and so it might be worth backing the hosts, with their superior quality in reserve, to edge this one.

A team had won to nil in five previous head-to-heads prior to October's meeting, with Juve coming out on top in four of those.

Away Team Total Corners Over/Under +3.5 - Over 3.5 @ 5/4

Udinese (4.85) are seventh for corners taken per game in Serie A this season, while their 4.86 per game average away from home ranks them sixth in Italy's top division.

Tuesday's visitors to Allianz Stadium have cleared this line in six of their seven away matches this term, including their 2-1 defeat on this ground in October, when they were awarded four corners.

Juve, meanwhile, are averaging 4.23 corners conceded per game in Serie A this season, rising to 4.57 at home; only four clubs are averaging more on home soil.

On Saturday, Juve took just a single corner and conceded six to Cagliari. Earlier in the day, Udinese won nine corners to Parma's five.

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