Roma host champions elect Juventus for their final home game in Serie A this season. Read the match predictions to find out why the football betting tip is Roma and Juventus to draw at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday.
After the thrills and spills of reaching the Champions League semi-final, it will take a disaster for Roma to fail in securing a place in next season’s competition. They are currently four points clear of fifth-placed Inter who must play fourth-placed Lazio on the final day of the season.
Roma will be without Rick Karsdrop, Gregoire Defrel and Bino Peres who are sidelined while Juan Jesus look set to return in place of Kostas Manolas who is suffering from a muscle strain. Top scorer Edin Dzeko will lead the line and is looking to score his fifth goal in as many matches.
Juventus full-back Stephan Lichtsteiner is expecting a recall as Juan Cuadrado sits this one out due to suspension. Gonzalo Higuain will return to the lineup on Sunday having started on the bench for the Coppa Italia final on Wednesday evening.
Juventus only require a point from the last two games to be crowned Serie A champions for the seventh successive time. Roma will know exactly how they stand by 4pm on Sunday and either way, won’t be too disappointed with a share of the points.
Roma have won five of the last six in all competitions and have scored 13 goals in the last four games. Some of the competition has been high class and they defeated Barcelona 3-0 and Liverpool 4-2 in Champions League encounters.
Juventus are famous for producing 1-0 victories but have also been amongst the goals recently. They defeated Milan 4-0 in the Coppa Italia final and have won the last three games scoring 10 goals.
The Serie A champions are unbeaten away in the league since mid-November and can extend that record to 13 games this weekend.
So far this season, Roma have won 11, drawn one and lost six of 18 home matches in the Serie A. They’ve kept five clean sheets and failed to score four times.
Juventus have won 14, drawn three and lost 1one of 18 away games, keeping nine clean sheets and failing to score once.
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