Dusan Vlahovic will lead Juventus into their final home game of the 2025-26 campaign on Sunday when Fiorentina arrive in Turin, with Juve still two wins away from a place in next season's Champions League.
The immediate stakes are concrete: Juventus sit third before the penultimate matchday and are only one point clear of AC Milan and fifth-placed Roma, with Como a further two points adrift of Roma — a gap that leaves the race for the top four stretched across just three points between second and fifth. Juventus arrive on the back of a 1-0 victory over Lecce last week in which Vlahovic scored the winner after only 12 seconds, a result that extended their unbeaten run to 11 games across all competitions.
That sequence has been built on defence. Across Europe's top five leagues Juve have conceded twice in their last nine matches and kept seven clean sheets in that span, and they have suffered only one league defeat in Turin this season. Those numbers underline why the club remain favorites on paper even as the standings stay perilously tight.
Fiorentina, by contrast, come with another kind of momentum. They have secured survival with two rounds remaining and are unbeaten in the last three meetings with Juventus, having drawn 1-1 in Florence in November and inflicted the only recent heavy home reverse on Juve — a shock 3-0 win that remains a raw memory for the Turin side. Fiorentina drew 0-0 with Genoa last time out and have collected 25 points in the second half of the season, 12 more than they managed in the first half, a run that has taken them from relegation trouble to safety.
That revival, however, has not settled everything at Fiorentina. They are without a win in four games since their exit from the Conference League quarter-finals and Paolo Vanoli is expected to leave the club despite guiding them to survival. The managerial question hangs over the visitors in a match that will be read by many as a last chapter of the season for both clubs.
Juventus will also be missing Juan Cabal and Arkadiusz Milik, absences that complicate Andrea's tactical planning and could hand Khephren Thuram a start to replace Teun Koopmeiners in midfield. Those selection decisions are the fine margins that matter when a three-point gulf separates half the title-chasing pack.
The matchup has tension in its record as well as its table position. Juventus have lost only one of their last 17 home games against Fiorentina, but that solitary recent defeat was emphatic and came from the visitors — an uncomfortable fact that prevents any narrative of home invincibility. Fiorentina's recent unbeaten streak against Juve and their late-season rebound create a contradiction: Juventus are statistically the steadier side this spring, yet Fiorentina's direct results against them and their midseason turnaround make this far from a foregone conclusion.
Sunday's fixture will therefore be watched not just for goals but for control — will Juventus' defensive form and strong home record blunt Fiorentina's fresh confidence, or will the visitors' recovery season and recent head-to-head edge produce another upset? With only two wins separating Juve from Champions League qualification and the Serie A places stacked so closely, the outcome here will reshape a title race that remains alive by the slimmest of margins.
