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Fiorentina have only won one of their last ten meetings with Juventus, although that was a 3-0 victory in Turin just 16 months ago. Juve have advanced through 22 of their last 24 Coppa Italia ties.
Both teams to score is 4/5.
Both teams to score and over 2.5 goals is 11/8.
Juventus to win and over 2.5 goals is 21/10.
Dušan Vlahović is 7/2 to break the deadlock and 11/10 to score against his former club.
Match preview
After the first leg at Stadio Artemio Franchi 49 days ago, it’s Juventus who are firmly in the box-seat.
Despite this, it was Juve who snatched a dramatic, stoppage time winner in Florence.
Juan Cuadrado’s whipped cross deflected off the unfortunate Lorenzo Venuti at the back post as Juve, somehow, secured a crucial away goal.
Will they make that 1-0 advantage count back in Turin?
La Vecchia Signora are 14-times Coppa Italia winners, including lifting four in a row between 2015 and 2019, before regaining the trophy last year.
This competition now represents Juve’s only shot at silverware this season after their Scudetto hopes suffered another blow on Saturday.
Massimiliano Allegri’s side could only draw 1-1 with Bologna at home, needing an astonishing 95th minute equaliser from Dušan Vlahović to earn it.
This leaves them fourth in Serie A, eight points below leaders A.C. Milan.
Fiorentina, in contrast, have won ten major honours in their history, but the most recent of those came by winning this competition 21 years ago.
This season, I Viola had to begin in the Coppa’s first round, but have already overcome both Napoli and Atalanta, 5-2 and 3-2, both on the road.
On Saturday, Lucas Torreira got the only goal in a 1-0 victory over relegation threatened Venezia.
Vincenzo Italiano’s side are now seventh in the table, having won three in a row have six of their last nine.
Can Fiorentina pull off a famous comeback or will Juventus finish the job at Allianz Stadium?
The winners will face Internazionale Milano or A.C. Milan at Stadio Olimpico on 11 May.
Juventus team news
Weston McKennie, Manuel Locatelli, Arthur and Federico Chiesa are all long-term absentees.
This particularly leaves Juve short in central-midfield with Adrien Rabiot and Denis Zakaria the only obvious options in there.
Giorgio Chiellini and Matthijs de Ligt started at centre-back on Saturday but Leonardo Bonucci could come in for either.
Paulo Dybala has won 12 major honours with Juventus but this competition is his only hope of adding to that before departing in the summer.
He and Álvaro Morata will flank Dušan Vlahović who’ll be facing the side he departed as recently as January.
Fiorentina team news
The visitors are missing Álvaro Odriozola and Giacomo Bonaventura due to injuries.
Igor and Nikola Milenković are a very sold centre-back duo and they’ll need that to be the case here too.
Lucas Torreira will anchor midfield while, in attack, they have options.
Krzysztof Piątek is this season’s Coppa Italia joint-top scorer with three, but he may only be on the bench for this one.
Nicolás González and big-money singing Jonathan Ikoné could continue to flank Arthur Cabral, who’ll be looking to add to his two goals since joining from Basel.
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