Juventus clawed their way back from 2-0 down to Pedro and Gustav Isaksen goals to snatch a 2-2 draw with Lazio thanks to Weston McKennie and a last-gasp Pierre Kalulu header.
2025/2026 Serie A
2-2
Match Report
The first big scoring opportunity came after a corner when Pierre Kalulu’s cross found a Gleison Bremer bullet header, forcing a flying Ivan Provedel reaction save to tip it out from under the crossbar.
There was a chaotic situation when Juan Cabal went down under a Mario Gila challenge inside the area, play continued and Teun Koopmeiners drilled in from the edge of the box. However, Khephren Thuram was offside and interfering with play, as he got out of the ball’s path to let it through.
Koopmeiners, who was playing as part of a back four, threatened again with a volley that skimmed the upright from distance.
Gustav Isaksen just failed to get on the end of a dangerous Nuno Tavares low ball flashed across from the left, while David’s free header was over from seven yards on the Kalulu cross.
It was Lazio who took the lead in first half stoppages, as Daniel Maldini robbed Manuel Locatelli in midfield and spread it down the left for Pedro, whose angled drive took a deflection off Bremer to wrong-foot Michele Di Gregorio at the near post.
Toma Basic went off injured, while Edon Zhegrova was introduced because Francisco Conceicao felt a knee twinge during the warm-up at half-time.
Lazio doubled their advantage within moments of the restart, as Danilo Cataldi’s long ball sent Isaksen sprinting down the right, holding off Cambiaso to blast under the bar from a tricky angle with his right foot.
Provedel palmed away a Kenan Yildiz curler, while Fisayo Dele-Bashiru’s heavy first touch ruined a great chance set up by Nuno Tavares.
Juve did get back into it when Provedel was at full stretch to parry the Zhegrova strike, but could do nothing as the move continued with Cambiaso standing up a cross for Wes McKennie’s header from six yards.
The hosts poured forward, McKennie grazing his head to another Cambiaso cross, taking it away from Bremer at the back post.
Locatelli’s daisy-cutter skimmed the far post, with Kenneth Taylor also drilling just wide on the counter-attack at the other end.
David completed a give and go with Thuram to roll across from the left beyond Provedel, but as Bremer came sliding in, Nuno Tavares made a decisive defensive block in front of the open goal.
Mario Gila also picked up a muscular problem, allowing Romagnoli to make his comeback after that failed transfer to Al-Sadd.
Kenan Yildiz stung Provedel’s gloves with a ferocious volley on the edge of the box, and McKennie knew he was offside when deflecting a Kalulu cross into the net from point-blank range.
Lazio really should’ve added a third at the 86th minute when Nuno Tavares went on the counter and rolled across, it was laid off by Dele-Bashiru only for Tijjani Noslin to incredibly balloon over when undisturbed from 14 yards.
A Zhegrova curler flashed just wide of the far post, while Provedel fingertipped a Yildiz strike onto the side-netting.
At the 96th minute, Jeremie Boga stood up a cross from the left and found Kalulu ready to nod in the equaliser from close range.
Data Debrief: No way, Pedro!
Juventus maintained their unbeaten home record in Serie A this season, albeit by the skin of their teeth, after denying Lazio their first league double over the Bianconeri since the 1942-43 season.
The Biancocelesti led through Pedro on his 150th Serie A appearance, all of which have occurred since he turned 34.
The Spaniard is the fourth foreign player to achieve that feat during the three-points-per-win era, after Javier Zanetti, Samir Handanovic and Rodrigo Palacio.
However, Juve's revival was led by McKennie, who has scored seven goals in all competitions since Luciano Spalletti took charge; the most by any Serie A midfielder during this period.
But it was perhaps a game Juventus felt they should have won, given they finished the contest with an expected goals (xG) total of 2.84 from their 34 shots compared to Lazio's 1.06 from their nine attempts.
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Line-ups
Juventus XI: Locatelli, Koopmeiners, Di Gregorio, Gleison, McKennie, Jonathan David, Khéphren Thuram, Kalulu, Cabal, Andrea Cambiaso, Yıldız
Subs: Pinsoglio, Perin, Kostic, Jérémie Boga, Openda, Lloyd Kelly, Edon Zhegrova, Francisco Conceição, Emil Holm, Fabio Miretti, Gatti, Adzic
Lazio XI: Pedro, Marusic, Ivan Provedel, Cataldi, Toma Bašić, Nuno Tavares, Gustav Isaksen, Kenneth Taylor, Mario Gila, Maldini, Oliver Provstgaard
Subs: Hysaj, Patric, Romagnoli, Rovella, Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, Boulaye Dia, Matteo Cancellieri, Alessio Furlanetto, Tijjani Noslin, Petar Ratkov, Reda Belahyane, Adrian Przyborek, Edoardo Motta