Juventus vs. Fiorentina match preview: Time, TV schedule, and how to watch the Serie A

Thirty-six lengthy matchdays have gotten us to this level. Some of them have been good, a few of them have been the reverse, an excellent variety of them have landed someplace in the center, probably with a moderately apathetic feeling thrown in there, too. No matter how you attempt and spin one other trophy-less season for Juventus, it has been one other slog at occasions the place different moments have really given us some semblance of hope.

Either approach, we’re now down to the last 180 minutes.

We really know a kickoff time, too. (How about that, huh?)

Juventus’ last residence sport of the 2025-26 season is upon us, people. And with it comes a last dash to the end line in a season during which Juventus have been removed from spectacular for a lot of the season but even have an opportunity to really end the penultimate weekend of the marketing campaign in second place. Seriously, it is’ attainable. That is due to the truth that each one of three factors separate Napoli in second and sixth-place Como — which is a big cause as to why half of the Matchday 37 fixture is now kicking off at excessive midday on Sunday. Juventus, two factors behind Antonio Conte’s Napoli, are clearly a part of that group, and start this back-to-back matchup in opposition to groups that completely hate the Bianconeri with a go to from Fiorentina.

This is the similar Fiorentina crew that has not received in a month and has simply spent a variety of the season making an attempt to combat out of and then keep out of the relegation zone. It has been a vastly disappointing season for La Viola and the two managers who’ve coached them. They will arrive in Turin mathematically protected from relegation but additionally sitting in fifteenth place — a far cry from the place they anticipated to be at this level of the 2025-26 season contemplating they’ve the seventh-highest wage invoice in Serie A.

But you realize what can be a pleasant little comfort prize for La Viola?

You guessed it: Completely screwing over Juve’s Champions League chase in the penultimate weekend of the season. Because that’s one among the actual solely motivating elements that Fiorentina has of their last two video games this season. Trying to end in thirteenth place in contrast to fifteenth? Nah, who cares about that. But placing an enormous dent in Juventus’ Champions League qualification hopes? That’s what a crew that hates Juve would love to do.

Tired: Finishing mid-table.

Wired: Seeing Juve drop factors after they desperately want three factors.

Throw in the undeniable fact that Juventus simply hasn’t had a lot success in opposition to Fiorentina earlier this season and over the final handful of years, then you definately higher imagine that it might very properly find yourself being lots nearer than some suppose based mostly on how Paolo Vanoli’s squad have regarded over the previous few weeks.

Juventus have not overwhelmed Fiorentina in over two years. The final three conferences between the two golf equipment have been two attracts bookending what proved to be the last nail in Thiago Motta’s coffin at Juve with a 3-0 loss in Florence. That most up-to-date draw, a 1-1 scoreline at the Franchi, got here all of about three weeks after Luciano Spalletti took over as supervisor. Even as Fiorentina have been going by their points when Juventus have confronted them, it isn’t prefer it’s been a straightforward street by any stretch of the creativeness.

The final time Juventus beat Fiorentina was April 7, 2024.

For all of Firoentina’s struggles, that is a very long time to go and not using a win over a crew like Fiorentina.

But that is the catch with all of this. Beating Fiorentina, it doesn’t matter what form of kind they’re in at the time, is hard to make occur. It’s virtually at all times been a low-scoring matchup. We may not see the similar form of method from Spalletti as we noticed from Max Allegri put ahead about 2 1/2 years in the past when he simply dared Fiorentina to cross and cross and attempt to beat Juve that approach, nevertheless it’s an enormous job to attempt and make occur even when it appears to be like like Fiorentina has been on the seashore — at the very least mentally — the previous few weeks.

And did we point out that Juventus’ Champions League qualification are hopes using on it?

Juve have six factors left on the desk. That’s 180 minutes of soccer left to play in the 2025-26 season. They win each of these video games, they’re in the Champions League subsequent season. It’s easy on paper — and that is as a result of Spalletti’s squad management their very own destiny. The approach you lose that — particularly with how tight issues are from second place down to sixth — is to drop factors this weekend and probably threat issues with the Turin derby to shut out the season.

So as a lot as Sunday afternoon is likely to be a grind, Juventus want to win. They can end the day in second, they’ll end the day in third, however that must be the solely two locations during which they want to be on the desk. You try this and then the Derby della Mole might be your ticket into the Champions League. Simple as that.

There is a rising sense that Juventus’ beginning lineup in opposition to Fiorentina will look lots like the one which Spalletti used per week in the past in the win over Lecce. That means Juventus’ midfield pivot will as soon as once more be one which we’ve not seen a lot of over the previous few months.

But it may be one which we see for one among the last occasions each this season and past contemplating the unsettled way forward for the participant we’re about to discuss.

And no, it isn’t Locatelli. Remember how I signed a new deal just a few weeks agopeople? So you possibly can in all probability do the the math or strategy of elimination now.

For all we all know, this could possibly be one among Teun Koopmeiners’ last appearances in a Juventus jersey. I’m guessing there is a good quantity of people that can be OK with that. And perhaps simply as many individuals who might be fuming when they’re reminded simply how a lot Juventus despatched over to Atalanta in change for Koopmeiners, who has failed to reside up to the lofty switch price that the Bianconeri paid two summers in the past.

No matter your emotions about Koopmeiners from his last season in Bergamo or the participant who has been current for the overwhelming majority of his time with Juventus, it does appear to be a second straight begin alongside Locatelli in midfield is probably going. That’s largely carried out with the undeniable fact that Thuram continues to be coping with the muscle concern that has hampered him the previous few weeks and his health match is actually limiting him to a task as a second-half sub. Therefore, in what could possibly be his last sport at the Allianz Stadium as a Juve participant, Koopmeiners might be a key participant for Spalletti in the Bianconeri’s hopes of beating La Viola.

To steal a time period from the baseball superior stat world, we should not actually be pleased with “replacement level“quality of play from Koopmeiners considering what Juve paid for him, but that feels like the bar these days because of just how disappointing his time in Turin has been. You don’t pay that kind of transfer and just hope that said player is simply “OK” most of the time. But with how Koopmeiners has played, something even slightly above replacement level does feel like a stark improvement.

Juventus will likely have a lot of possession against Fiorentina on Sunday afternoon. They will likely be facing a low block that will look to counter and use the speed that they have up front. So as much as Koopmeiners trying to break the lines with his passing will be important, his defending will be just as vital in trying to not allow Fiorentina to trick off a chance or two and stun the Allianz crowd.

If this is one of the last times we see Koopmeiners as a Juve player, then let’s just hope it’s pushing something resembling — gasp! — good rather than the status quo for much of his two seasons in bianconero.

When: Sunday, May 17, 2026.

Where: Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy.

Official kickoff time: 12 pm local time in Italy and across Europe, 11 am in the United Kingdom, 6 am Eastern time, 5 am Central time, 3 am Pacific time.

Television: Sky Sport Uno, Sky Sport Calcio, Sky Sport 252 (Italy).

Online/Streaming: Paramount+Amazon Prime USA, DAZN USA (United States); DAZN Canada; fuboTV Canada (Canada); DAZN UK (United Kingdom); DAZN Italy, Sky Go Italia, NOW TV (Italy).

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