US Sassuolo Calcio 3-2 Juventus FC: Serie A Match Report, 13 September 2026

Five goals, and not one of them before the interval. **US Sassuolo Calcio 3-2 Juventus FC** was 0-0 at half-time, which means the entire match happened in the second forty-five minutes. The order those goals came in is not on record, so whether Juventus led, trailed or chased is unknown, and this report will not invent a shape for it.

The numbers on either side make the total look stranger still. Juventus conceded 34 goals in 38 matches last season, the third-meanest defence in the division behind Como's 29 and Roma's 31, and had given up one goal in three matches this year — two clean sheets to open, then a 1-1 with Milan on 6 September. Three in an evening is not a wobble in that context, it is an outlier. Sassuolo, for their part, scored 46 in 38 last season, a shade over a goal a game, and had five from three before kick-off.

The pre-match table had Juventus fifth and Sassuolo eleventh, near enough where May left them — sixth on 69 points against eleventh on 49. Sassuolo had beaten Torino at this ground on 29 August and drawn 2-2 at Bologna; Juventus had not lost.

There is a straightforward way to read this and a dramatic one. The dramatic one is that something has changed at both clubs. The straightforward one is that Juventus lost seven matches last season, those seven were played somewhere, and this is what one of them looks like: a mid-table side at home, a tight first half, and a scoreline that gets away from the visitors after the break.

It leaves the two clubs level on seven points from four matches. Sassuolo were twenty points behind Juventus over a full season; four matches into the new one they are not behind at all. Four matches is a tenth of a campaign and that gap will not stay closed — Sassuolo lost 2-1 at Monza five days later, which is the useful reminder here.

For Juventus this is a first defeat, no more. Sixth last season was built on being hard to beat rather than on winning often — 19 wins and 12 draws — and one loss in four does not contradict that record. It does cost them the unbeaten start, and it was taken in the manner their season profile least predicted: at the back.

Our pre-match call was Double Chance X2 (Draw or Juventus FC) at 1.30, rated high. It lost, and the rating is the part that needs answering, not the selection. We wrote in the same preview that double chance has returned minus 3.4 per cent across 76 settled picks and that the sub-1.45 band is negative too, then rated this high anyway on the strength of a profile argument: a club that lost seven of 38 is the textbook case for the market. The profile was real. What it does not support is a *high* rating at 1.30, a price demanding better than a three-in-four hit rate, on an away trip to a mid-table side that had already won at home this season. We named the thing that beat us in the final paragraph and priced it as an afterthought.

Verdict: lost