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Seventh heaven: Juventus’ Serie A 2017-18 title win in numbers
Sunday’s 0-0 draw against AS Roma ensured Juventus are Serie A champions for the seventh season in a row.
Juventus have wrapped up a seventh consecutive Serie A title, holding off a strong challenge from Napoli to defend the Scudetto again.
Massimiliano Allegri has led the club to a fourth straight domestic double during his time at the club, with the Juve coach being linked with succeeding Arsene Wenger at Arsenal.
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If Allegri does depart, he will go out on a high, Juve adding the Serie A crown to the Coppa Italia title they won against AC Milan on Wednesday thanks to a 4-0 victory at the same Stadio Olimpico venue where the league title was clinched.
Here, we assess the key numbers in yet another successful season for the Bianconeri:
7 - Juventus have won seven straight Scudetti, the first team in Italian football history to achieve this feat.
34 - The Bianconeri have now won the league 34 times - this is 16 more titles than any of their Serie A rivals.
22 - Paulo Dybala is the youngest player in Europe’s top-five leagues to have scored at least 20 goals this term.
10 - Juve kept 10 consecutive clean sheets from January 6 to March 17, setting a joint-record in Serie A history.
12 - Allegri’s side won 12 league matches in a row from December 17 to March 14, while they were unbeaten domestically from November through to April, when Napoli’s 1-0 win in Turin blew the Scudetto race wide open.
22 - Juventus have now kept 22 clean sheets, equalling the Serie A record in a single season.
7-0 - The biggest win of Juve’s season was a 7-0 demolition of Sassuolo on February 4 - Gonzalo Higuain scoring a second-half hat-trick.
15 - Juventus are the only team in Serie A this season to have more than one player score 15 or more goals (Dybala 22, Higuain 16).
