Juventus and Inter met in Perth on Saturday 8 August at 13:00 local time, playing an amichevole that was available live on Dazn, Sky Sport and Juventus.com. The match was shown as a 0-0 contest while the teams’ lineups were still being framed in alternative versions, turning a preseason friendly into an early read on both squads.
That is why Juventus Vs Inter is drawing attention now: it was the first seasonal meeting between the sides and came about two weeks before the start of Serie A. In other words, this was not just a warm-up in August in Perth, but a live test of shape, fitness and choices with the league campaign closing in.
La Gazzetta dello Sport listed two possible Juventus lineups, and one of them included Di Gregorio, Kalulu, Bremer, Kelly, Cambiaso, Locatelli, Douglas Luiz, Zhegrova, Mckennie, Yildiz and David. The other Juventus version swapped in Koopmeiners and Alajbegovic, with Conceiçao also in attack beside David. For Inter, the same outlet also listed two possible XIs: one with Provedel, Pavard, Bastoni, Bovio, Luis Henrique, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco, Esposito and Bonny, and another with Martinez, Pavard, Bisseck, Carlos Augusto, Diouf, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco, Esposito and Bonny.
That split matters because it leaves the starting teams unresolved even as the match itself is presented in progress at 0-0. Yildiz’s presence in one Juventus option is the clearest individual marker in the list, but the broader picture is that both clubs were still being arranged on paper while the game was already being framed as live. Frattesi was also mentioned in connection with Juventus in recent weeks, which only adds to the sense that preseason is still a period of fluid choices rather than fixed answers.
What comes next is less about the friendly itself than about what each coach settles on once the August tests are over. The lineups listed in Perth show the shape of the discussion, but not yet the final version of it.
