Getty Images SportSerie A's heavyweights return for round three with a chance to add to some eye-catching numbers that could push a few sides into the headlines.
Three fixtures stand out: Inter against Napoli, Roma against Atalanta and Juventus against Milan. The statistics behind them make this round stand apart.
Inter have the chance to write a new page in the history of their meetings with Napoli, having scored in the last 16 consecutive matches between the two sides in Serie A.
Opta data confirms that "no team has ever scored in 17 consecutive meetings against Napoli", so a single Inter goal would hand them this historic record outright.
Victory would also give Inter their first three-match winning start to a season since 2023-2024, having claimed maximum points from their opening two rounds.
Hakan Calhanoglu leads the individual storylines. He has scored in the first two matches, and a goal on Saturday would make him the first midfielder in Inter's history to find the net in each of the opening three fixtures of a single season.
Napoli arrive at the top clash unbeaten in five straight meetings with Inter, a run of one win and four draws. They have never managed six consecutive matches without defeat against them since a spell that ran between 2013 and 2015.
Inter hold the historic edge, with 70 wins to 48 defeats and 42 draws. They have also scored 229 goals across these meetings, a tally bettered only by Juventus.
Juventus versus Milan stands apart from the round's other marquee fixtures. Four of the last five meetings between the two sides have finished 0-0, including the last two. Never before has this fixture produced three consecutive goalless draws, and the two clubs have not run up a longer sequence of stalemates since four in a row across 1973 and 1974.
Defensively, Juventus can point to a remarkable record. They have kept a clean sheet in each of their last six meetings with Milan, the longest run the Rossoneri have gone without scoring against any single opponent in the competition's history.
Winners of their first two matches 1-0 and 2-0, Juventus can now keep a clean sheet in their opening three games of the season for only the second time in the last 10 campaigns.
Milan, by contrast, have the chance to make it three straight wins to start a season for the fourth time in the last seven.
Nico Gonzalez fancies this one. He has had a hand in three goals across his last four home matches against Milan, scoring once and setting up two more.
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