Sporting need to get behind on lane opposite Juventus
Sporting Clube de Portugal started Group D definitely though have mislaid their final dual fixtures and another improved during a hands of Juventus could infer depot to their prospects.
• The Portuguese side are third in a standings on 3 points, 3 behind their opponents and 6 adrift of leaders FC Barcelona. Sporting will be incompetent to finish in a tip dual if they remove and Barcelona equivocate improved during bottom bar Olympiacos FC, who have mislaid all 3 games to date.
• Juventus have recovered from losing their initial tie to win a final two, many recently a 2-1 delight during home to Sporting. Juventus are by with a win if Barcelona equivocate improved in Greece.
Match background
Sporting
• Prior to matchday three, Sporting had not played an Italian organisation for 6 years, given dual contests opposite SS Lazio in a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (2-1 home, 0-2 away).
• That win in Lisbon means Sporting’s record during home to Italian sides now reads W4 D7 L2. Overall it is W5 D10 L13.
• Sporting are dominant in their final 4 games during home to Serie A visitors (W2 D2).
• Beaten 1-0 by Barcelona in their many new home fixture, Sporting were 3-2 winners during Olympiacos on matchday one. It was their initial divided win in a foe correct given a 1-0 feat during FC Basel 1893 on 9 Dec 2008; their unbroken record had been D1 L6, including 3 waste in final season’s organisation stage.
• The Lisbon bar have mislaid 4 of their final 6 European home games, winning one.
• The Portuguese organisation were 5-1 total winners opposite Romania’s FCSB in a play-offs, following adult a 0-0 home draw with a 5-1 success in Bucharest. That feat in Romania finished Sporting’s four-game losing strain in European divided matches.
• Sporting are in a organisation theatre for a third time in 4 seasons. In 2016/17, they came fourth in their organisation behind Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid CF and Legia Warszawa.
• Sporting competent by finishing third in a Portuguese Liga in 2016/17.
Juventus
• Juventus’s 14 encounters with Portuguese sides have finished W8 D2 L4; divided it is W2 D1 L3. All 4 of those defeats came opposite SL Benfica.
• The Bianconeri’s solitary home detriment to a Portuguese Liga bar came in their initial encounter, Benfica triumphing 1-0 in Turin in a 1967/68 European Champion Clubs’ Cup semi-final second leg (3-0 aggregate).
• Juventus got a improved of Portuguese antithesis in final season’s turn of 16, violence FC Porto 3-0 over dual legs (2-0 away, 1-0 home).
• Juve mislaid last season’s final 4-1 to Real Madrid CF in Cardiff. They were also beaten 3-0 by FC Barcelona on matchday one, a initial time given a 2014/15 organisation theatre they had mislaid unbroken European games; by violence Olympiacos they avoided pang 3 true defeats in Europe for a initial time given 1993/94.
• The 0-0 pull during Barcelona in final season’s quarter-final second leg was a usually one of Juve’s 6 divided matches in 2016/17 that they unsuccessful to win, with 5 purify sheets and usually one idea conceded to 12 scored. Defeat during Camp Nou on matchday one finished a six-game dominant divided run in Europe.
• This is an 18th UEFA Champions League organisation theatre debate for Juve, and a sixth in succession.
• The Italian outfit have reached a knockout rounds in their final 3 attempts, carrying finished third in their territory in 2013/14.
Coach and actor links
• Jorge Jesus guided Benfica to feat opposite Juve in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League semi-finals (2-1 home, 0-0 away).
• Jesus’s usually other compare opposite an Italian side was a 1-0 improved by AC Milan in a 2008/09 UEFA Cup organisation theatre when he was coaching SC Braga.
• Jérémy Mathieu was in a Barcelona organisation beaten 3-0 during Juventus in final season’s quarter-final initial leg. He had come on as a surrogate in a 3-1 feat in a 2015 UEFA Champions League final.
• Alex Sandro played in Portugal for Porto between 2011 and 2015; his record opposite Sporting was W4 D3 L1.
• Rui PatrÃcio and William Carvalho were in a Portugal side that kick Blaise Matuidi’s France 1-0 in a UEFA EURO 2016 final.
• Rui PatrÃcio and William Carvalho also got a improved of Marko Piaca and Mario Mandžukić in Portugal’s 1-0 last-16 improved of Croatia. Wojciech SzczÄ™sny was an new surrogate as Portugal kick Poland on penalties in a quarter-finals.
• Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli and Claudio Marchisio all featured as Italy kick Sebastiano Coates’s Uruguay in a accessible on 7 June.
• Stephan Lichtsteiner was in a Switzerland organisation that kick Portugal 2-0 in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 6 Sep 2016; Rui PatrÃcio and William Carvalho played for a visitors.
• Benedikt Höwedes scored in FC Schalke 04’s 4-3 home win opposite Sporting in a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League organisation stage, and also seemed in a 4-2 improved in Lisbon.
• Have played in Italy:
Cristiano Piccini (ACF Fiorentina 2010/11, Carrarese Calcio 2011/12, Spezia Calcio 2012/13, AS Livorno Calcio 2013/14)
Seydou Doumbia (AS Roma 2014/15)
Bruno Fernandes (Novara 2012/13, Udinese Calcio 2013–16, UC Sampdoria 2016/17)
Stefan Ristovski (Parma FC 2010–15, FC Crotone 2011/12, Frosinone Calcio 2012, AS Bari 2012/13, US Latina Calcio 2013/14, 2015)
• Have played together:
Miralem Pjanić Seydou Doumbia (Roma 2014/15)
Fábio Coentrão Sami Khedira (Real Madrid 2011–15) Gonzalo HiguaÃn (2011–13)
Jonathan Silva Rodrigo Bentancur (CA Boca Juniors 2016/17)
Douglas Costa Bruno César (Grêmio FBPA 2008)
• International team-mates:
Jérémy Mathieu Blaise Matuidi (France)
Paulo Dybala, Gonzalo HiguaÃn Marcos Acuña (Argentina)