Barcelona v Juventus: line-ups, where to watch, form guide
- Barcelona and Juventus replenish their adversary to open Group D
- Barça beat Juve in 2015 final though mislaid their quarter-final final season
- Barcelona on 21-match dominant home run in Europe
- Giorgio Chiellini and Mario Mandžukić assimilated Juve damage list on Monday
- Barça’s Lionel Messi 3 bashful of 100 UEFA bar foe goals
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Possible line-ups
Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Semedo, Piqué, Umtiti, Alba; Rakitić, Busquets, Iniesta; Dembélé, Suárez, Messi.
Out: Arda Turan (hamstring), Paco Alcácer (illness)
Juventus: Buffon; Barzagli, Benatia, Rugani, Alex Sandro; Matuidi, Pjanić, Sturaro; Douglas Costa, Dybala; HiguaÃn.
Out: Cuadrado (suspended), Marchisio (knee), Khedira (knee), Chiellini (calf), Mandžukić (leg)
Doubtful: Alex Sandro (illness)
Where to watch
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Ernesto Valverde, Barcelona coach
Juve are a unequivocally absolute group and no one needs reminding how they knocked Barcelona out final season. They are clever during bringing a round out and are glorious during dire high adult a pitch. When their aggressive players connect, they unequivocally know how to emanate danger. This is a diversion between dual of a many absolute teams in Europe.
Massimiliano Allegri, Juventus coach
Tomorrow will be a good diversion of football. we contend that in football any deteriorate is opposite to a one before. The deteriorate is going to be long, and we have to take it step by step. We’re not during a best earthy state nonetheless as we’re usually starting. The design is to get to Mar and be in all 3 competitions. We have had some changes during Juve this season, though we have managed them well. Along with Madrid, [Barcelona] are favourites to win a Champions League.
Weekend results
Barcelona 5-0 Espanyol
Juventus 3-0 Chievo
Form guide*
Barcelona: WWWLL
Juventus: WWWL
*All competitions, this deteriorate only. Most new outcome first
Reporter’s view: Paolo Menicucci (@UEFAcomPaoloM)
I don’t consider Barcelona will confront a same section wall they ran into in a lapse leg of final season’s quarter-final, as Juventus are still acid for their usual defensive fortitude after offered Leonardo Bonucci to AC Milan in a summer. With Paulo Dybala in such shining form, however, a Bianconeri could also difficulty a Barcelona defensive line. we therefore expect something opposite to a goalless pull when these sides faced any other during a Camp Nou final term.
Did we know?
Barça’s 2016/17 debate was curtailed by Juventus, who hold out for a goalless pull during a Camp Nou in a quarter-final second leg, completing a 3-0 total victory. Read some-more in a endless compare background.