Juventus out to extend Olympiacos dominance
Juventus and Olympiacos FC both have belligerent to make adult in Group D as they accommodate in a second turn of fixtures, with a Greek side returning to a city where they suffered their heaviest European loss.
While Juve were going down 3-0 during FC Barcelona on matchday one, Sporting Clube de Portugal were violence Olympiacos 3-2 in Piraeus, withdrawal both these teams personification catch-up in a section.
Previous meetings
• Juventus have won 6 and mislaid usually dual of a clubs’ 10 prior encounters, including all 4 fixtures played in Turin.
• Their many new meetings came in a 2014/15 organisation stage, when a first-half idea from Pajtim Kasami gave Olympiacos a 1-0 home win in Piraeus. Juve, however, turned a tables in Italy, where goals from Andrea Pirlo and Paul Pogba possibly side of a Roberto possess idea gave them a points notwithstanding Alberto BotÃa and Delvin N’Dinga scoring for a visitors. Juventus midfielder Arturo Vidal missed an added-time penalty.
• The teams during a Juventus Stadium on 4 Nov 2014 were:
Juventus: Buffon, Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Chiellini, Asamoah (Pereyra 83), Marchisio (Padoin 71), Pirlo, Pogba, Vidal, Morata (Llorente 58), Tévez.
Olympiacos: Roberto, Maniatis (Diamantakos 83), Abidal, BotÃa, Masuaku, Milivojević, Afellay, N’Dinga (Kasami 77), Elabdellaoui, DomÃnguez (Fuster 72), Mitroglou.
• Juventus kick Olympiacos 7-0 when a clubs met in Turin in a organisation stage, on 10 Dec 2003. It was a Bianconeri’s corner biggest win in Europe and Olympiacos’s heaviest loss.
• The line-ups were:
Juventus: Chimenti, Birindelli, Iuliano (Zambrotta 84), Montero, Pessotto, Zalayeta, Tudor, Conte, Maresca, Trezeguet (Di Vaio 58), Miccoli (Del Piero 66).
Olympiacos: Eleftheropoulos, Pantos, Anatolakis (Georgiadis 68), Kostoulas, Venetidis, Mavrogenidis, Karembeu, Kafes (Gonias 61), Djordjević, Giovanni (Niniadis 77), Castillo.
• Gianluigi Buffon watched from a dais that night though did play in Juve’s 2-1 divided success during the Rizoupoli Stadium in Athens.
• Olympiacos’s usually other feat over Juve – 2-1 in Palermo in a 1999/2000 UEFA Cup third turn – was in a losing cause; they still went down 4-3 on aggregate.
Match background
Juventus
• Juventus mislaid last season’s final 4-1 to Real Madrid CF in Cardiff. They were also beaten by Barcelona on matchday one, a initial time given a 2014/15 organisation theatre they had mislaid unbroken European games; they have not suffered 3 defeats in a quarrel in Europe given 1993/94.
• The detriment to Madrid in a 2017 final finished Juve’s 12-match dominant European run (W9 D3).
• The Bianconeri are on a 23-match (W14 D9) dominant home run in UEFA competition, dating behind to a 2-0 retreat opposite FC Bayern München in Apr 2013.
• 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.
• Juve’s record during home to Greek clubs is W9 D1 L1 – their solitary improved that 2-1 retreat opposite Olympiacos in Palermo in Dec 1999.
Olympiacos
• Olympiacos are in a organisation theatre for an 18th time. They lost to Hapoel Beer-Sheva FC in final season’s third subordinate round, a initial time they had missed out on a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given 2010/11.
• In 2016/17, a Greek side went on to strech a UEFA Europa League turn of 16, falling 5-2 on total to Beşiktaş JK.
• The Piraeus bar warranted a place in this season’s subordinate rounds by winning their 44th Greek championship in 2016/17 – their seventh in a row.
• Olympiacos non-stop this deteriorate with a 5-3 total success opposite FK Partizan in a third subordinate turn (3-1 away, 2-2 home). They afterwards got a improved of HNK Rijeka in a play-off round, entrance by 2-1 during home and 1-0 away.
• The Greek side have won 3 of their final 4 divided European games, including both this season. In their final UEFA Champions League organisation campaign, in 2015/16, they won dual of their 3 divided fixtures.
• Olympiaco’ many new outing to Italy was that 2014 detriment during Juventus. Their record divided to Serie A sides is W3 D1 L7.
Coach and actor links
• Diogo Figueiras spent a initial half of 2015/16 on loan during Genoa CFC, creation his Serie A entrance in a 2-0 home improved opposite Juventus.
• Have played in Italy:
Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Genoa 2010–12, AC Cesena 2010/11, US Grosseto FC 2011, Hellas Verona FC 2011/12, AS Roma 2012/13, Calcio Catania 2013/14, Torino FC 2014, Genoa 2014–16, Verona 2014/15, Torino 2016–17, Cagliari Calcio 2016/17)
Uroš Djurdjević (US Città di Palermo, 2015/16)
Marko Marin (ACF Fiorentina, 2014/15)
Hrvoje Milić (Fiorentina, 2016/17)
• Have played together:
Miralem Pjanić Panagiotis Tachtsidis (AS Roma, 2012/13)
Federico Bernardeschi, Juan Cuadrado Marko Marin (ACF Fiorentina, 2014/15)
Alex Sandro Sebà (FC Porto, 2012/13)
• International team-mates:
Mario Mandžukić, Marko Pjaca Hrvoje Milić (Croatia)
Medhi Benatia Mehdi Carcela-González (Morocco)
• Marko Marin and captain Sami Khedira were both partial of Germany’s winning 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squad.
Match facts
Juventus
• Including a final dual games of final season, Juventus have won their final 7 Serie A fixtures.*
• Paulo Dybala noted his 100th Juventus coming with a hat-trick, his second of a campaign, as US Sassuolo Calcio were beaten 3-1 on 17 September.
• Overall, Dybala has scored 10 goals in 7 appearances for a Bianconeri this term.*
• Dybala is one hat-trick divided from relating Omar Sivori’s bar record from 1960/61 of 3 trebles in a fasten campaign.*
• Wojciech Szczęsny deputised for a complacent Gianluigi Buffon in a 1-0 home feat over ACF Fiorentina on 20 September, gripping his second purify piece in as many outings for Juventus.
• Mattia De Sciglio (out given 12 September, leg) and Claudio Marchisio (late August, knee) sojourn sidelined.*
• Pjaca has not played given ripping a cruciate vinculum in his right knee during Croatia’s accessible opposite Estonia on 28 March.
• Benedikt Höwedes is nonetheless to make his Juventus entrance after fasten a bar late in a summer send window before pang a thigh damage in training.*
Olympiacos
• The 3-2 detriment to Sporting on matchday one is Olympiacos’s solitary improved in 10 games this season.*
• Emmanuel Emenike scored twice as a Piraeus side started a Greek Cup organisation theatre with a 2-1 home win opposite Asteras Tripolis FC on 20 September. Olympiacos drew 1-1 opposite a same group in a fasten 3 days earlier.
• Kostas Fortounis (groin) and Thanasis Androutos (right ankle) postulated injuries in a crater fixture.*
• Jagoš Vuković suffered a hamstring damage while on general avocation with Serbia progressing this month and is approaching to be sidelined for another dual weeks.
• Alberto BotÃa, nonetheless to play this season, is lacking compare aptness after overcoming quad and calf injuries.*
*Subject to weekend updates