Juventus distance adult Barcelona challenge
Juventus have bounced behind strongly from their matchday one better during FC Barcelona, and a repeat of a outcome in final season’s quarter-final initial leg would take a Bianconeri turn on points with a Spanish side during a tip of Group D.
• Barcelona avenged last season’s last-eight loss with a 3-0 feat opposite Juve during a Camp Nou on a initial matchday in September, and are 3 points transparent during a tip of a territory with 10 points.
• Barcelona will be by as organisation winners with a draw. They will also validate even if they remove should third-placed Sporting Clube de Portugal not win during home to Olympiacos FC.
• Juventus have 7 points, 3 some-more than Sporting and 6 forward of Olympiacos. They are by if they equivocate better supposing Sporting do not win.
Previous meetings
• Juve laid a grounds for final season’s rejecting of Barcelona in Turin, where two goals from Paulo Dybala (7, 22) were supplemented by Giorgio Chiellini’s strike (55). The second leg at a Camp Nou finished goalless.
• The line-ups in Turin on 11 Apr were:
Juventus: Buffon, Dani Alves, Bonucci, Chiellini, Alex Sandro, Khedira, Pjanić (Barzagli 89), Cuadrado (Lemina 73), Dybala (Rincón 81), Mandžukić, HiguaÃn.
Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Sergi Roberto, Piqué, Umtiti, Mathieu (André Gomes 46), Mascherano, Iniesta, Rakitić, Messi, Suárez, Neymar.
• The teams also met in a 2015 UEFA Champions League final in Berlin, where Barcelona triumphed 3-1 to take a prize for a fifth time. Ivan Rakitić gave Luis Enrique’s side a fourth-minute lead and, yet Ãlvaro Morata leveled for Massimiliano Allegri’s Juve 10 mins after half-time, Luis Suárez (68) and Neymar (90+7) hermetic Barça’s fourth success in 10 years.
• The line-ups during a Olympiastadion on 6 Jun 2015 were:
Juventus: Buffon, Lichtsteiner, Barzagli, Bonucci, Evra (Coman 89), Marchisio, Pirlo, Pogba, Vidal (Pereyra 79), Morata (Llorente 85), Tévez.
Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Dani Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Alba, Busquets, Rakitić (Mathieu 90+1), Iniesta (Xavi 78), Messi, Suárez (Pedro 90+6), Neymar.
• That was Barça’s third feat over Juve, and their initial given 1991. Then, Johan Cruyff’s charges kick a Juventus side coached by Gigi Maifredi 3-1 during home in their European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final initial leg with goals from Hristo Stoichkov (56, 60) and Jon Andoni Goikoetxea (76). They overturned Pierluigi Casiraghi’s 12th-minute opener for Juve, who went out notwithstanding winning a second leg 1-0 with a 61st-minute Roberto Baggio strike.
• That was a clubs’ second tie. The initial came in a 1985/86 European Champion Clubs’ Cup quarter-finals when Barcelona again prevailed, Julio Alberto removing a usually idea of a Camp Nou initial leg. Barça struck initial in a Turin lapse too, by Steve Archibald, and modernized notwithstanding Michel Platini’s 44th-minute equaliser.
• However, Juve suspended a Blaugrana in a 2002/03 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. The initial diversion in Turin finished 1-1, Javier Saviola’s 78th-minute bid equalising Paolo Montero’s 16th-minute breakthrough for a hosts.
• In a second leg during a Camp Nou, Xavi Hernández’s 66th-minute strike cancelled out Pavel NedvÄ›d’s idea for Juve 13 mins progressing and sent a tie to additional time, with Juve reduced to 10 organisation by Edgar Davids’s 79th-minute dismissal. With penalties looming, Juve surrogate Marcelo Zalayeta got a wilful idea (114) to take a 10 organisation into a final four.
• Barcelona reason a slight corner in a teams’ 10 encounters so far, carrying purebred 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats, with 13 goals scored and 10 conceded.
Match background
Juventus
• A 2-0 feat opposite Olympiacos and 2-1 win opposite Sporting on matchday three have stretched a Bianconeri’s dominant home run in UEFA foe to 25 games (W16 D9), dating behind to a 2-0 retreat opposite FC Bayern München in Apr 2013.
• Juve’s altogether home record opposite Liga antithesis is W15 D8 L2. They are dominant in their final 8 such matches (W5 D3) and have mislaid usually one of a final 24 (W15 D8), against RC Deportivo La Coruña in a 2003/04 turn of 16 (0-1).
• Juventus mislaid last season’s final 4-1 to Real Madrid CF in Cardiff.
• 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 on their final 3 attempts, carrying finished third in their territory in 2013/14.
Barcelona
• Barcelona’s record divided to Serie A clubs is W6 D9 L6. They are but a win in their final 5 trips (D3 L2).
• Barcelona were 1-0 victors during Sporting on matchday two but drew 0-0 during Olympiacos final time out. They have mislaid 3 of their final 6 divided games in a UEFA Champions League, including a 4-0 better during Paris in final season’s turn of 16 initial leg and a eventually essential 3-0 quarter-final first-leg detriment during Juve. They have won 5 of their final 13 divided matches in a competition, sketch 3 and losing five.
• This is Barcelona’s record-equalling 22nd UEFA Champions League organisation theatre campaign, and 14th in succession. They final unsuccessful to make a final 16 in 2000/01, nonetheless they did not take partial in a 2003/04 tournament.
• The Blaugrana final unsuccessful to swell over a turn of 16 in 2006/07; their final dual campaigns have been finished in a quarter-finals, by Juventus final deteriorate and Club Atlético de Madrid in 2015/16.
Coach and actor links
• Allegri suffered UEFA Champions League rejecting opposite Barça in back-to-back seasons as Milan coach, in a 2011/12 quarter-finals (1-3) and a 2012/13 turn of 16 (2-4). His full record in 11 games contra a Blaugrana is W2 D3 L6.
• Have played in Spain:
Mario Mandžukić (Club Atlético de Madrid, 2014/15)
Sami Khedira (Real Madrid, 2010–15)
Gonzalo HiguaÃn (Real Madrid, 2007–13)
• Have played in Italy:
Gerard Deulofeu (AC Milan, 2017)
Thomas Vermaelen (AS Roma, 2016/17)
Lucas Digne (AS Roma, 2015/16)
• Khedira scored Real Madrid’s opener in a 2-1 Liga win during Barcelona in 2012, his usually idea in 18 matches opposite a Azulgrana with VfB Stuttgart and Madrid.
• HiguaÃn played 18 times opposite Barcelona in all competitions during his spell during Madrid, notching 3 goals.
• Mandžukić got Atlético’s idea from a chastisement mark in a 3-1 Liga better during Barcelona on 11 Jan 2015.
• Lucas Digne was during Roma in 2015/16, scoring 3 goals in 33 Serie A outings and personification alongside Juventus midfielder Miralem Pjanić.
• Have also played together:
Benedikt Höwedes Ivan Rakitić (FC Schalke 04, 2007–11)
Gonzalo HiguaÃn Javier Mascherano (River Plate, 2004/05)
Mario Mandžukić Arda Turan (Clube Atlético de Madrid, 2014/15)
Blaise Matuidi Lucas Digne (Paris Saint-Germain, 2013–15)
De Sciglio Deulofeu (AC Milan, 2016/17)
Wojciech Szczęsny Thomas Vermaelen (Arsenal FC, 2010–14)
• International team-mates:
Sami Khedira, Benedikt Höwedes Marc-André ter Stegen (Germany)
Gonzalo HiguaÃn, Paulo Dybala Lionel Messi, Javier Mascherano (Argentina)
Alex Sandro Rafinha (Brazil)
Mario Mandžukić, Marko Pjaca Ivan Rakitić (Croatia)
Blaise Matuidi Ousmane Dembélé, Samuel Umtiti, Lucas Digne (France)
• Denis Suárez scored opposite HiguaÃn’s Napoli as Villarreal squeezed past a Partenopei 2-1 on aggregate in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League turn of 32.
• Samuel Umtiti was in Olympique Lyonnais’ B group when Pjanić played for a comparison side between 2008 and 2011.
• Gianluigi Buffon, Andrea Barzagli and Mattia De Sciglio were in a Italy side and Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Andrés Iniesta featured for Spain in a 1-1 2018 FIFA World Cup subordinate draw in Oct 2016.Â
• The Spanish party also played as Spain kick Italy 3-0 in Madrid on 2 September, with Buffon, Barzagli and surrogate Federico Bernardeschi concerned for a visitors.
• Chiellini struck initial as Italy felled Spain 2-0 in a UEFA EURO 2016 turn of 16. Buffon and Barzagli were also in a Azzurri side while Piqué, Alba, Busquets and Iniesta figured for Spain.
• Iniesta, Piqué and Busquets converted mark kicks past Buffon as Spain edged Italy 7-6 on penalties in a 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup semi-final.
• Alba dismissed Spain’s second idea past Buffon in a 4-0 delight over Italy in a UEFA EURO 2012 final. Piqué, Busquets and Iniesta were also in a Spain group while a Azzurri enclosed Barzagli, Chiellini and Claudio Marchisio.
• Bernardeschi netted Italy’s idea in a 3-1 better by a Spain side including Deulofeu and surrogate Denis Suárez in a 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship semi-finals in June. Daniele Rugani also played for Italy.