Juventus transport in certainty to Olympiacos
Juventus are good placed to take a second subordinate berth in Group D, nonetheless they would be suggested to be heedful of an Olympiacos FC side who hold FC Barcelona in their many new home fixture.
• With Barcelona already positive of initial position, Juve are second on 8 points, one some-more than Sporting Clube de Portugal, who contingency win in Spain to have any possibility of overtaking their Italian rivals. Juventus will be by with a win in Piraeus, or if Sporting destroy to benefit victory; if a teams finish turn on points, Juve have a higher head-to-head.
• Olympiacos have a singular indicate from their 5 games and will finish fourth.
Previous meetings
• Juventus have won 7 of a clubs’ 11 prior encounters, including all 5 fixtures played in Turin, and mislaid usually two.
• 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.
• The teams during a Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis on 22 Oct 2014 were:
Olympiacos: Roberto, Maniatis, Abidal, BotÃa, Masuaku, Milivojević, N’Dinga, Kasami (Giannoulis 90+1), Elabdellaoui, DomÃnguez (Fuster 85), Mitroglou (Afellay 69).
Juventus: Buffon, Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Chiellini, Asamoah, Ogbonna (Pereyra 77), Pirlo (Marchisio 57), Pogba (Giovinco 87), Vidal, Morata, Tévez.
• 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.
• Juventus kick Olympiacos 7-0 when a clubs met in Turin in a organisation stage, on 10 Dec 2003. It stays a Bianconeri’s corner biggest win in Europe and Olympiacos’s heaviest loss.
• 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
Olympiacos
• Olympiacos’ solitary indicate in Group D came in their final home game, a goalless pull opposite Barcelona. They were beaten 3-2 by Sporting on matchday one.
• The Piraeus’ club’s record during home to Italian visitors is W3 D4 L4. The 2014 improved of Juve aside, a many new tie was a 1-1 pull opposite SS Lazio in a 2007/08 organisation stage.
• Olympiacos have won usually 3 of their final 13 European home matches (D6 L4).
• 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.
• That home feat opposite a Croatian organisation was Olympiacos’s initial in 5 European home games, finale a run of 4 unbroken draws on their possess ground.
• 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. This will be a initial deteriorate they have finished bottom of their territory given 2006/07.
Juventus
• Juve have nonetheless to win on their travels in this season’s competition, losing 3-0 during Barcelona on matchday one before a 1-1 pull during Sporting in their fourth fixture.
• 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 only one idea conceded to 12 scored. Defeat during a 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.
• The Bianconeri’s record in Greece is W4 D3 L4. The 2014 detriment during Olympiacos was their many new trip.
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:
Panagiotis Tachtsidis Miralem Pjanić (AS Roma, 2012/13)
Marko Marin Federico Bernardeschi, Juan Cuadrado (ACF Fiorentina, 2014/15)
Sebà Alex Sandro (FC Porto, 2012/13)
• International team-mates:
Hrvoje Milić Mario Mandžukić, Marko Pjaca (Croatia)
Mehdi Carcela-González Medhi Benatia (Morocco)
• Marko Marin and captain Sami Khedira were both partial of Germany’s winning 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squad.