Real Madrid reason all a aces for Juventus reunion
Real Madrid CF are within touching stretch of a place in an eighth unbroken UEFA Champions League semi-final after a widespread arrangement during Juventus, who need something unusual during a Santiago Bernabéu.
• Two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo – a second a overwhelming beyond bid – were combined to by Marcelo during a Juventus Stadium on 3 Apr to put Zinédine Zidane’s side in control of a tie. That 3-0 win finished Juve’s 27-game, five-year dominant home run in European competition.
• This will be a teams’ 21st contest. The 19th took place during a National Stadium of Wales in Cardiff on 3 Jun 2017, Madrid using out 4-1 winners to explain a 12th European title, apropos a initial organisation to keep a prize in a UEFA Champions League era, and overcoming Juve in a final for a second time following their 1998 success.
• Juventus, however, have won a sides’ final 4 two-legged knockout ties, and were a final side to discharge Madrid in a competition, violence them in a 2014/15 semi-finals.
Previous meetings
• All 20 of a teams’ prior meetings have come in a a European Cup. The initial leg was Madrid’s tenth win in matches opposite a Bianconeri; Juve have 8 victories with dual draws. Madrid now have 25 goals to Juve’s 22.
• In final season’s final, Madrid struck initial by Ronaldo, creation him a initial actor to measure in 3 UEFA Champions League finals. Though Mario Mandžukić’s fantastic beyond flog leveled before a mangle – a Croatian apropos a sixth actor to find a net in dual finals – second-half strikes from Casemiro (61), Ronaldo again (64) and Marco Asensio (90) took a prize to Madrid. Juve also mislaid Juan Cuadrado to an 84th-minute red card, a Colombian a third actor to be sent off in a European Cup final.
• The line-ups were:
Juventus: Buffon, Dani Alves, Barzagli (Cuadrado 66), Bonucci, Chiellini, Alex Sandro, Pjanić (Marchisio 71), Khedira, Mandžukić, Dybala (Lemina 78), HiguaÃn.
Real Madrid: Navas, Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo, Kroos (Morata 89), Casemiro, Modrić, Isco (Asensio 82), Ronaldo, Benzema (Bale 77).
• Their many new two-legged encounters came in a 2014/15 semi-finals, when Juve won 3-2 on aggregate. Goals from ex-Madrid striker Ãlvaro Morata – who played for a Merengues in a 2017 final – and Carlos Tévez gave Juve a 2-1 first-leg feat in Turin, notwithstanding Ronaldo’s reply.
• Ronaldo was again on aim in Madrid, usually for a 57th-minute equaliser from Morata to earn a 1-1 draw and take Juve into their initial final for 12 years.
• The line-ups during a Santiago Bernabéu on 13 May 2015 were:
Real Madrid: Casillas, Carvajal, Varane, Ramos, Marcelo, Kroos, Isco, James RodrÃguez, Bale, Benzema (Hernández 67), Ronaldo.
Juventus: Buffon, Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Chiellini, Evra, Marchisio, Pirlo (Barzagli 79), Vidal, Pogba (Pereyra 89), Morata (Llorente 84), Tévez.
• Madrid were 2-1 winners during a Bernabéu in a 2013/14 organisation stage with Ronaldo scoring twice in a initial 30 minutes. Juve have mislaid usually 3 of a final 9 matches between a span (W4 D2), nonetheless they have been beaten in a final two.
• Ronaldo has strike a aim in all 6 of his appearances opposite Juventus for Real Madrid – 9 goals in all.
• Juventus dangling Madrid in a 2004/05 turn of 16, a 2002/03 semi-finals and a 1995/96 quarter-finals, though Madrid claimed their seventh European Cup during Juve’s responsibility in 1998. Predrag Mijatović’s close-range bid in a 66th notation valid adequate to win that year’s UEFA Champions League final opposite a Juve side featuring stream Madrid manager Zinédine Zidane.
• The sides during a Amsterdam ArenA on 20 May 1998 were:
Juventus: Peruzzi, Pessotto (Fonseca 70), Torricelli, Montero, Iuliano, Di Livio (Tacchinardi 46), Deschamps (Conte 77), Davids, Zidane, Del Piero, Inzaghi.
Real Madrid: Illgner, Panucci, Hierro, SanchÃs, Roberto Carlos, Redondo, Karembeu, Seedorf, Raúl (Amavisca 90), Morientes (Jaime Sánchez 81), Mijatović (Å uker 90).
• Madrid have not beaten Juventus in a two-legged tie given a 1986/87 European Cup second round, when any side won their home leg 1-0. The Spanish side prevailed 3-1 in a chastisement shoot-out after a Turin second leg.
• The Merengues have won 5 of their 8 home matches opposite Juventus, losing dual and sketch a other.
Match background
Real Madrid
• Madrid are in a European Cup quarter-finals for a 35th time, some-more than any other side. Their record is W28 L6:
2016/17 FC Bayern München W 6-3 (2-1 a, 4-2 h)
2015/16 VfL Wolfsburg W 3-2 (0-2 a, 3-0 h)
2014/15 Club Atlético de Madrid W 1-0 (0-0 a, 1-0 h)
2013/14 Borussia Dortmund W 3-2 (3-0 h, 0-2 a)
2012/13 Galatasaray AÅž W 5-3 (3-0 h, 2-3 a)
2011/12 APOEL FC W 8-2 (3-0 a, 5-2 h)
2010/11 Tottenham Hotspur FC W 5-0 (4-0 h, 1-0 a)
2003/04 AS Monaco FC L 5-5, divided goals (4-2 h, 1-3 a)
2002/03 Manchester United FC W 6-5 (3-1 h, 3-4 a)
2001/02 FC Bayern München W 3-2 (1-2 a, 2-0 h)
2000/01 Galatasaray AÅž W 5-3 (2-3 a, 3-0 h)
1999/00 Manchester United FC W 3-2 (0-0 h, 3-2 a)
1998/99 FC Dynamo Kyiv L 1-3 (1-1 h, 0-2 a)
1997/98 Bayer 04 Leverkusen W 4-1 (1-1 a, 3-0 h)
1995/96 Juventus L 1-2 (1-0 h, 0-2 a)
1990/91 FC Spartak Moskva L 1-3 (0-0 a, 1-3 h)
1988/89 PSV Eindhoven W 3-2 (1-1 a, 2-1 h)
1987/88 FC Bayern München W 4-3 (2-3 a, 2-0 h)
1986/87 FK Crvena zvezda W 4-4 divided goals (2-4 a, 2-0 h)
1980/81 FC Spartak Moskva W 2-0 (0-0 a, 2-0 h)
1979/80 Celtic FC W 3-2 (0-2 a, 3-0 h)
1975/76 VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach W 3-3 divided goals (2-2 a, 1-1 h)
1972/73 FC Dynamo Kyiv W 3-0 (0-0 a, 3-0 h)
1967/68 AC Sparta Praha W 4-2 (3-0 h, 1-2 a)
1966/67 FC Internazionale Milano L 0-3 (0-1 a, 0-2 h)
1965/66 RSC Anderlecht W 4-3 (0-1 a, 4-2 h)
1964/65 SL Benfica L 3-6 (1-5 a, 2-1 h)
1963/64 AC Milan W 4-3 (4-1 h, 0-2 a)
1961/62 Juventus W 3-1 replay (1-0 a, 0-1 h)
1959/60 OGC Nice W 6-3 (2-3 a, 4-0 h)
1958/59 Wiener SC W 7-1 (0-0 a, 7-1 h)
1957/58 Sevilla FC W 10-2 (8-0 h, 2-2 a)
1956/57 OGC Nice W 6-2 (3-0 h, 3-2 a)
1955/56 FK Partizan W 4-3 (4-0 h, 0-3 a)
• The Merengues are in a quarter-finals for a eighth deteriorate in a row, a new bar record. They have won any of their final 7 quarter-finals, and need one some-more to compare their 8 unbroken last-eight victories between 1967/68 and 1988/89.
• The 12-time European champions have won 149 UEFA Champions League matches – their subsequent feat will make them a initial organisation to 150.
• Madrid have won their final 6 games opposite Italian opposition, going behind to that 2015 semi-final second leg opposite Juve. In final season’s turn of 16, they overcame SSC Napoli 3-1 both home and away.
• Although Madrid also separated AS Roma (2-0 a, 2-0 h) in a 2015/16 turn of 16, they had formerly mislaid 8 uninterrupted two-legged knockout ties opposite Italian opposition. The Merengues’ record in two-legged ties opposite Italian sides altogether is W12 L9.
• The Spanish side have mislaid usually one of their final 13 games opposite Serie A sides (W8 D4) – that better during Juve in a 2015 semi-final initial leg.
• The Merengues have won 34 of their final 40 UEFA Champions League home matches, losing usually once – 4-3 to FC Schalke 04 in their 2014/15 turn of 16 second leg, when they still prevailed 5-4 on aggregate.
• Zinédine Zidane’s charges collected 7 points during home in this season’s competition, beating APOEL 3-0 and Borussia Dortmund 3-2 either side of a 1-1 pull opposite Tottenham. They flog Paris Saint-Germain 5-2 on sum in a turn of 16 (3-1 home, 2-1 away).
• Ronaldo became a initial actor to measure in all 6 organisation games, induction 9 goals overall. He also struck in both legs of a final 16, and his first-leg double means he has continued his record of anticipating a net in any diversion this deteriorate and is a competition’s tip scorer with 14 goals. The usually actor to have bettered that sum is Ronaldo himself, with 17 goals in 2013/14 and 16 in 2015/16.
• Madrid have won 23 of their 32 home matches opposite Italian opponents (D3 L6).
• The Spanish bar have mislaid usually dual of their final 28 European fixtures, many recently a 3-1 better during Tottenham on matchday four, winning 20 and sketch six. Those draws embody a 2016 final opposite Atlético, that Madrid won on penalties in Milan.
• Madrid have mislaid usually one of a 32 UEFA foe ties in that they won a initial leg divided from home, many recently violence Bayern during this theatre final deteriorate (2-1 away, 4-2 home aet). The difference came opposite Odense BK in a 1994/95 UEFA Cup third turn when a 3-2 divided success preceded a 2-0 home reverse.
• Madrid’s shoot-out record in European foe is W2 L2:
5-3 v Club Atlético de Madrid, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League final
1-3 v FC Bayern München, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League semi-final
3-1 v Juventus, 1986/87 European Cup second round
5-6 v FK Crvena zvezda, 1974/75 European Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final
Juventus
• This is Juve’s 18th European Cup quarter-final; their record is W12 L5:
2016/17 FC Barcelona W 3-0 (3-0 h, 0-0 a)
2014/15 AS Monaco FC W 1-0 (1-0 h, 0-0 a)
2012/13 FC Bayern München L 0-4 (0-2 a, 0-2 h)
2005/06 Arsenal FC L 0-2 (0-2 a, 0-0 h)
2004/05 Liverpool FC L 1-2 (1-2 a, 0-0 h)
2002/03 FC Barcelona W 3-2 (1-1 h, 2-1 a aet)
1998/99 Olympiacos FC W 3-2 (2-1 h, 1-1 a)
1997/98 FC Dynamo Kyiv W 5-2 (1-1 h, 4-1 a)
1996/97 Rosenborg BK W 3-1 (1-1 a, 2-0 h)
1995/96 Real Madrid CF W 2-1 (0-1 a, 2-0 h)
1985/86 FC Barcelona L 1-2 (0-1 a, 1-1 h)
1984/85 AC Sparta Praha W 3-1 (3-0 h, 0-1 a)
1982/83 Aston Villa FC W 5-2 (2-1 a, 3-1 h)
1977/78 AFC Ajax W 3-0 penalties (1-1 a, 1-1 h)
1972/73 Újpest FC W 2-2 divided goals (0-0 h, 2-2 a)
1967/68 Eintracht Braunschweig W 1-0 replay (2-3 a, 1-0 h)
1961/62 Real Madrid CF L 1-3 replay (0-1 h, 1-0 a)
• Juve’s record in two-legged ties opposite Spanish clubs is W9 L6, a many new confront a 3-0 sum win opposite Barcelona during this theatre final deteriorate (3-0 home, 0-0 away).
• The Bianconeri have already faced Spanish antithesis in this season’s competition, losing 3-0 during Barcelona on matchday one before a goalless Turin pull on 22 November. Their winless run opposite Liga clubs is now 5 games (D2 L3).
• Juventus have played 57 games opposite Spanish clubs in UEFA competition, with a record W19 D15 L23 F62 A65.
• The initial leg was Juve’s corner heaviest home European defeat, equalling their 3-0 detriment opposite Manchester United FC in a 2002/03 second organisation theatre and a 4-1 better during home to Bayern on matchday 6 in 2009/10.
• Juve non-stop this European deteriorate with that better during Barcelona though were dominant in 7 games (W4 D3) before a initial leg, subordinate for a knockout stages interjection to a 2-0 win during Olympiacos FC on matchday six.
• Juve collected 4 points on their travels in this season’s organisation theatre to finish second behind Barcelona in Group D, picking adult a 1-1 pull during Sporting in between a better in Spain and win in Greece. In a turn of 16, they were hold 2-2 during home by Tottenham Hotspur FC though went by with a 2-1 second-leg divided win.
• 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 a Camp Nou on matchday one finished a six-game dominant divided run in Europe.
• Juventus won 3-1 during Sevilla FC on matchday 5 final term; that is their usually feat from their final 7 trips to Spain. Their altogether divided record opposite Liga antithesis is W4 D6 L16.
• This usually a second time Juventus have mislaid a home initial leg in UEFA competition. The usually prior arise was that 1962 European Cup quarter-final with Madrid, when they won 1-0 divided though mislaid a Paris replay 3-1.
• The Italian team’s shoot-out record is W3 L3:
2-3 v AC Milan, 2002/03 UEFA Champions League final
4-2 v AFC Ajax, 1995/96 UEFA Champions League final
1-3 v Real Madrid CF, 1986/87 European Cup second round
4-2 v Argentinos Juniors, 1985 European/South American Cup final
1-4 v Widzew Åódź, 1980/81 UEFA Cup second round
3-0 v Ajax, 1977/78 European Cup quarter-final
Coach and actor links
• Zidane represented Juve between 1996 and 2001, collecting dual Serie A titles and personification in a 1997 and 1998 UEFA Champions League final defeats, a latter opposite Madrid.
• Zidane’s chipped chastisement flog Gianluigi Buffon in a 2006 FIFA World Cup final in Berlin. The Frenchman was afterwards sent off in additional time in what was his final diversion as a player, before Italy prevailed on penalties.
• Massimiliano Allegri’s Milan lost 2-0 during Madrid – Ronaldo induction a initial idea – in a 2010/11 organisation stage, before a 2-2 pull during San Siro.
• Gonzalo HiguaÃn played for Madrid between 2007 and 2013, notching 121 goals in 264 games in all competitions and alighting 3 Liga titles.
• Sami Khedira was during Madrid between 2010 and 2015, winning a UEFA Champions League in 2014 and a Liga in 2012. He done 102 Liga outings, scoring 6 times.
• Mandžukić played for Atlético Madrid in 2014/15, confronting Real Madrid 7 times (W4 D2 L1). His usually defeat (0-1) came in a UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg.
• Mandžukić won both Liga derbies opposite Real Madrid with Atlético, concealment in a 4-0 home feat on 7 Feb 2015. He also struck in Atlético’s 2-1 sum delight in a Spanish Super Cup.
• Mateo KovaÄić played for FC Internazionale Milano between Jan 2013 and 2015; his record opposite Juve was W0 D2 L3.
• Buffon, Andrea Barzagli, Giorgio Chiellini and Claudio Marchisio played in Italy’s 4-0 better by a Spain side containing Sergio Ramos in a UEFA EURO 2012 final in Kyiv.
• Toni Kroos, starting alongside Khedira in Germany’s midfield, faced Buffon, Barzagli and Chiellini in a UEFA EURO 2016 quarter-finals. Both Barzagli and Kroos converted in a shoot-out as Germany prevailed.
• Chiellini got a initial idea as Italy scalped Spain 2-0 in a UEFA EURO 2016 turn of 16 to discharge a holders. Buffon and Barzagli also played for a Azzurri, with Ramos and Lucas Vázquez featuring for Spain.
• Ramos slotted home his chastisement as Spain flog Italy 7-6 on penalties in a 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup semi-final.
• Benzema scored and also missed a chastisement as France flog Stephan Lichtsteiner’s Switzerland 5-2 in a 2014 World Cup organisation stage.
• Isco scored twice past Buffon as Spain degraded Italy 3-0 in 2018 FIFA World Cup subordinate on 2 Sep 2017. Carvajal, Ramos and Asensio also featured for Spain; Barzagli and Federico Bernardeschi for Italy.
• Bernardeschi scored for Italy opposite Asensio’s Spain in a 2017 UEFA Under-21 European Championship semi-finals; Spain prevailed 3-1.
• Douglas Costa came on as a surrogate in both games for Bayern in final season’s 6-3 sum quarter-final better by Madrid. Ronaldo scored 5 goals in a tie, Asensio removing a other for Madrid.
• Ronaldo scored in any leg past Wojciech Szczęsny as Madrid degraded AS Roma 4-0 on sum in a 2015/16 turn of 16.
• Blaise Matuidi was in a Paris Saint-Germain organisation that drew 0-0 during home and mislaid 1-0 divided to Madrid in a 2015/16 organisation stage; Nacho Fernández got a usually idea of those dual games.
• International team-mates:
Raphaël Varane Blaise Matuidi (France)
Toni Kroos Sami Khedira (Germany)
Marcelo, Casemiro Alex Sandro (Brazil)
Luka Modrić, Mateo KovaÄić Mario Mandžukić (Croatia)
Achraf Hakimi Medhi Benatia (Morocco)
• Former club-mates:
Toni Kroos Mario Mandžukić (FC Bayern München, 2012–14)
Luka Modrić Mario Mandžukić (GNK Dinamo Zagreb, 2007/08)
Karim Benzema Miralem Pjanić (Olympique Lyonnais, 2008/09)
Match facts
Real Madrid
• Sergio Ramos is dangling after his engagement in Turin. Mateo KovaÄić is a engagement divided from a ban.
• Ronaldo has scored 14 goals in this season’s foe – 6 some-more than any other player. He has also had 29 shots on aim and 27 shots off target, also foe highs.
• Ronaldo has 25 goals in his final 14 games for bar and country, including dual in combined time as Portugal flog Egypt 2-1 on 23 March. He has scored in 9 uninterrupted appearances for Madrid.*
• Madrid have accessible 6 unbroken victories in all competitions and won 11 of a final 12, losing a other.*
• Madrid have won their final 5 home matches in all competitions, though before that run they had accessible usually one feat in a prior five, losing three. Their record during a Santiago Bernabéu this deteriorate is W14 D5 L4.*
• Zinédine Zidane’s side have scored 29 goals in their final 7 home matches in all competitions. Overall this deteriorate they have managed 61 home goals, surrender 27.*
• Madrid have kept usually 4 purify sheets in their final 20 games in all competitions, and one in a final 10 during home.*
• Gareth Bale has 6 goals in his final 4 games for bar and country, and has struck 10 times in 17 matches for Madrid in 2018.*
• The 1-0 detriment during RCD Espanyol on 27 Feb was Madrid’s fifth Liga better of a season, dual some-more than they suffered in their 2016/17 title-winning campaign.*
• Isco scored his initial career hat-trick as a Spain side also featuring Marco Asensio, Dani Carvajal, Ramos and surrogate Lucas Vázquez impressed Argentina 6-1 on 27 March.
• Ramos done his 150th general coming opposite Argentina, carrying also featured in a 1-1 pull with Germany 4 days earlier.
• Bale became Wales’ all-time tip scorer with 29 goals after a hat-trick opposite China on 22 March, leading Ian Rush’s sum of 28.
• Jesús Vallejo had not played given 18 Jan due to a hamstring problem before featuring for Spain’s Under-21 side in a 3-1 better of Estonia on 27 March; he also played 90 mins of Madrid’s 3-0 feat during UD Las Palmas on 31 March.
• Madrid carried a FIFA Club World Cup for a second year in a quarrel – and a third time in 4 years – with a 1-0 better of Brazil’s Grêmio FBPA on 17 December. Ronaldo scored a leader carrying also been on aim in a 2-1 semi-final win opposite Al Jazira Club of a UAE.
Juventus
• Paulo Dybala is criminialized after his first-leg red label while Rodrigo Bentancur is also dangling following his engagement in a initial game, nonetheless Miralem Pjanić and Medhi Benatia are accessible again after blank a diversion in Turin by suspension. Giorgio Chiellini and Alex Sandro will catch a anathema with their subsequent bookings.
• Madrid’s win in a initial diversion was usually Juve’s second home better in 76 matches in all competitions (W64 D10); a other was a 2-1 better opposite SS Lazio on 14 Oct 2017.*
• Juve’s better by Madrid also finished a 25-match dominant run in all competitions (W21 D4), given a 3-2 retreat during UC Sampdoria on 19 November.*
• The goalless pull during SPAL on 17 Mar finished Juve’s strain of 12 uninterrupted wins in Serie A, and a run of 11 succesive divided victories in all competitions. It was usually a second time a Bianconeri have unsuccessful to measure in a joining this season.*
• A idea from AC Milan’s former Juve defender Leonardo Bonucci on 31 Mar was a initial a Bianconeri have conceded in a joining in 2018, in their 11th fixture. Juve, who flog Milan 3-1, have conceded usually twice in their final 17 Serie A games.*
• Khedira’s idea opposite Milan was his seventh this deteriorate in Serie A – already his best sum in Turin. Alex Sandro has three, equalling his many inclusive deteriorate for a bar set final year.*
• Juan Cuadrado underwent groin medicine on 30 Jan and had not played given 23 Dec before returning as a second-half surrogate opposite Milan; he came on for a final 15 mins in a initial leg.*
• Federico Bernardeschi has not played given pang a knee damage in a 1-0 derby win opposite Torino FC on 18 February.*
• Benedikt Höwedes has been sidelined with a critical thigh damage given Nov and has been private from Juve’s UEFA Champions League squad, nonetheless he was among a substitutes opposite Milan.
• Buffon done his 500th joining coming for Juventus opposite Fiorentina on 9 February.
• Juve will play Milan in a Coppa Italia final during Rome’s Stadio Olimpico on 9 May – a Turin team’s fourth unbroken final.
• On 26 Mar Massimiliano Allegri won a “Panchina d’Oro” (Golden Bench) endowment as a best manager of a prior season, as voted by his peers.
*Subject to weekend updates