On Wednesday night, at 20:00, Juventus and Dinamo Kiev will face each other in the 5th round of the UEFA Champions League groups. Mircea Lucescu’s team still has big team problems and the Romanian manager cannot count on several important players, while Andrea Pirlo has only two certain absentees, Demiral and Chiellini. Obviously, Italians are big favorites at home.
In group G, the dice have already been rolled. Barcelona has 12 points in 4 matches (goal difference 13-2) and is followed in the standings by Juventus, with 9 points (goal difference 8-4). Dinamo Kiev is on the 3rd place, with only one point, just like Ferencvaros. The last two ranked teams can no longer make claims in the spring of UCL, but they will fight until the last moment for the Europa League place. So the stakes are high.
Juventus has all the statistics on its side, with four victories in the last four direct matches played against Dinamo Kiev. In the round, Juventus won in Ukraine 2-0, with goals scored by Morata (’46 and ’84). It was a very well managed match by the Turinese, who had no emotions about the success. Juventus have scored 13 goals in the last four matches played against Dinamo Kiev, and the series can continue on Wednesday. However, Juventus does not have an enviable defense, receiving a goal in 4 of the last 5 matches played. Even so, the difference in value is clear and Andrea Pirlo’s team has very good statistics on their own field.
Juventus comes after a 1-1 away match with Benevento, in the championship, previously winning the matches with Ferencvaros (4-1), Cagliari (2-0) and again Ferencvaros (2-1). Dinamo Kiev is in a positive moment in the championship, with recent victories against Inhulets (2-0) and Vorskla Poltava (2-0). In the previous round of the Champions League, the Ukrainians lost at home to Barcelona, score 0-4, with a decimated group of Il Luce. And on Wednesday night, Lucescu will be deprived of the services of Besiedin, Burda, Kostevych, Rusyn, Sydorchuk, Tymchyk, Duelund, Rodrigues and Shabanov, so that the guest reserve bank will not offer too many saving options.
For the 7th time in a row, Juve qualified for the Champions League in the spring, but the domestic course was not great at all: 5 draws in the first 9 stages. As usual, Morata will be Juve’s main attacker, who hopes to make a good possession game at home. Statistics show that Turinese are in the habit of scoring or receiving goals fairly quickly, so betting on an open match, on many occasions, can be a winner again. At Fortuna you can play tickets on football matches with a 15% bonus, which you can take advantage of at any time!
Juventus: Buffon; Cuadrado, Danilo, Bonucci, Frabotta; Bentancur, McKennie; Bernadeschi, Church, Kulusevski; Morata
Coach: Andrea Pirlo
Dynamo Kiev: Bushchan; Kedziora, Popov, Zabarnyi, Mykolenko; Andriyevskyi, Shaparenko; Tsygankov, Shepelev, of Pena; verb
Coach: Mircea Lucescu
In 7 of the last 8 matches of Juventus the score was opened until the 21st minute;
Alvaro Morata has been involved in 42.3% of the goals scored by Juventus this season;
At least two goals have been scored in the last 27 official matches of Juventus;
In the last 4 matches played by Juventus, only one of the teams scored;
Juventus has 4 victories and a draw in the 5 direct matches played against Dinamo Kiev;
PREDICTION: Over 2,5 goals @ 1,68
