Juventus and Manchester United meet in the 4th round of the H group in the UEFA Champions League. The duel on the Allianz Stadium will be played on Wednesday at 20:00.
Two weeks ago, the Italian champion managed to make an important step towards winning the H group with the success of Old Trafford, score 1-0, the goal of the victory being scored by the Argentinean Paolo Dybala in the 17th minute. By that duel, each band had 4 wins in direct confrontations, 9th in a tie. The last direct Italian match was played in 2003, when United, led by Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Ryan Giggs, managed to make a 3-0 final.
With three possible victories, Torino is very close to mathematically present in the 8th finals of this season’s UEFA Champions League. With a 6-0 goalie, Massimiliano Allegri’s students dominated the opponents in this group, Manchester United (1-0), Valencia (2-0) and Young Boys (3-0), and this would could also happen in the Wednesday duel.
In the championship, Juve continues to march to a new title, being ranked first, with 31 points, 6 in front of the second-place team, Inter Milan.
Paulo Dybala is the best marketer of the Torinoes in the current European season, with 4 successes, 3 of which came in the last match on this stadium, played by a girl at Young Boys.
Douglas Costa, Mario Mandzukic and Blaise Matuidi are the players who have all chances to miss this duel for the Italian champion, all three having medical problems.
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Jose Mourinho’s “Devils” do not cross a season in the Premier League with 20 points gathered in 11 stages and a 7th placement. The situation is much better in the Champions League, where it is ranked second in group H, with 6 points, but a failure suffered on the Allianz Stadium, could endanger the qualification in the 8th finals, Valencia being ranked in the position 3rd, just two points behind the British.
Paul Pogba is the best scorer of the team in the current UEFA Champions League season, with two successes, both coming in the United Young Boys victory, 3-0, this being the only match in this group in which Mourinho’s band he managed to score.
Juventus: Szczesny – Cancelo, Bonucci, Benati, De Sciglio – Bentancur, Pjanic, Khedira – Cuadrado, Ronaldo, Dybala;
Manchester United: De Gea – Young, Smalling, Lindelof, Shaw – Matic, Herrera, Pogba – Rashford, Sanchez, Martial;
PREDICTION: Juventus to win @ 1.60
