Porto-Juve at 21: the official formations, there is Kulusevski | Direct

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At 21, Juventus takes to the field for the first leg of the knockout stages of the Champions League against Porto. The return leg will be played on Tuesday March 9 at the Allianz stadium in Turin.

19.54 – Porto, the official line-up

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These are the elections of Sergio Conceicao (4-4-2): Marchesin; Manafa, Mbemba, Pepe, Zaidu; Corona, Uribe, Sergio Oliveira, Otavio; Marega, Taremi.

19.52 – Juventus, the official team

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He confirmed the indiscretion about Kulusevski attacking partner of Cristiano Ronaldo instead of Morata. These are Pirlo’s options (3-5-2): Szczesny; Danilo, De Ligt, Chiellini; Chiesa, Rabiot, Bentancur, McKennie, Alex Sandro; Kulusevski, Ronaldo.

19.25 – Holding on to Ronaldo

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Cristiano Ronaldo has scored the last 7 Juventus goals in knockout matches. In total, the Portuguese has scored 67 goals in 81 knockout matches, including 62 in the last 66.

18.50 – Juve with the suitcase

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Juventus have won all three away games in the Champions League so far: in the first phase the Bianconeri have been successful in the fields of Dinamo Kiev (0-2), Ferencvaros (1-4) and Barcelona (0 -3).

18.05 – Juventus reaction

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Fresh from the league loss to Napoli, Juventus have always won this season after every lost match: 4-1 in La Spezia after Barcelona, ​​4-1 with Udinese after Fiorentina, 2-0 in the Super Cup with Naples after Burying

17.10 – Porto, clean defense

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The Porto is the only defender in the Champions League this edition that has not conceded a goal at home. Specifically, they have not conceded a goal in five games, the last goal conceded in Europe is the one scored on October 21 by Manchester City with Ferran Torres.

16.20 – How they arrived

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With 5 wins and 1 loss, the Bianconeri had won the first group stage ahead of Barcelona, ​​Dinamo Kiev and Ferencvaros. The Portuguese finished second in their group with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss behind Manchester City and ahead of Olympiacos and Olympique de Marseille.

12.13 – Kulusevski overtakes Morata

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Possible surprise in attack for Juventus in the face of the first leg of the knockout stages of the Champions League tonight at 9:00 p.m. in Porto: in the last hours the candidacy of Dejan Kulusevski has risen, instead of Álvaro Morata, with Cristiano Ronaldo. “Both are fine. Morata played a good game for Napoli and Kulusevski did it in the Italian Cup. We will evaluate who to play with tomorrow in the final stages ”, Pirlo said yesterday on the eve, adding about the Spaniard:“ He is not in the best stage, but we know him. During the season he has periods when he is not very well physically, he has had a muscle problem and the flu. But he’s happy, he’s fine: he just needs to score ”. Kulusevski has already played the first two games of the cup group with Morata, in the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo, but the pair with CR7 from the start would be a new player in the Champions League.

The probable formations

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Porto (4-4-2): Marchesin; Manafa, Mbemba, Pepe, Zaidu; Corona, Uribe, Sergio Oliveira, Otavio; Marega, Taremi.

Juve (3-5-2): Szczesny; Danilo, De Ligt, Chiellini; Chiesa, Rabiot, Bentancur, McKennie, Alex Sandro; Kulusevski, Ronaldo.

Statistics

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Juventus have accumulated 3 victories and a draw in the previous 4 in the Champions League against Porto. The only precedent between Porto and Juventus in the knockout stages of the Champions League dates back to the knockout stages of 2016/17. The Bianconeri won with an aggregate score of 3-0, but in both games the score was fixed at 0-0 before Porto were sent off in both halves of the games.

Where to see it

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Porto-Juve will be visible live exclusively on Sky, on Sky Sport Uno (number 201 for satellite; 472 for digital terrestrial) and Sky Sport (252 for satellite), as well as streaming on Sky Go. Live on gazzetta. that