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After matchday four, Juventus secured early access to the Champions League playoffs, while Dynamo, by contrast, lost their chances of exiting the group. Therefore, in the remaining two games the teams will solve local problems: Old Lady will try to move Barcelona from first place, and Mircea Lucescu’s team will fight Ferencvaros Rebrov for a place in the Europa League to life or death.
Juventus need to score no fewer points than Barcelona in the fifth round to maintain their chances of winning the Quartet G. For the Dynamo, whatever the outcome, everything will be decided in a head-to-head meeting at NSC Olimpiyskiy with Ferencvaros. And whoever scores points in the fifth round will have an advantage over the head-to-head showdown.
Juventus is approaching the game with the Dynamo not in the best conditions. On Saturday Turin lost points again by failing to beat Benevento on the road. In Serie A, “Old Lady” occupies an unusual fourth place, with only four wins and five draws in nine games. According to the Italian press, after this match in the Turin dressing room, a conflict arose between some players and Andrea Pirlo for tactical reasons. Morata and Kulusevski apparently don’t quite understand what positions they should occupy in defense, and Pirlo doesn’t talk about that. It is unlikely, of course, that this is true, but the situation, frankly, is not healthy.
The clash with Benevento was conceded by Cristiano Ronaldo, who played 7 games for Juventus this season, in which he scored 9 goals and provided an assist. According to Pirlo, the Portuguese needed a break, so he was given a chance to rest. Why Cristiano decided not to rest in the Champions League match, which, in fact, has no tournament value for Juventus, the mentor did not elaborate. But something indicates that the Champions League scorer himself decided which game to play and which to rest. Even so, Cristiano is far from the goal record in Serie A …
Vitaly Mikolenko was probably delighted with the choice of the Portuguese. The Dynamo defender on the eve of the match with Barcelona regretted not being able to play against Lionel Messi (he missed the match in Barcelona due to the coronavirus). In Kiev, due to the coronavirus, Ronaldo himself did not play, but in Turin the meeting between Ronaldo and Mykolenko will take place. In the matches of the Ukrainian and Portuguese teams in the Euro 2020 qualifier, Mykolenko twice shut down Ronaldo. And after the Lisbon game, Ronaldo, when asked who he liked as part of the rival, replied: “His left back. Tough guy. “
In Turin, Mircea Lucescu will be able to count on Viktor Tsygankov and Gerson Rodríguez, who returned after the coronavirus. The Dynamo captain played the day before for Vorskla and was perhaps the team’s main option in attack, alongside Verbic, who acted as center forward. It is obvious that in the match against Juventus Lucescu will prefer the Slovenian in attack, who is better than Supryaga in catching the ball and, consequently, is more effective in attack.
But it was not without losses either. In pre-match training with Vorskla, Vitaly Buyalsky was injured and will most likely not play again this year. It’s a shame the midfielder was injured in a clash with teammate Denis Garmash. Instead of Buyalsky in Turin, both Garmash himself and Shepelev can play.
Juventus has questioned the central Demiral and Chiellini, as well as the legendary Buffon.
It is interesting that the Juventus – Dynamo match is judged by the referee. For the first time, a Champions League match was entrusted to 36-year-old French Stephanie Frappard, who previously served in the UEFA Super Cup between Chelsea and Liverpool in her international career, as well as three Europa League matches, including Leicester – Zorya.
Approximate compositions:
Juventus: Chesny, Danilo, Bonucci, de Ligt, Alex Sandro, Kulusevski, Rabio, Bentancourt, Bernardeschi, Morata, Cristiano Ronaldo
“Dynamo”: Buschan, Kendzera, Zabarny, Popov, Mikolenko, Shepelev, Sidorchuk, Shaparenko, De Pena, Tsygankov, Verbic
December 2, Wednesday
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