Juventus and Barcelona is playing tonight at 20:45 at the Allianz Stadium in
Turin. This is the fifth and final game of Group D of the Champions League for both teams. Barcelona is the first in the
group with 10 points. Juventus has 7 points and is in second place.
Match Details:
Juventus vs. Barcelona
Champions League Group
Stage
Date: 22 November 2017;
Time: 20:45
Venue: Allianz Stadium
(Turin)
Further back are the Sporting Lisbon with 4 points and
Olympiakos with 1 point. On the last day, December 5, Juventus will play away
with Olympiakos and Barcelona at
home with Sporting Lisbon. The first two will go to the final eight; the third
will go to the Europa League.
The important thing to know, by doing a few calculations, is
that Juventus is in the lead in the
direct confrontations with Sporting Lisbon: if the two teams were to finish the
group with the same points, it would pass Juventus.
It is not one of those matches where Juventus is "forced to win"; it could also lose and
qualify anyway. Winning however would allow Juventus to try to pass the eighths
as the first team in the group. In addition Juventus comes from a bad defeat
for 3-2 in the league against Sampdoria and this year is generally having many
more problems than in the past.
The match between Barcelona and Juventus ended 3-0:
Juventus started pretty well in the first few minutes but then got off a bit
and two goals from Messi and a goal of Rakitić, the Croatian player who
recently made great applause for Gianluigi Buffon, Juventus goalkeeper.