Ronaldo's coming!

The Turin team won 2-0 in the first round as a guest of Dinamo Kiev, but last week lost the same amount from FC Barcelona at home. The FTC started with a 5-1 defeat at the Catalans ’home and then stood up from 0-2 to a 2-2 draw at the Groupama Arena with the Ukrainians.

Juventus has been led by a new head coach since August as world champion and two-time BL winner Andrea Pirlo, led by a 41-year-old Italian professional, whose team shape is still undulating and the results do not reflect the dominance that has characterized the club in Italy for at least the last decade. . Although the guard is unbeaten in third place in Serie A, with three wins - one of which Napoli's opponent at the green table - three draws slipped, clearly against the surprise category against Verona and Crotone. This, of course, includes the team’s biggest star, five-time golden ball Cristiano Ronaldo, being unavailable since its coronavirus infection on October 11, and when he returned to Spezia’s home on Sunday, he scored two goals and Juve - for the first time since the opening round - won again, 4-1. Interestingly, since the Portuguese striker certified from Real Madrid to Turin in 2018, Juventus has won only 55 percent of the matches in which the star player did not play.

The Italian press was rather wryly welcomed last week’s BL defeat to Barcelona as Catalans played much more creatively and dangerously than their rivals, whose shot had only one goal, except, of course, for Álvaro Morata’s three undecided ambitions. Pirlo, like after every match, defended himself with the team still under construction and at the beginning of a long journey.

Ferencváros also suffered its only defeat of the season from Barcelona, in addition to which it has nine wins and five draws for each series, and five successes and two draws in the OTP Bank League. In the last round of NB I, Serhiy Rebrov's team reached a 1-1 draw at the White Castle home on Saturday, retaining a one-point lead over their rivals who played one game more at the top of the table. The Ukrainian specialist celebrated his jubilee with a lead over the Greens in his 100th stakes match, with 62 wins, 24 draws and 14 defeats.

The FTC and Juventus have met once before on the European Cup stage, in the 1965 Fair of the Fair Cities Cup final. The meeting in Turin on June 23 was won by the Greens with the goal scored by Máté Fenyvesi in the 74th minute.

This is the only significant trophy of the 31-time Hungarian champion Ferencváros on an international level, the 36-time Italian champion Juventus boasts much more success than this. Among other things, he twice won the BL and its predecessor, the BEK (1985 and 1996), and played a total of nine finals in the most prestigious European club series. A Hungarian team also got in its way, in 1973, in the quarterfinals of the BEK, they bid farewell to Újpest with goals scored away from Turin 0-0 (2-2). In addition, he met another Hungarian rival, in 1979 he knocked out the Győr ETO in the first round of the European Cup Winners' Cup with a 3-2 overall (2-0, 1-2).

The FTC has once again compared its knowledge with an Italian opponent at an event under the auspices of UEFA, remaining in the BEK quarter-finals in 1966 against the International with a 5-1 overall score (0-4, 1-1). In the VVK in the semi-finals of the 1967/68 season, Bologna was beaten by the Greens with a 5-4 overall (3-2, 2-2).

As for the missing, Albanian Myrto Uzuni alone cannot be deployed on the home side, while Juventus will also be injured by Giorgio Chiellini, Alex Sandro and Matthijs de Ligt, while Merih Demiral was issued last week, so this time he will be banned.

In Wednesday's match, with strict adherence to epidemiological regulations, there could be more than 15,000 people in the Puskás Arena, and the European Federation will allow as many spectators as the stadium can accommodate. The FTC has so far played its domestic BL matches at its own home, the Groupama Arena, but is moving to the country’s largest stadium against Juventus and Barcelona.

The clash, which starts at 9pm, in which Israeli Orel Grinfeld will blow the whistle, will be broadcast live by M4 Sport.

At another meeting of the G group on Wednesday, Dinamo Kiev will host the Camp Nou. The odds of the match are also host Barcelona, stumbling in the league, scoring just eight points in six laps and currently only in 12th place, with the Ukrainians leading their home championship unbeaten after eight rounds.

(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti / Photo: pixabay, mti)