Champions League: Juventus eye revenge against Real Madrid

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In that event, the Spanish club cavorted to a 4-1 triumph to give them a moment continuous Champions League title. In any case, they will confront a harder rival over the two legs of this present season's quarter-last. 


Not exclusively is Real's shape not what it was last season, but rather Juventus are presently a more refined group, digging out from a deficit to beat Tottenham at Wembley a month ago while on Saturday, they moved four focuses clear at the highest point of Serie A with a 3-1 prevail upon AC Milan. 

Gotten some information about today around evening time's conflict, Juve mentor Massimiliano Allegri stated: "We will battle against Real Madrid with authenticity and desire… It will be an awesome diversion, yet our need remains Serie A." 

Genuine, interestingly, lie third in La Liga, four focuses on Atletico Madrid and an astounding 14 short of pioneers Barcelona. With their opponents essentially ensured the residential crown, the Galacticos' concentration is a third straight European title, an accomplishment last accomplished by Bayern Munich in the 1970s.

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For Real mentor Zinedine Zidane, the quarter-last conflict is a gathering of a club for whom he showed up before marking for the Madrid side in 2001. He was an individual from the Spanish group when they last played in Turin, a 2-0 crush in the last 16 of the 2004-05 Champions League 

"It's another diversion, another opposition. We know we need to go to Juve with aspiration and we need to go there to score," said Zidane, in the wake of his side's 3-0 prevail upon Las Palmas on Saturday. 

Juventus have Juan Cuadrado and Giorgio Chiellini fit again after damage lay-offs and Zidane has additionally gotten a lift on that front with focus back Nacho Fernandez fit to move in spite of limping off with a lower leg damage on Saturday. 

Cristiano Ronaldo, Marcelo, and Toni Kroos were refreshed on Saturday and Gareth Bale exploited their nonappearance to assert some authority for a place in today around evening time's beginning XI. 

The Welshman scored twice, however, Zidane was remaining mum in the matter of whether he would keep utilizing him from the seat in the Champions League. 

"I'm extremely satisfied with his execution," he said. "You'll need to sit back and watch on the off chance that he plays [tonight]." 

It was Bale's pace that got the attention of Las Palmas, the 28-year-old exceeding their protection to open the scoring halfway through the main half. His second was from the punishment spot and Karim Benzema scored in a comparable manner in his 400th appearance without a doubt.




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