Comments and predictions for Juventus vs Sporting Lisbon: Home team wins hard
The match between Juventus vs Sporting Lisbon in the Champion League takes place at 3:00 a.m. on November 5. Nghe An Newspaper, Radio and Television analyzes performance, comments on football and predicts the score.
Latest Juventus vs Sporting Lisbon squad information
Luciano Spalletti surprisingly stuck with Igor Tudor's signature three-man defence in his debut – albeit with a more flexible variation – so Juventus could continue to use the same formation as the win over Cremonese.
South American centre-back pair Bremer and Juan Cabal remain injured, but Kenan Yildiz (knee) and Lloyd Kelly (muscle) could return after missing last weekend.
Juve's attack has been in flux this season, but Dusan Vlahovic has started the last two games alongside Lois Openda, while Jonathan David appears to have been left out of the plans.
Vlahovic has been involved in 11 goals in 19 Champions League appearances so far, while Sporting star Pedro Gonçalves has been involved in nine goals in 16 games – the most in the club's history.
Gonçalves will continue to play alongside Francisco Trincão and Geovany Quenda up front, supporting strikers Ioannidis or Luis Suárez.
Sporting are still without two long-term injured key players in Nuno Santos and Daniel Bragança. In addition, Zeno Debast is not sure to recover in time, while right-back Ivan Fresneda had to leave the field due to injury against Alverca and could be replaced by Georgios Vagiannidis.
Latest expected lineup Juventus vs Sporting Lisbon
Juventus:
Di Gregorio; Kalulu, Rugani, Gatti; Cambiaso, Thuram, Locatelli, Koopmeiners, Kostic; Openda, Vlahovic
Sporting Lisbon:
Silva; Vagiannidis, Diomande, Inacio, Araujo; Hjulmand, Morita; Quenda, Trincao, Goncalves; Suarez
Latest football commentary on Juventus vs Sporting Lisbon
After two dramatic draws – 4-4 against Borussia Dortmund and 2-2 with Villarreal – Juventus face their toughest test yet in the Champions League when they travel to the Bernabeu.
Despite their best efforts, the Bianconeri suffered a defeat to Real Madrid, extending their poor run of form. After eight consecutive games without a win in all competitions, Italy's most successful club have decided to part ways with coach Igor Tudor, hoping to halt their decline.
Under interim coach Massimo Brambilla, Juventus finally ended their winless streak with a 3-1 win over Udinese — a match that also paved the way for the arrival of a veteran manager.
Former Napoli and Italy coach Luciano Spalletti has been appointed on a temporary deal until the end of the season, making his debut in a Serie A match against Cremonese, which coincided with the club's 128th anniversary.
Spalletti's start could not have been better, with Filip Kostic scoring after just two minutes, then Andrea Cambiaso doubling the lead in the 60th minute. Despite Jamie Vardy's late equaliser, Juventus still took all three points.
This victory helps Juve stay close to the top of Serie A, but now they need to focus on the task of reviving their form in the European arena.
Dating back to last season, Juventus have won just two of their last 11 Champions League games — however, they do have a good head-to-head record against this week's opponents.
The Bianconeri are unbeaten in four meetings with Sporting Lisbon, winning both in Turin, including knocking out the Portuguese side in the quarter-finals of the 2023 Europa League.
Tuesday's match will be Sporting's 20th competitive game on Italian soil, and they are still looking for their first win, having lost 14 times.
The Portuguese side have also fallen in Italy in three of the last four seasons, including defeat to Juventus in the Europa League and last month's defeat to Napoli.
Sporting have lost three consecutive away games in the Champions League by the same scoreline, 1-2, but they are still five points ahead of Juve in the group.
This season, Sporting opened with a 4-1 home win over Kairat, then lost in Naples, then beat Marseille in the last round.
In the match against Marseille, they fell behind but came back after their opponents were sent off before half-time.
The second half saw Sporting put on a tremendous amount of pressure, and substitutes Geny Catamo and Alisson Santos scored to keep their hopes of a direct knockout round alive.
In the Primeira Liga, Sporting made it five wins in a row in all competitions after beating Alverca 2-0 on Friday, with Fotis Ioannidis and Pedro Gonçalves on target. They are now level on points with leaders Porto and head to Turin in high spirits.
Latest score prediction for Juventus vs Sporting Lisbon
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Juventus vs Sporting Lisbonas follows:
- Sportsmole:Juventus 2-1 Sporting Lisbon
- WhoScore:Juventus 2-0 Sporting Lisbon
- We predict:Juventus 2-1 Sporting Lisbon
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