Champions League match preview: Chelsea versus Juventus

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Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Tue 23.November
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stamford Bridge (41798 seats)

Chelsea and Juventus get a break from their league challenge to fight for a possible trophy in this Champions League Group Stage fixture.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Juventus have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1200 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Chelsea form and stats

Chelsea have performed here at Stamford Bridge this season with 4 wins from 6 Premier League matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 1. 3W-0D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Chelsea.

Chelsea are returning here after visiting Leicester City in a Premier League game and winning with a 3-0 scoreline. Christian Pulišić, N'Golo Kanté and Antonio Rüdiger scored the goal(s). Defender Antonio Rüdiger got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.11/10. Rüdiger scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 5 of 7 duels.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Burnley that ended 1-1.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Chelsea's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played four games, won one match, drawn three and lost zero.

Chelsea are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stamford Bridge in their league games, having scored an impressive 17 goals in 6 matches. As for guarding their own goal, Chelsea have only let in 3 goals at home.

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Juventus form and stats

They also participated in Champions League last season. This ended in the 8th finals, when Porto drew the shortest straw.

The visitors are W3-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Serie A. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Champions League stats, they have 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away.

256 minutes! That's how long the Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Two travels in a row for Juventus, whose manager M. Allegri could celebrate last time after the Serie A win against Lazio. Leonardo Bonucci was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.54. The defender Bonucci scored two goals, hit two key passes and won 1 of 2 duels.

Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Fiorentina in the Serie A.

After this away game Juventus return home for a Serie A game against Atalanta. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The travelling fans enjoy Juventus's attacking play in away games, having scored 11 goals in 7 league matches away. Juventus have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Juventus - Chelsea 1-0 was the scoreline in these teams' latest H2H fixture, earlier this season. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's one Chelsea victory, two draws and two Juventus wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

ChelseaR. James
R. James
4 goals
ChelseaB. Chilwell
B. Chilwell
3 goals
ChelseaM. Mount
M. Mount
3 goals

Chelsea missing players

Juventus missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Chelsea Juventus
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   13 25
16 7   Won W   8 17
6 5   Drew D   2 3
3 1   Lost L   3 5
49 29   Scored S   23 46
15 9   Conceded C   15 28
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
76% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   85% 76%
52% 54%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   69% 64%
16% 31%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   23% 32%
4% 8%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   15% 20%
44% 54%   BTTS BTTS   62% 64%
48% 38%   Clean Sheets C S   31% 28%
8% 8%   Failed to Score F T   8% 8%
 
6.4 7.1   Corners for (avg) C F   3.7 3.6
4.4 4.5   Corners against (avg) C A   4.5 4.7
1.4 1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.7
2 0   Red cards R C   0 1
 
16.1 16.8   Shots (avg) S (   13.8 13.6
6.3 7   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.9 4.9
31% 32%   Goal Efficiency G E   36% 37%
 
8.4 8.1   Shots against (avg) S A   12 11.2
3.1 3.1   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.7 3.4

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Juventus 4 4 0 0 9 2 2 2 0 0 5 2 2 2 0 0 4 0 7 12
2 Chelsea 4 3 0 1 6 1 2 2 0 0 5 0 2 1 0 1 1 1 5 9
3 Zenit 4 1 0 3 6 6 2 1 0 1 4 1 2 0 0 2 2 5 0 3
4 Malmö FF 4 0 0 4 0 12 2 0 0 2 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 8 -12 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Chelsea 12 9 2 1 30 4 6 4 1 1 17 3 6 5 1 0 13 1 26 29
2 Manchester City 12 8 2 2 25 6 6 4 1 1 15 2 6 4 1 1 10 4 19 26
3 Liverpool 12 7 4 1 35 11 6 3 3 0 14 5 6 4 1 1 21 6 24 25
4 West Ham United 12 7 2 3 23 14 6 3 1 2 12 9 6 4 1 1 11 5 9 23
5 Arsenal 12 6 2 4 13 17 6 4 1 1 10 6 6 2 1 3 3 11 -4 20
6 Wolverhampton Wanderers 12 6 1 5 12 12 6 3 0 3 5 6 6 3 1 2 7 6 0 19
7 Tottenham Hotspur 12 6 1 5 11 17 6 4 0 2 6 8 6 2 1 3 5 9 -6 19
8 Manchester United 12 5 2 5 20 21 6 2 1 3 10 11 6 3 1 2 10 10 -1 17
9 Brighton & Hove Albion 12 4 5 3 12 14 6 2 2 2 6 8 6 2 3 1 6 6 -2 17
10 Crystal Palace 12 3 7 2 18 17 6 2 4 0 9 4 6 1 3 2 9 13 1 16
11 Everton 12 4 3 5 16 19 6 3 1 2 10 8 6 1 2 3 6 11 -3 15
12 Leicester City 12 4 3 5 16 21 6 2 1 3 7 10 6 2 2 2 9 11 -5 15
13 Southampton 12 3 5 4 11 14 6 2 3 1 5 4 6 1 2 3 6 10 -3 14
14 Brentford 12 3 4 5 16 17 6 1 1 4 7 9 6 2 3 1 9 8 -1 13
15 Aston Villa 12 4 1 7 16 20 6 3 1 2 11 8 6 1 0 5 5 12 -4 13
16 Watford 12 4 1 7 16 20 6 2 1 3 8 12 6 2 0 4 8 8 -4 13
17 Leeds United 12 2 5 5 12 20 6 1 3 2 6 9 6 1 2 3 6 11 -8 11
18 Burnley 12 1 6 5 14 20 6 1 3 2 8 8 6 0 3 3 6 12 -6 9
19 Norwich City 12 2 2 8 7 27 6 1 1 4 5 11 6 1 1 4 2 16 -20 8
20 Newcastle United 12 0 6 6 15 27 6 0 3 3 10 16 6 0 3 3 5 11 -12 6
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Napoli 13 10 2 1 26 7 6 5 1 0 11 2 7 5 1 1 15 5 19 32
2 Milan 13 10 2 1 29 15 6 5 1 0 13 4 7 5 1 1 16 11 14 32
3 Inter 13 8 4 1 32 15 6 4 2 0 18 6 7 4 2 1 14 9 17 28
4 Atalanta 13 7 4 2 27 17 7 2 3 2 13 11 6 5 1 0 14 6 10 25
5 Roma 13 7 1 5 23 15 6 4 1 1 9 4 7 3 0 4 14 11 8 22
6 Lazio 13 6 3 4 25 21 7 5 1 1 18 8 6 1 2 3 7 13 4 21
7 Fiorentina 13 7 0 6 20 17 6 4 0 2 14 9 7 3 0 4 6 8 3 21
8 Juventus 13 6 3 4 18 15 6 3 1 2 7 6 7 3 2 2 11 9 3 21
9 Bologna 13 5 3 5 19 24 7 4 1 2 13 9 6 1 2 3 6 15 -5 18
10 Hellas Verona 12 4 4 4 25 21 6 4 0 2 16 10 6 0 4 2 9 11 4 16
11 Empoli 12 5 1 6 18 23 7 1 1 5 9 18 5 4 0 1 9 5 -5 16
12 Sassuolo 13 4 3 6 19 20 7 2 2 3 8 8 6 2 1 3 11 12 -1 15
13 Venezia 13 4 3 6 12 19 5 2 1 2 7 7 8 2 2 4 5 12 -7 15
14 Torino 12 4 2 6 15 12 6 3 1 2 12 6 6 1 1 4 3 6 3 14
15 Udinese 12 3 5 4 15 18 7 2 3 2 10 11 5 1 2 2 5 7 -3 14
16 Sampdoria 13 3 3 7 17 25 7 1 2 4 9 16 6 2 1 3 8 9 -8 12
17 Spezia 13 3 2 8 15 31 6 2 1 3 7 8 7 1 1 5 8 23 -16 11
18 Genoa 13 1 6 6 17 26 6 0 3 3 7 11 7 1 3 3 10 15 -9 9
19 Cagliari 13 1 4 8 15 28 7 1 2 4 10 13 6 0 2 4 5 15 -13 7
20 Salernitana 13 2 1 10 10 28 7 1 1 5 5 14 6 1 0 5 5 14 -18 7

Chelsea:
Juventus:
Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Juventus 4 4 0 0 9 2 2 2 0 0 5 2 2 2 0 0 4 0 7 12
2 Chelsea 4 3 0 1 6 1 2 2 0 0 5 0 2 1 0 1 1 1 5 9
3 Zenit 4 1 0 3 6 6 2 1 0 1 4 1 2 0 0 2 2 5 0 3
4 Malmö FF 4 0 0 4 0 12 2 0 0 2 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 8 -12 0

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The UEFA Champions League is the major international club football tournament in Europe. The competition begins already in late June and lasts for almost a year, ending with the final played in late May or early June. After several qualifying rounds the group stage is where the “true” Champions League begins for many viewers. Eight groups with four teams each battle through six rounds to qualify for the knock-out phase. Then a round of 16, quarterfinals and then semifinals needs to be won before a place in the final is secured.