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Uefa Champions League UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Camp Nou - Barcelona Tuesday 8 December 2020 21.00CET (21.00 local time) FC Barcelona Group G - Matchday 6 Juventus Last updated 07/12/2020 02:09CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 6 1 FC Barcelona - Juventus Tuesday 8 December 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Camp Nou, Barcelona Match background Barcelona are aiming to finish first in their UEFA Champions League section once again, and to win all six games in a group stage for the second time, as Juventus come to the Camp Nou on Matchday 6. • The Spanish side have picked up a maximum 15 points in Group G, three of them from a 2-0 win in Turin, to hold a three-point lead over the Italian champions at the top of the table. With both teams already through to the round of 16, Barça will win their section for the 14th season in a row unless Juventus can score at least three goals and win by a margin that overturns their home defeat, taking them above their Spanish opponents on head-to-head record. • On Matchday 2 Barcelona's sixth away game at Juventus brought their first victory, Ousmane Dembélé (14) giving them an early lead before Lionel Messi sealed the points from the penalty spot (90+1) after Juve defender Merih Demiral had been sent off for a second yellow card. Previous meetings • The most high profile of the teams' 12 meetings came five years ago in the 2015 UEFA Champions League final at the Olympiastadion, where Barcelona triumphed 3-1. Ivan Rakitić gave Luis Enrique's side a fourth-minute lead and, though Álvaro Morata levelled for Massimiliano Allegri's Juve ten minutes after half-time, Luis Suárez (68) and Neymar (90+7) sealed Barça's fourth UEFA Champions League title in ten years. • Marc-André ter Stegen, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Messi all started that final for Barcelona; in addition to current coach Andrea Pirlo, Juve's line-up included Gianluigi Buffon, Leonardo Bonucci and goalscorer Morata. • The teams were also paired in the 2017/18 group stage with Messi scoring twice in Barcelona's 3-0 victory in Spain before a goalless draw in Turin. • The Bianconeri laid the groundwork for their 2016/17 quarter-final elimination of Barcelona in Turin, where two goals from Paulo Dybala (7, 22) were supplemented by Giorgio Chiellini's strike (55). The second leg at the Camp Nou ended goalless. • The win in the 2015 final was Barcelona's first victory against Juve since 1991. Then, Johan Cruyff's charges beat a Juventus side coached by Gigi Maifredi 3-1 at home in their European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final first leg, Hristo Stoichkov scoring twice, and held on to progress despite Roberto Baggio's second-leg strike. • The teams' first meetings came in the 1985/86 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals when Barcelona again prevailed, Julio Alberto getting the only goal of the Camp Nou first leg. Barça struck first in the Turin return too, through Steve Archibald, and advanced despite Michel Platini's 44th-minute equaliser. • However, Juve ousted the Blaugrana in the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. The first game in Turin finished 1-1, before Juve substitute Marcelo Zalayeta scored in extra time at the Camp Nou to give Juve a 2-1 win on the night and 3-2 overall. • Barcelona hold the upper hand in the teams' 12 encounters so far, having registered five wins, four draws and three defeats, with 15 goals scored and ten conceded. Form guide Barcelona • In addition to the Matchday 2 win in Turin, Ronald Koeman's side have beaten Ferencváros (5-1 h, 3-0 a) and Dynamo Kyiv (2-1 h, 4-0 a) in this season's group stage and sealed their place in the round of 16 with two matches to spare. • Barcelona could therefore become the eighth team to win all six games in a UEFA Champions League group stage and, having already achieved the feat in the 2002/03 first group stage, the second club to do it twice after Real Madrid (2011/12, 2014/15). AC Milan (1992/93), Paris Saint-Germain (1994/95), Spartak Moskva (1995/96) and Bayern München (2019/20) also took maximum points in a group stage, although Bayern were the first of those teams to go on and lift the trophy. • Second in the Spanish Liga behind Real Madrid last season, this is Barcelona's 25th UEFA Champions League campaign, a competition record they share with Madrid. They have now reached the round of 16 or better for the last 17 seasons, winning their group every year from 2007/08 onwards and a record 21 times in all. They are unbeaten in their last four group stage campaigns, including this one, and have come through their section undefeated a record 13 times. It is 20 years since Barça last failed to finish in the top two of their UEFA Champions League group. • Barcelona have not lost in the UEFA Champions League group stage since a 3-1 reverse at Manchester City on Matchday 4 in 2016/17. Their record since is W19 D6. 2 FC Barcelona - Juventus Tuesday 8 December 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Camp Nou, Barcelona • In 2019/20, Barcelona picked up 14 points to finish four clear of Borussia Dortmund in their section, collecting seven points both home and away. • Having replaced Ernesto Valverde with Quique Setién as coach, the Blaugrana then saw off Napoli in the round of 16 (1-1 a, 3-1 h), only to suffer their heaviest European loss in the quarter-finals in Lisbon as they went down 8-2 to Bayern. • That defeat was one of only three in Barcelona's last 37 UEFA Champions League fixtures (W24 D10). • Barcelona are unbeaten in 38 UEFA Champions League home matches, a run that started in September 2013 (W34 D4); the 5-1 defeat of Lyon in the 2018/19 round of 16 second leg eclipsed the previous competition record of 29 set by Bayern between March 1998 and April 2002. • Barcelona have appeared in 13 successive UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, a competition record. They last failed to reach the last eight in 2006/07, the last season in which they failed to win their group. • Barcelona have been European champions on five occasions, most recently in 2015 after beating Juve 3-1 in the final. Koeman, who succeeded Setién as coach in August, scored the winner in their first final victory against Sampdoria in 1992. • Messi's goal against Ferencváros on Matchday 1 made him the first player to score in 16 successive UEFA Champions League campaigns. • Already the youngest player to score in the UEFA Champions League, Ansu Fati was also on target at home against Ferencváros; Pedri's strike meant for the first time in the competition's history, two players under 18 had found the net in the same match. • Fati's goal on Matchday 1, aged 17 years 355 days, made him the first player to score more than once in the UEFA Champions League before his 18th birthday. • Barcelona are unbeaten in their last seven games against Serie A sides (W5 D2). • The Blaugrana's record at home to Serie A clubs is W19 D6 L2. They are unbeaten in their last 16 home fixtures against Italian visitors, winning 13, since losing 2-1 to Juventus in the 2002/03 quarter-final second leg. Juventus • Aside from the home defeat by Barcelona, Juve have won their other four Group G games, against Dynamo Kyiv (2- 0 a, 3-0 h) and Ferencváros (4-1 a, 2-1 h). Morata's added-time winner in the latter game, in Turin on Matchday 4, sealed a place in the round of 16. • Cristiano Ronaldo was also on target against Ferencváros on Matchday 4 and has now found the net in 16 consecutive editions of the UEFA Champions League, matching the feat of Messi and Karim Benzema. • Morata is the joint leading scorer in this season's UEFA Champions League with six goals – the same number as Erling Braut Haaland of Dortmund and Manchester United's Marcus Rashford. • Champions of Italy for a record ninth season in a row in 2019/20, and 36th time in all, this is Juve's 21st UEFA Champions League campaign; they have now reached the last 16 in 18 of those seasons, 2020/21 marking the seventh successive campaign in which they have progressed to the knockout phase. • The Bianconeri, under Maurizio Sarri, finished first in their section ahead of Atlético de Madrid in last season's competition having won five of their six fixtures (D1) but bowed out in the round of 16, eliminated by Lyon on away goals (0-1 a, 2-1 h). • The Turin team have finished first in their UEFA Champions League section on 13 occasions, including in each of the last two seasons. • Winners in 1985 and 1996, Juventus have played in nine European Cup finals – losing a record seven, including all of their last five. • Pirlo replaced Sarri as Juve coach on 8 August. • Juve have won four of their last five away European games (L1); the defeat at Lyon last season is their only reverse in the last seven such matches (W4 D2). • Despite the home defeat by Barcelona, Juve have won five of their last eight matches against Spanish clubs, home and away (D1 L2).
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