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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Juventus Stadium - Turin Wednesday 2 December 2020 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Juventus Group G - Matchday 5 FC Dynamo Kyiv Last updated 01/12/2020 18:46CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 5 1 Juventus - FC Dynamo Kyiv Wednesday 2 December 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Juventus Stadium, Turin Match background Juventus have already booked their place in the round of 16 and will be looking for another three points at home to Dynamo Kyiv to keep alive their hopes of snatching first place in Group G. • The Bianconeri have nine points from their first four fixtures, three behind a Barcelona side who were 2-0 winners in Turin on Matchday 2 and who are at home to the Italian champions on the final night. Juve must therefore match or better Barça's result on Matchday 5 to maintain hope of finishing first in the section. • Dynamo, meanwhile, are level with Ferencváros on one point having lost three of their four fixtures – including a 2-0 home defeat against Juve on the opening night, Álvaro Morata scoring both goals in Ukraine – and can only aim for third place, which will be decided by the Matchday 6 fixture against the Hungarian champions in Kyiv. Previous meetings • This is the sixth meeting between the clubs, Juve winning four of the previous five. The Italian side came from behind to win 2-1 in Ukraine in the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League first group stage, having also recorded a 5-0 home victory. Juve went on to win the section with 13 points, with Dynamo in third place on seven. • Juve also prevailed in the 1997/98 quarter-final against Dynamo, a 1-1 draw in Turin preceding a 4-1 away victory in Kyiv in which Filippo Inzaghi scored a hat-trick. Form guide Juventus • After that 2-0 win at Dynamo, Juve went down by the same score at home to Barcelona on Matchday 2; they got back on track by beating Ferencváros away (4-1) and at home (2-1), Morata scoring twice in Hungary and the added- time winner in Turin that 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 Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema. He also equalled Messi's record for home goals in the competition (70). • 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 but bowed out in the round of 16, eliminated by Lyon on away goals (0-1 a, 2-1 h). • Juve won five of their six Group D games in last season's competition to finish six points clear at the top. They dropped points only in their first fixture, being pegged back by two late Atlético goals in a 2-2 draw in Spain, but went on to beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in Italy and Lokomotiv Moskva 2-1 home and away. A 1-0 home win against Atlético and a 2-0 success at Leverkusen completed the section. • 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. • Andrea Pirlo replaced Sarri as Juve coach on 8 August. • Juventus have lost only five of their 44 European matches at the Juventus Stadium (W27 D12), although four of those defeats have come in their last 12. • Aside from their five games against Dynamo, Juve have played only four other matches against clubs from Ukraine, all against Shakhtar Donetsk – most recently in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage. The 1-1 draw in Turin made it two wins and two draws at home to Ukrainian visitors. • Juve's sole defeat against a Ukrainian team came at Shakhtar in the 1976/77 UEFA Cup third round, a 1-0 second- leg loss not enough to prevent them advancing after a 3-0 home success. The Bianconeri went on to win the competition, claiming their first European trophy. Dynamo • After losing at home to Juve on Matchday 1, the Kyiv club drew 2-2 at Ferencváros, a game in which they had led 2- 0, and were beaten away (1-2) and home (0-4) by Barcelona. • Dynamo finished as Ukrainian Premier League runners-up behind Shakhtar for the fourth season running in 2019/20, although they did claim a 21st domestic cup, defeating Vorskla Poltava 8-7 on penalties in the final after a 1-1 draw. 2 Juventus - FC Dynamo Kyiv Wednesday 2 December 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Juventus Stadium, Turin • In Europe, Bilo-Syni lost to Club Brugge 4-3 on aggregate in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round before moving into the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they were eliminated after finishing third in their section behind Malmö and Copenhagen. • Dynamo kicked off their 2020/21 European campaign with a 2-0 home win against AZ Alkmaar in their one-off third qualifying round tie. They then eased past Gent in the two-legged play-offs (2-1 a, 3-0 h), Carlos De Pena scoring in each game. • Dynamo's most successful UEFA Champions League campaign came in 1998/99 when they made it as far as the semi-finals. Thirteen of their subsequent 14 appearances in the competition proper have now ended in the group stage, including in 2016/17, their last campaign before this one, when they finished bottom of their section. • The Kyiv side had gone out in the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase three seasons running before 2020/21. • The 2-1 victory at Gent in this season's play-offs is Dynamo's sole success in their last nine European away games (D4 L4). • Dynamo's last game against Italian opponents before Matchday 1 was a 2-0 home loss against Lazio in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League round of 16 – the 2-2 draw in the first game in Rome made it successive draws in Italy for Dynamo, and three in their last four visits (L1). Their all-time away record in Italy, however, is W1 D5 L6, the solitary win a 3-0 forfeit victory against Roma in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League group stage. • A 2-0 home win against Roma in that 2004/05 UEFA Champions League group stage is Dynamo's only other victory in their 25 games against teams from Italy (D8 L15) – their record since then is D4 L7. Links and trivia • Dynamo coach Mircea Lucescu worked in Italy with Pisa (1990/91), Brescia (1991–96), Reggiana (1996/97) and Internazionale (1998/99). • Pirlo made his Serie A debut aged 16 for Lucescu's Brescia in 1995; the Romanian was also Pirlo's coach at Inter. • Lucescu's Serie A record against Juventus was W1 D3 L3, the sole victory a 2-0 win with Brescia in 1992/93. He also oversaw Shakhtar's 1-0 defeat in Donetsk and 1-1 draw in Turin in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Cristiano Ronaldo scored a penalty at the NSK Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Portugal's 2-1 loss to Ukraine in UEFA EURO 2020 qualifying on 14 October 2019. • Ronaldo scored home (3-0) and away (2-0) against Gerson Rodrigues' Luxembourg in UEFA EURO 2020 qualifying. • Merih Demiral was given his Turkey debut by Lucescu in a 0-0 friendly draw against Ukraine on 20 November 2018. • Morata scored his first goal for Spain in the 1-0 home defeat of Ukraine in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying on 27 March 2015. • Federico Bernardeschi scored Italy's goal in a friendly draw against Ukraine in Genoa on 12 October 2018; Oleksandr Karavaev, Mykyta Burda and Serhiy Sydorchuk all featured for the visitors. • International team-mates: Wojciech Szczęsny & Tomasz Kędziora (Poland) • Pirlo was in the Italy side, along with Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini, that lost the UEFA EURO 2012 final 4- 0 to Spain in Kyiv's NSK Olimpiyskiy Stadium. Latest news Juventus • Danilo's next appearance in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final, will be his 50th. • Juve are still unbeaten in Serie A this season, but have won only four of their nine games and were held 1-1 at Benevento on Saturday. • Cristiano Ronaldo has found the net in all five of his Serie A appearances this season, scoring eight goals in total. He missed the weekend draw. • Those five draws are the same as Juve's total for the whole of the 2019/20 Serie A campaign. They last drew five of their first nine league games in 2001/02. • Álvaro Morata, who scored at Benevento before being sent off late on, has been directly involved in 11 of Juve's 23 goals in all competitions this season (eight goals, three assists). • A 2-0 home win against Cagliari on 21 November is the Bianconeri's only clean sheet in Serie A since the 3-0 win 3 Juventus - FC Dynamo Kyiv Wednesday 2 December 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Juventus Stadium, Turin against Sampdoria in their first game of the season.