UCL: Young Boys vs Juve 2-1 FT, as Dybala's goal was too little too late
MATCH PREVIEW:
- The first competitive meeting between Young Boys and Juventus was earlier this season; on MD2 of the UEFA Champions League. Italian giants Juve prevailed 3-0 thanks to a hat-trick from Paulo Dybala.
- Young Boys are yet to win a European home match this season; drawing 1-1 in their UCL qualifier against Dinamo Zagreb, before losing to Manchester United (0-3) and drawing 1-1 with Valencia in the group stage.
- Juventus are currently on a five-game winning run away from home in the UEFA Champions League – their best-ever away run in the UCL/European Cup.
In what is their first ever Champions League campaign, Young Boys remain winless after five games (D1 L4).
- Juventus are looking to win five of their six group stage games for the first time since doing so consecutively in 2004-05 & 2005-06.
- With Young Boys’ elimination confirmed, FC Basel remain the only Swiss side to have successfully qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League. FC Zürich, FC Thun and Grasshoppers Zürich all failed in their four combined attempts.
- Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri has seen his side return a clean sheet in 46% of his Champions League games (37/81) – only Diego Simeone (54%) and Fabio Capello (48%) have a better rate (50+ games).
- Young Boys have the worst shot conversion rate of any side in the Champions League this season (3.1) – just two of their 64 shots have resulted in goals.
- Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo will be looking to score a goal against a 33rd different opponent in the UEFA Champions League in this match against Young Boys.
- Juventus’ Paulo Dybala scored a hat-trick in their 3-0 home win over Young Boys on matchday two – the only player to have scored two hat-tricks against a single opponent in a UCL season was Luiz Adriano for Shakhtar Donetsk vs BATE Borisov in 2014-15.
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