Juventus vs Borussia Dortmund
Champions League - Round of 16
Today, 20:45
Juventus Stadium
Juventus and Borussia Dortmund will play tonight at 20.45, in Torino, the first leg of the first knockout round of the Champions League, the most important tournament for European teams of clubs. Juventus has qualified to the knockout coming second in Group A, behind Atletico Madrid; Borussia Dortmund, one of the strongest German teams of recent years, has instead won the group D Arsenal before coming (here is the list of the other matches of the second round). Tonight's game tonight will be the 37 year-old Spaniard Antonio Mateu Lahoz, who heads international meetings since 2011. The return match will be played on Wednesday, March 18th at the historic Westflenstadion Dortmund, whose south curve - the so-called "yellow wall" - is curve largest and most famous in the world.
Juventus is the strongest team in the Italian league, but for years it difficult to get good results in the Champions League in the last seven seasons, from when she returned to Serie A, he spent only two times the group stage of the Champions League , never going beyond the quarterfinals. Borussia Dortmund is instead one of the strongest teams in Europe in recent years, although it is going through a very complicated season: at some point, in early December, it was even last in the German championship (who won twice between 2010 and 2012), with fewer points than those who had received the five group matches of Champions. Although in recent issues Borussia has slightly recovered (in the Bundesliga won three consecutive games), is the favored Juventus to be considered: for several months the coach Massimiliano Allegri practice a gaming system, the 4-3-1-2 , which allowed the team to be even more compact and effective in recent years. In the league has lost only once and suffered 13 goals in 24 games.
The quarter-finals of the Champions League will be played between 14 and 22 April (the draw will be held on March 20). The final is scheduled for June 6 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Juventus and Borussia, among others, have already met in a beautiful Champions League final of 1997 (won by Borussia).
