Overview
After a year-long ban from European competition, Juventus returned to the Champions League after finishing third in Serie A last season. They have made a number of quality additions to their squad in the summer of 2024, including Douglas Luiz and especially Thiago Motta on the coaching bench.
Despite having just played out two goalless draws against AS Roma and Empoli, Juventus are still unbeaten in the 2024-2025 season. Before that, they had two impressive wins against Como and Verona, as well as keeping a clean sheet in the first four matches of the season.
PSV are also in impressive form, winning all 5 of their first matches of the season in the Dutch national championship (Eredivisie). They have scored 20 goals and only conceded 3. In the European arena, PSV is always an extremely difficult opponent for any team.
However, having to play away at Juventus will be a difficult problem for the Dutch representative. Despite having a perfect winning record, PSV will likely have to leave Italy empty-handed.
Juventus have scored in 18 of their last 20 home Champions League games. Eight of Juventus' last 10 home Champions League games have featured over 2.5 goals.
Meanwhile, PSV have scored in 36 of their last 38 games. However, the Dutch side have failed to win in 21 of their last 23 away games in the Champions League.
Human resources situation
Juventus do not have many losses in terms of force before the confrontation with PSV. Francis Conceicao and Milik are their only regrettable absentees due to injury. However, these are not important pillars of the Italian team at the moment.
On the other side of the front line, PSV will not have the services of two important players, Fofana and Hirving Lozano.
Expected lineup:
Juventus: Di Gregorio, Kalulu, Gatti, Bremer, Cabal, Locatelli, Fagioli, Cambiaso, Koopmeiners, Yildiz, Vlahovic.
PSV: Benitez, Ledezma, Flamingo, Boscagli, Dams, Til, Schouten, Veerman, Bakayoko, De Jong, Tillman.
Score prediction: Juventus 2-1 PSV
The match between Juventus and PSV takes place at 23:45 on September 17 (Vietnam time).
