Overview
Although not highly rated in the 2024-2025 Champions League season, Lille is creating many surprises in Europe's biggest arena.
They defeated both Madrid representatives, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, convincingly. Despite losing to Sporting in the opening match, with 6 points after that, Lille still has a great chance of reaching the round of 16 when the League Phase ends.
In Ligue 1, Lille is also showing good form with 18 points after 10 matches and is in 4th place on the rankings. In the last 8 matches in all competitions, they have not known defeat. This will be the form that Juventus needs to be wary of when traveling to France.
With the same 6 points as Lille in the Champions League, Juventus' performance was less convincing than their opponent. In the most recent match, coach Thiago Motta's team lost to Stuttgart right at home. Serie A's most solid defense has also conceded 6 goals in the last 3 matches.
However, Juventus's personnel quality is still considered better than Lille's. Meanwhile, the French representative has home field advantage and is in more stable form. Most likely, the match will end in a draw.
The two teams have never met before in European competition. However, Juventus have an excellent record against French teams, having lost just eight of their 36 meetings and won 20 of those games.
Human resources situation
Juventus' Danilo is suspended after his red card against Stuttgart, while Douglas Luiz, Arkadiusz Milik, Gleison Bremer and Nicolas Gonzalez are injured.
On the other side of the front line, Lille still does not have the services of Remy Cabella, Ethan Mbappe, Tiago Santos, Hakon Arnar Haraldsson, Samuel Umtiti, Nabil Bentaleb and Ismaily.
Expected lineup:
Lille: Chevalier, Alexsandro, Gudmundsson, Meunier, Diakite, Gomes, Sahraoui, Andre, Zhegrova, Gomes, David.
Juventus: Di Gregorio, Gatti, Kalulu, Cambiaso, Cabal, Locatelli, McKennie, Fagioli, Conceicao, Vlahovic, Weah.
The match between Lille and Juventus takes place at 3:00 a.m. on November 6 (Vietnam time).
