Prediction of Juventus vs. Real Madrid
LEAPYGUIDE.COM - After a long season, the 2016/2017 season will end with a grand party this weekend. The two European giants Juventus and Real Madrid will fight each other for the Champions League Trophy Championships at Cardiff Millennium Stadium on Sunday (4/6).
The Champions League final party this season is arguably one of the finest finals of all time. The reason the two teams are fighting for the Champions League title is a champion in each domestic competition, where Juventus are Serie A champions while Real Madrid is the La Liga champions this season, so the game will be going on.
If we do a flashback, the journey of the two teams to the final this can be said to walk difficult. After becoming Group H champion, Juventus must conquer FC Porto, Barcelona and AS Monaco to reach the final. While Real Madrid's move is also no less difficult, where after being runner-up Group F, they conquered Napoli, Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid to track the Cardiff Millennium Stadium at the weekend.
Juventus and Real Madrid are actually not unfamiliar opponents in the eyes of both teams. In the last 10 years, the two teams have already met six times in the Champions League, where four parties take place in the group phase and the other 2 matches are in the knockout phase. Of the six meetings, Juventus won 3 games in between, two games ended in draw, and one game ended Madrid's victory.
The last time the two teams met in 2015 when the Old Lady got rid of El Real in the semi-finals with a 3-2 aggregate. For that match can be said to be the momentum of revenge of Real Madrid to the Italian champion.
The performance of both teams ahead of this fight can be said equally are in the best condition. Both teams are both only lost once and won five times in their last six matches, so the match that was held in Cardiff later predictable can really run fierce since the first minute.
Both teams are really ambitious to write a new history if they win the Champions League Trophy later. If Juventus win the Round Ears trophy, they will be the second Italian team to ever win the treble winners, while if Real Madrid win the final then they become the first team to win the Champions League in a row since the format was changed in 1992 . In addition to this trophy, Madrid increasingly cemented itself as the most successful team in Europe with Raihan 12 trophies so they will perform tooth and nail to make it happen.
Ahead of this crucial game, coach Massimiliano Allegri certainly can lower the best power in this fight. Only Marko Pjaca is the only player who can not perform in this match, the rest of Juventus courtiers ready to perform in Cardiff.
Allegri himself is predicted to play the scheme of three defenders in this match, where a BBC trio consisting of Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Barzagli, and Giorgio Chiellini will be the stronghold of the Old Lady in action later. In midfield, Miralem Pjanic and Sami Khedira will be in charge of managing the flow of the ball, while Gonzalo Higuain will spearhead them in this fight which is supported by the movements of Mario Mandzukic and Paulo Dybala behind him.
In the opposite camp, coach Zinedine Zidane also does not have a problem that means the injury ahead of this fight. Recorded only Dani Carvajal and Gareth Bale whose condition is still doubtful to appear in this fight, the rest of the retainer of Los Blancos ready to appear in this historic party.
Zidane himself is predicted to play a 4-3-1-2 scheme, with Isco acting as a playmaker in this match that sustains two strikers Los Blancos, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema. In midfield trio Luka Modric, Casemiro and Toni Kroos will be in charge of managing the flow of Los Blancos, while duo Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane will be in charge of securing the defense of the Spanish champions.
Estimated Player Composition
Juventus (3-4-2-1): Buffon; Chiellini, Bonucci, Barzagli; Sandro, Khedira, Pjanic, Alves; Mandzukic, Dybala; Higuain
Real Madrid (4-3-1-2): Navas; Marcelo, Varane, Ramos and Danilo; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos; Isco; Benzema, Ronaldo
Second Team Statistics
Head to Head
14/05/15 Real Madrid 1 - 1 Juventus (UCL)
06/05/15 Juventus 2 - 1 Real Madrid (UCL)
06/11/13 Juventus 2-2 Real Madrid (UCL)
24/10/13 Real Madrid 2 - 1 Juventus (UCL)
01/08/09 Real Madrid 1 - 2 Juventus (Trial)
The Last Five Matches of Juventus (M-K-M-M-M)
10/05/17 Juventus 2 - 1 AS Monaco (UCL)
15/05/17 AS Roma 3 - 1 Juventus (Serie A)
18/05/17 Juventus 2 vs 0 Lazio (Coppa Italia)
21/05/17 Juventus 3 - 0 Crotone (Serie A)
27/05/17 Bologna 1 - 2 Juventus (Serie A)