Champions League - Juventus Vs Barcelona : Match Preview And Predictions



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Juventus will meet with Barcelona for the eight time in the Champions League with the most memorable of their past meetings, the 3-1 defeat in the 2015 Champions League final. Their previous seven meetings has Juventus win two while Barcelona win three with two draws, this shows how competitive this fixture has always been.

Both teams are presently doing well in their domestic leagues, Juventus leading the Italian League with six points with a Form (WWWDLW) i their last six games in all competitions while FC Barcelona are also have a similar form (WLWWWL) in all competitions though still occupying the second position, three points behind Real Madrid.

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Juventus History


Juventus were founded as Sport-Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, but were renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. The club joined the Italian Football Championship during 1900. In 1904 the businessman Ajmone-Marsan revived the finances of the football club Juventus, making it also possible to transfer the training field from Piazza d'Armi to the more appropriate Velodrome Umberto I. During this period the team wore a pink and black kit. Juventus first won the league championship in 1905 while playing at their Velodrome Umberto I ground. By this time the club colours had changed to black and white stripes, inspired by English side
Notts County .
There was a split at the club in 1906, after some of the staff considered moving Juve out of Turin. President Alfred Dick was unhappy with this and left with some prominent players to found FBC Torino which in turn spawned the Derby della Mole.



Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World War.
League dominance
Fiat owner Edoardo Agnelli gained control of the club in 1923, and built a new stadium. [2] This helped the club to its second scudetto (league championship) in the 1925–26 season beating
Alba Roma with an aggregate score of 12–1,
Antonio Vojak 's goals were essential that season. The club established itself as a major force in Italian football since the 1930s, becoming the country's first professional club and the first with a decentralised fan base,
which led it to win a record of five consecutive Italian championships the first four under the management of Carlo Carcano and form the core of the Italy national team during the Vittorio Pozzo 's era, including the 1934 world champion squad . With star players such as Raimundo Orsi, Luigi Bertolini, Giovanni Ferrari and Luis Monti amongst others.
Sívori , Charles , and Boniperti : the
Magical Trio.


Juventus moved to the Stadio Comunale , but for the rest of the 1930s and the majority of the 1940s they were unable to recapture championship dominance. After the Second World War, Gianni Agnelli was appointed honorary president. The club added two more league championships to its name in the 1949–50 and 1951–52 seasons, the latter of which was under the management of Englishman
Jesse Carver .

Two new strikers were signed during 1957–58 ; Welshman John Charles and Italo-Argentine Omar Sívori , playing alongside longtime member Giampiero Boniperti . That season saw Juventus awarded with the Golden Star for Sport Excellence to wear on their shirts after becoming the first Italian side to win ten league titles. In the same season, Sívori became the first ever player at the club to win the
European Footballer of the Year . The following season they beat Fiorentina to complete their first league and cup double, winning Serie A and Coppa Italia . Boniperti retired in 1961 as the all-time top scorer at the club, with 182 goals in all competitions, a club record which stood for 45 years.


During the rest of the decade, the club won the league just once more in 1966–67 , The 1970s, however, saw Juventus further solidify their strong position in Italian football. Under former player Čestmír Vycpálek , they won the
scudetto in 1971–72 and 1972–73 ,with players such as Roberto Bettega , Franco Causio and José Altafini breaking through. During the rest of the decade, they won the league twice more, with defender Gaetano Scirea contributing significantly. The later win was under Giovanni Trapattoni , who also led the club to their first ever major European title, the
UEFA Cup , in 1977 , and helped the club's domination continue on into the early part of the 1980s. During Trapattoni's tenure, many Juventus players also formed the backbone of the Italy national team during Enzo Bearzot 's successful managerial era, including the 1978 World Cup , UEFA Euro 1980 and 1982 world champion squads .