Juventus hosts Bayer Leverkusen in round 2 of the Champions League group stage. The match will be played on Tuesday, October 1st at Allianz Stadium (Turin)
Juventus is still developing in a very strange way: Andrea Agnelli (I recall that this dynasty was involved in the Calciopolis and Juventus Pharmacology Laboratory of the 1990s) suddenly decided to make Juventus a world brand and invited Ronaldo. Let's make mini-summary after one year of Ronaldo’s contract. The magnificent system of Allegri is destroyed - Max just ran away from there (Ronaldo made his Juventus only weaker - the Bianconeri often simplified the game and lost their balance in defense because Ronaldo does not work out in pressure). What’s going on with Sarri? Firstly, it is unlikely that Matuidi would play in Maurizio’s Chelsea or Napoli - he is good at playing without a ball, but sometimes he is severely lacking in his skills. In Juventus, Blaise is a player of the starting lineup because he works great for Cristiano if he decides to fool around once again. Juventus will achieve the fastest result if Sandro and Danilo constantly make crosses in the penalty area and Ronaldo stands there and wait for the passes. But will it be consistent with Sarri’s ideas and system? Of course, it will not, so Maurizio has a difficult task to solve.
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In the Bundesliga, Bayer is going very well so far: 10 points after five matches (the team shares 2-8 places). Yes, there was a sensitive defeat to Borussia Dortmund with a 0:4 score, but this result does not reflect the essence of that game: Borussia proved to be much better, but there is a difference between “much better” and “hammering the opponent” - Bayer had 2 obvious goal attempts that could convert. The xG metric confirms my words: Bayer lost by xG 1.15: 3.23 - the score 3: 1 in favor of Borussia would have looked much more logical. In other matches, Bayer approved itself very well: there were very confident victories over Paderborn (Paderborn was ahead 2-1, but Leverkusen beat it deservedly) and Union (2-0). But in the Champions League, everything is bad so far: Leverkusen got into a very difficult group and even lost to Lokomotiv in the home game.
Bayer needs to correct the situation and they have chances – the defense of Juventus cannot be called balanced right now. I already wrote about the problems arising from the hackwork of Ronaldo, plus the best defender of Juventus, Chiellini, will not play due to injury. Now let's talk about team styles: both Juventus (with all their problems) and Bayer can be called attacking teams, which create many attempts near the box of opponents. I do not think that something will change, so it’s worth waiting for a large number of goals scored. My prediction is Over 2.5 goals scored.
Prediction for the match: Over 2.5 goals scored
