Juventus FC - Chelsea FC

The champions of Italy face the Champions League trophy holder in a direct match for the first two standings in the group. The situation in Group E is quite complicated and even this game will not give complete clarity about who will continue on to the elimination phase. Chelsea and Shakhtar Donetsk have 7 points, while Juventus has a total of 6 points. Success in this match is crucial for both teams, and the draw could cost them the first place in the group in favor of Shakhtar.

Currently, Chelsea`s players are facing some difficulties in their last 6 games as it is clear from the results shown - 2 losses, 2 draws and 2 wins, both of which won with dramatic goals in the last minutes of the game (5-4 against Manchester United and 3-2 against Shakhtar Donetsk). However, we cannot point out any special weaknesses in the game of Chelsea as they perform quite well. Probably, lack of luck costed Chelsea the first place in the Premier League table and as for today they are 4 points behind the leader Manchester City. John Terry and Frank Lampard are the big names who will be missing the visit to Italy. As a result Gary Cahill is expected to start in the central defense. For Juventus there are no major absentees, however, Mirko Vucinic might miss this match.

Both coaches usually rely on fairly intense midfield. Antonio Conte even arranges his five midfielders in a line. However, Roberto Di Matteo also frequently uses a five-player midfield, but most often uses two more defensive ones(Ramires/Oriol Romeu and John Obi Mikel) and three with attacking functions (Azar/Oscar, Mata, Sturridge/Moses). The battle for control of the center of the field will be crucial for the outcome of this match. Furthermore, Chelsea`s midfielders have scored most of the goals in the Champions League so far. Oscar has scored four goals, Mata - two and Ramires and Moses have each scored one goal. For Juventus the most effective players are the midfielder Arturo Vidal and the forward Fabio Quagliarella.

We can state that both teams have similar style of play with a lot of passing, possesing the ball in the opponent`s half and numerous attacks trough the middle. Both managers often rotate their first eleven, thus making it difficult to predict who exactly will start the match in Tuesday. What we can say for sure is that regardless of the position of the players of both teams, they are all quite capable of scoring goals. Of course we leave the goalkeepers out of the list. As far as Chelsea defenders are concerned, Ivanovich and Luiz often score some very attractive goals. So far, Branislav Ivanovic has a total of 3 goals in the Premiership. In comparison Torres has scored four goals this season in the Premier League, but has no assist as Ivanovich has one of them. Undoubtedly, Juventus FC and Chelsea FC will put on quite a show for all of us and hopefully we will see a lot of goals.

The probabilities for this game calculated by the forebet algorithm are as follows: Home win-36%, Draw-25%, Away win - 39%.