In the second leg of the 1/8 final of the UEFA Champions League, Juventus will face Porto.
Porto in the current UEFA Champions League was the only representative of the championship not from the top 5 countries, which managed to break through to the playoffs. The draw was not favorable to the «dragons» – the Portuguese pair fell to Juventus. It seemed that everything would be decided in the first match, but at Dragau, Sergio Conceição’s team quite unexpectedly celebrated the victory.
It was not without a fly in the ointment – until the 82nd minute, the hosts led with a comfortable score of 2: 0, but Chiesa managed to score an unpleasant away goal. Obviously, it is because of him that the FiveThirtyEight portal gives 60% on the final passage of the Torino team to the quarterfinals. For Juve, the solution of this problem is especially important, because in the championship the chances of gold are not so great, and the Cup and Super Cup 10-point gap from the leader of Serie A does not justify. Torino need success in the LCH.
The key to Porto’s victory in the first leg was a special system of pressure within the framework of the 4-4-2 scheme. It is considered that it is inconvenient for the pressure in the work without the ball, but Sergio Conceição managed to refute this statement: the attackers in the first stage of the pressure retreated to the flank and «invited» the opponent to the center, and the defenders attacked the «Bianconeri» as high as possible – it was with such aggressive pressure that the Portuguese scored already in the 1st minute, intercepting the ball in someone else’s penalty area. At the same time, during the hour of the game, the «dragons» made almost no mistakes.
What will happen next is hard to say. Porto knows how to defend, but recently in the top matches, Sergio Conceição’s wards have not shown themselves – the team lost to Braga (2:3) and finished 0: 0 with Sporting. In Turin, it will be several orders of magnitude more difficult for them, because Juve is picking up the pace and will push extremely aggressively. In such conditions, a compromise forecast seems very likely: the Bianconeri will move the game to overtime, and then they will finish off a tired Porto in class.
However, in this match, any option is possible. We can only say with confidence that the match will not end without goals.
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