5 Reasons why Juventus may not win the Champions League this season 

#4 Few players have experienced winning the Champions League

Juventus v AC Milan - Serie A

For all of the team trophies won by the current Juventus players, they are painfully short when it comes to Champions League winning experience.

Off the current squad, only Cristiano Ronaldo, Sami Khedira and Mario Mandzukic have tasted glory on the continent, and in the long run this dearth of experience could come back to haunt them.

Even though winning league titles requires consistency and concentration over a nine-month period, with the club showing the most of these two criterion triumphing, the Champions League operates by much different rules.

The knockout nature of the competition means that only clubs who can step up to the occasion on the nightly progress, with the big game players bringing their experience to the fore.

This is largely why Real Madrid triumphed in each of the last three editions despite struggling everywhere else, as they possessed multiple big-game players who knew how to bring their A game over 180 minutes of knockout football to qualify.

However, Juventus has not quite reached that level of continental experience and this could ultimately cost them in their quest for a first Champions League trophy in 22 years.