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Lyon v Juventus

Cristiano Ronaldo will be key if Juventus are to lift the Champions League trophy this season

Only few will fancy Olympique Lyonnais to rack up a result against Italy’s mightiest Juventus. The French outfit are in the bottom half of the Ligue 1 table but managed to see off Benfica and Zenit in Group G to qualify for the Champions League knock-out stages. However, they must be pulling their hair when Juventus’ ball was pulled out in the draw in December.

The Serie A champions are themselves are in search for a first UEFA Champions League triumph in two dozen years having coming extremely close recently in 2015 and 2017. Maurizio Sarri’s side are well-equipped to lift the trophy come May with star-man Cristiano Ronaldo back among the goals since the turn of the year.

Paulo Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain have also been in decent goalscoring touch, with Juventus extremely capable of blowing away Lyon, who are without talisman Memphis Depay.

Manager Rudi Garcia, who has immense experience against Juventus during his three-year stay at Roma, will resort to in-form striker Moussa Dembele and highly-rated midfielder Houssem Aouar to give them any hope in qualifying for the next stage. As things stand, Juventus look like they will wrap up the tie in France itself.

Prediction: Juventus