When Juventus arrived at the San Siro this past weekend, their matchday squad was very much one that was shorthanded, with seven injured players back in Turin and forced to miss one of the bigger fixtures of the 2024-25 season.

Thiago Motta insisted that he is not ‘bluffing’ when it comes to the severity of Juventus’s injury crisis when asked what he made of Unai Emery’s claim that the Bianconeri are favourites

Pau Torres has already beaten Juventus once in the Champions League. Now the defender has sights on making it a double and digging Villa out of their current malaise. Torres was among the scorers when Villarreal beat Juve 3-0 in Turin to claim a 4-1 aggregate win in a 2022 quarter-final, the moment ranking among the proudest of his career.