Dynamo Kiev vs Juventus UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Juventus are unbeaten in their four UEFA Champions League matches against Dynamo Kiev (W3 D1), with this their first encounter since 2002/03 group stage, with Juventus winning both matches.
Juventus have only faced Rosenborg (P6 W3 D3) more often in the UEFA Champions League without losing than Dynamo Kiev (P4 W3 D1), while against no side have Kiev faced more often without winning than Juventus (also winless in four against Paris SG, Man Utd and Inter Milan).
Dynamo Kiev are playing in the UEFA Champions League for the first time since the 2016/17 season when they were eliminated at the group stage, although their final match of the campaign saw them win 6-0 against Besiktas, their biggest win in major UEFA European competition.
Juventus have lost just four of their last 33 UEFA Champions League group stage matches (W21 DB), winning each of their last five in a row. Dynamo Kiev have played 11 0 UEFA Champions League matches, with 102 of those coming in the group stage (93%).
Kiev have only progressed from one of their last 13 group stages in the competition, doing so in 2015/16.
Juventus manager Andrea Pirlo twice won the UEFA Champions League as a player in 2003 and 2007 with AC Milan. None of the previous eight managers to manage Juventus in the competition have lost their first game in charge (W5 D3).
Juventus have only lost their opening match in a UEFA Champions League campaign once in 20 previous seasons (W11 D8), losing 3-0 away at Barcelona in 2017 /18.
On the day of this match, Dynamo manager Mircea Lucescu will be aged 75 years and 83 days, becoming the oldest manager in the history of the UEFA Champions League, overtaking Josef Heynckes who was 72 years and 357 days old in May 2018 in his final match in the competition as Bayern Munich manager against Real Madrid. During their last UEFA Champions League campaign in 2016/17,
Dynamo Kiev became only the second team to finish bottom in the group stage with a positive goal difference (+2) after Monaco in 2000/01 (+3) while only Man Utd in 2005/06 (4) have finished bottom having conceded fewer goals than Kiev in 2016/17 (6).
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Cristiano Ronaldo scored in each of his two previous UEFA Champions League appearances against Dynamo Kiev in the 2007/08 group stages for Man Utd; he also scored five goals in his two appearances against Mircea Lucescu's Shakhtar side in 2015/16, and is the only player to score a Champions League hat-trick against a team managed by Lucescu.
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