Ferencvaros vs Juventus UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Ferencváros and Juventus will meet for just the second time in European competition, with the previous game coming in a 1-0 win for the Hungarian side in the 1964/65 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final.
This will be only the second time Juventus have faced Hungarian opponents in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, having previously eliminated Újpest over two legs in the 1972/73 quarter-final (2-2 on aggregate, progressing on away goals).
Ferencváros last faced Italian opponents in the European Cup back in the 1965/66 season, suffering elimination in the quarter-final at the hands of Inter Milan (1-5 on aggregate).
Juventus are looking to avoid losing consecutive UEFA Champions League group stage matches for the first time since October 2014, with current boss Andrea Pirlo featuring in the second of those defeats against Olympiakos.
Ferencváros have conceded 26 goals in their eight UEFA Champions League matches (3.3 per game), the second-highest ratio in the history of the competition behind only FC Nordsjaelland (22 in 6 games, 3.7 per game).
Juventus failed to have a single shot on target on MD2 against Barcelona, although they had three goals disallowed for offside by VAR, all scored by Álvaro Morata. Since the start of last season, no player has been caught offside as often in the UEFA Champions League as Morata (13, level with Timo Werner).
Ferencváros have only lost two of their 13 home European Cup/UEFA Champions League matches (W6 D5), losing against Leeds United in November 1969 and Ajax in September 1995.
Juventus’ starting XI against Barcelona on MD2 had an average age of 26 years and 325 days, the youngest for a Juve team in a UEFA Champions League match since March 2002 against Arsenal (26y 109d). It was their first XI to feature as many as four players aged 23 or younger since December 2015 vs Sevilla.
Ferencváros have shipped seven goals in their two UEFA Champions League matches this season, more than any other side. Only three sides have ever previously conceded 7+ goals in their first two group stage games and then progressed to the next stage, most recently in Spurs in 2019/20.
Ferencváros could be the 34th different team that Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo scores against in the UEFA Champions League, with only Lionel Messi (36) finding the net against more different opponents than Ronaldo’s current tally of 33.
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