❗Match Facts:
Juventus and Atlético Madrid will meet for the fifth time in the UEFA Champions League. They met in the 2014-15 Group Stages, with the Spaniards winning at home (1-0) and drawing away (0-0), before Juventus knocked them out of the 2018-19 UCL in the Last 16 stage after turning around a 0-2 deficit from the 1st leg and winning 3-0 in the 2nd leg at home.
Italian clubs have won just four of their last 27 trips away to Spanish teams in the UEFA Champions League (D3 L20). However, the last three of these victories have been by Juventus at Sevilla in 2016-17, Real Madrid in 2017-18 and Valencia in 2018-19
Atlético Madrid have lost just one of their eight UEFA Champions League meetings with Italian clubs (W5 D2 ), but this solitary defeat came against Juventus in the Last 16 in Turin back in March (0-3); their last UCL match.
Juve boss Maurizio Sarri lifted the Europa League in 2018-19 with Chelsea. Only three managers have ever won the UEFA Cup / Europa League and then the European Cup / Champions League in consecutive seasons (Rafael Benitez, Jose Mourinho and Bob Paisley)
Since Diego Simeone's first UEFA Champions League game as Atletico Madrid coach in September 2013, they have kept more clean sheets than any other team in the UCL (34).
Atlético Madrid will compete in their first Champions League season without Antoine Griezmann since 2013-14. He scored or assisted 54% of their goals in the competition (19 goals, 7 assists) between September 2015 & March 2019 before leaving this summer for Barcelona.
Diego Costa has scored nine goals in 13 games for Atlético Madrid in the UEFA Champions League, averaging a goal every 99 minutes and converting 26% of shots. At Chelsea, I've scored just twice in 15 UCL games, averaging a goal every 586 minutes and scoring 5% of shots.
Atlético's Joao Felix will be 19 years and 312 days old on the day of this match against Juventus. If he were to score in this match, he became the 4th youngest Portuguese player to score in the UEFA Champions League, after Gonçalo Guedes (18 and 305d), Manuel Fernandes (19y 255d) and Hugo Viana (19y 302d). Compatriot and all-time leading UCL goalscorer Cristiano Ronaldo didn't score his first goal in the competition until he was 22 years and 64 days old.
Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo is the all-time top goalscorer in the UEFA Champions League (126, excluding qualifiers) and has scored in over half of his 162 appearances in the competition (82 different games); another record in the competition
Juventus striker Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 25 goals in his career against Atletico Madrid; only against Sevilla (27) has he scored more in all competitions. This includes a hat-trick against them in the UEFA Champions League last season.