CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LAST 16 PREDICTIONS: (All kick-offs 11pm UAE time) Friday; Juventus v Lyon, (first-leg 0-1) - It is for exactly this sort of night that Juventus forked out €112 million (Dh482m) for a then 33-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo in 2018. They may have just secured a ninth successive Serie A title, but it is the Champions League trophy the Italians would dearly love to lift. A goal down from the first leg in France, when manager Maurizio Sarri was left struggling to explain why his team failed to perform, Juve need their talismanic Portuguese attacker firing on all cylinders in Turin. Lyon, meanwhile, have just lost the French League Cup final to PSG and are short of competitive action after Ligue 1 was abandoned due to the coronavirus pandemic with 10 games still left to play. Prediction: Juventus 3 Lyon 1. Juve through 3-2 on aggregate. Reuters

Champions League predictions: joy for Juventus and Ronaldo, misery for Real Madrid and relief for Barcelona




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