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Pepe: "Juventus play the best player in the world, but I expect to win"

Before the Champions League quarter-final, the Porto stopper complimented Cristiano Ronaldo, who said: "I hope this is the first step on a long road" (Wednesday, 22:00, No. 5)

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 5:20 p.m.

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Gives respect to the opponent, but expects to pass a stage.

Ronaldo (Photo: GettyImages, Soccrates Images)

Juventus are not consistently impressive this season, but in the final round of the Champions League home stage they managed to defeat Barcelona 0: 3 away, which arranged for them a relatively comfortable meeting with Porto in the quarter-finals and prevented them from meeting Paris Saint-Germain.

Now Yuba will try to take advantage of the relatively convenient lottery she received to achieve a good foreign result.

The host arrives in a not-so-bad mood after three consecutive draws in the league and another in the cup and is 10 points behind leading Sporting Lisbon, while Yuba lost 1-0 to Napoli on Saturday.

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These two teams met in the last 16 of the Champions League also in 2016/17, so Juventus won 0: 2 away and completed the work with 0: 1 at home and this time too the Italians are of course clear favorites to advance.

Porto did not lose at home in the home leg and in total it carries a streak of 13 games without a loss in the home stage (10 wins and three draws).

Cristiano Ronaldo, who left Sporting Lisbon for Manchester United 18 years ago and has since also played for Real Madrid and now Juventus, returns to Portugal at 35 and hopes to do what he almost always does in the knockout stages of the Champions League: conquer.

It is set to open at the front alongside Albero Murata.

Ronaldo tweeted ahead of the game: "This is a very important game against a strong team and I just hope it is the beginning of a long walk on the way to the final. We respect the opponent, desire victory and are 100% focused on our goals."

His coach Andrea Pirlo said: "The Champions League is a special competition, there are a lot of teams fighting to win, everyone wants it and it all depends on the moment you are when you meet the opponent. It is important to be mentally prepared."

Ronaldo will meet his former Real Madrid team-mate and Portuguese team-mate Pepe, who said: "I expect a victory. We know it will be very difficult, Juventus have excellent players and in my opinion also the best player in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo. Everything and we will follow the instructions that the coach gave us. "

The composition of the game

4: 3: 3

• A.

  Marchesin

• and.

  Manapa

• That.

  Ambamba

• Papa

• P.

  Sanosi

• M.

  Uribe

• Bus

• S.

  Oliveira

• To.

  Dias

• M.

  Marga

• H.

  Corona

4: 4: 2

• and.

  Szczesny

• Danilo

• third.

  Cagliani

• M.

  De Licht

• Alex Sandro

• F.

  Keisa

• R.

  Bentencourt

• A.

  Rabio

• and.

  McNee

• about.

  Ronaldo

• A.

  Murata

Porto

Coach:

Sergio Conceição

Juventus

Coach:

Andrea Pirlo

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