Heading into this match, Andrea Pirlo’s side are on a two-match home unbeaten run in the Champions League. Across those fixtures, the Old Lady have scored five goals and conceded just one. Juventus will be hoping to end a barren European run against Porto, having been eliminated from five of their last six Champions League knockout ties when losing the first leg. Porto, on the other hand, have not lost in their last six European matches. Moreover, the Dragons have kept clean sheets in each of their last two fixtures on the road. However, the visitors Porto have been eliminated in each of their last three Champions League knockout ties after winning the first leg.
Following their two-goal Serie A victory over Lazio, Andrea Pirlo makes three changes to his starting side. Bonucci comes into the defence in place of Bernardeschi, Arthur replaces the suspended Danilo, and Ronaldo starts ahead of Kulusevski. Sergio Conceicao, on the other hand, makes two alterations for this clash. In come Sanusi and Mbemba for Nanu and Leite, who both drop to the bench.
PORTO SUBS: Diogo Costa, Malang Sarr, Diogo Leite, Fabio Vieira, Mamadou Loum, Marko Grujic, Toni Martinez, Francisco Conceicao, Felipe Anderson, Luis Diaz, Nanu, Evanilson.
JUVENTUS SUBS: Carlo Pinsoglio, Gianluigi Buffon, Radu Dragusin, Matthijs de Ligt, Giorgio Chiellini, Gianluca Frabotta, Weston McKennie, Nicolo Fagioli, Alessandro Di Pardo, Federico Bernardeschi, Dejan Kulusevski.
PORTO (4-4-2): Agustin Marchesin; Wilson Manafa, Chancel Mbemba, Pepe, Zaidu Sanusi; Corona, Sergio Oliveira, Mateus Uribe, Otavio; Mehdi Taremi, Moussa Marega.
JUVENTUS (4-4-2): Wojciech Szczesny; Juan Cuadrado, Leonardo Bonucci, Merih Demiral, Alex Sandro; Federico Chiesa, Arthur, Adrien Rabiot, Aaron Ramsey; Alvaro Morata, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Following their 2-1 loss to their visitors at Estadio do Dragao in the first leg, Juventus defeated Lazio 3-1 in their latest Serie A outing. Porto also come into this off the back of a win, beating Gil Vicente 2-0 last time out in the league.
Hello and welcome to live match coverage of the Champions League round of 16 second-leg fixture between Juventus and Porto at Allianz Stadium.
Porto are winless in their previous 13 away games in the Champions League knockout stages (D4 L9). Their last such victory came against Deportivo de La Coruna in the semi-finals back in the 2003-04 season.