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After ending up in first place in Champions League Group H, Juve will go on to the Champions League knock-out stage Last 16. On February 22, top tier Portugal Premeira Liga club Porto will host titan Italian Serie A side Juventus at Estadio do Dragao in Porto, Portugal in the first Champions League Last 16 leg tie between the giant clubs, with the return match in Torino, Italy at Juventus Arena on March 14. The very best, legal, authentic, guaranteed Juventus Champions League tickets are for sale now securely online from the secure LiveFootballTickets.com football tickets marketplace website at cheap prices.

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Match Report

Juventus 1-0 AS Roma
Juve goal: Gonzalo Higuain 14’

Juventus superstar striker Gonzalo Higuaín punished rival Roma to send Juventus seven points clear of Roma on the Serie A Table. Juventus tops the Italian Serie A Table with 42 points going into the Christmas holidays after Round 17. Roma are in second with 35 points, Napoli and Lazio have 34 points apiece. Argentinian Gonzalo Higuaín struck home in the 14th minute to give the Serie A leaders Juve a 1-0 victory against Roma in a tense top-of-the-table clash which put them seven points clear on Saturday. The goal was Higuain’s 10th of the season, his 3rd in the past 2 games. Juve celebrated their 25th consecutive home Serie A win that put them on track for a 6th consecutive Serie A trophy. With one match to go before the Christmas break, Juventus have 42 points from 17 games, followed by Roma on 35, and Milan on 33 after they were held 0-0 at home by Atalanta.

Roma have been Serie A league runners-up to Juventus twice in the last three seasons. An early shot was saved by Wojciech Szczesny before Higuain opened the scoring for Juve when the former Napoli and Real Madrid player received a pass 30 metres from goal, then got past Daniele De Rossi and Kostas Manolos to deliver a left-foot shot on target. Roma had only three shots on target and no goals due to Juve’s strong defense. Higuaín enraged fans, teammates, and Napoli manager Maurizio Sarri when he left Napoli and Sarri to join Juventus during the 2016 summer transfer window. Higuaín’s summer move to Napoli’s arch-rival Juve was motivated by a desire for silverware. Reportedly he still felt a deep affection for fans in Naples.

“Core ‘ngrato” or “ungrateful heart” was said about the South American striker who left Napoli for Juventus, and who subsequently scored against his old manager and team in a crucial match that may prove to be the title decider. “He is still a son to me,” said Sarri. “But his transfer to Juventus did hurt me a lot. I still feel a great deal of affection towards him, and I think 10 years from now we’ll get back in touch.” After thie loss to Juve, Roma’s head coach Luciano Spalletti reportedly said that he may leave the club in the summer if he fails to lead them to the Serie A title following on from a 1-0 defeat to Juventus. "If I cannot win, I'm leaving." Spalletti's contract is due to expire at the end of the 2016-17 season.

Italian Super Cup Final 2016

The 2016 Supercoppa Italiana or Italian Super Cup Final is the 29th edition of the Supercoppa Italiana, Italian football supercup. It will be played on December 23, 2016 at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, Qatar. Juventus won both the 2015–16 Italian Serie A championship and the 2015–16 Coppa Italia. The Super Cup Final will be played between Juventus and the 2015–16 Coppa Italia runners-up, Milan.

However the Super Cup Final in Doha has been placed under threat news that the Rossoneri may refuse to play the game due to travel delays. AC Milan have warned they may refuse to face Juventus in Friday's scheduled Supercoppa Italiana after their flight to Qatar was cancelled due to technical problems. Milan CEO Adriano Galliani says that any further delays when they attempt to travel on Wednesday will put them at a serious disadvantage to Juve. "We have suffered serious sporting damage,” said Galliani. "Juventus are already at Doha and we could arrive there only in the night, having time only for one training session the day before the match." Meanwhile Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri has named his 24-man side for Friday's Super Cup final against Milan in Doha. The Bianconeri's Super Cup Final match squad in full is as follows:

1 Buffon
3 Chiellini
4 Benatia
5 Pjanic
6 Khedira
7 Cuadrado
8 Marchisio
9 Higuain
11 Hernanes
12 Alex Sandro
15 Barzagli
17 Mandzukic
18 Lemina
20 Pjaca
21 Dybala
22 Asamoah
24 Rugani
25 Neto
26 Lichtsteiner
27 Sturaro
32 Audero
33 Evra
40 Coccolo
41 Andersson

Leo Bonucci has extended his Juventus tenure by renewing his contract until 2021. Bonucci’s Bianconeri career to date is one of the most significant individual success stories in the club’s history with a constant increase since he joined from Bari in 2010. Leo’s 291 appearances and 185 victories playing for Juve mean that he has played and won more often than any other outfield player at Juventus over the course of the last six seasons. Bonucci has built a reputation in Turin for his quality and ball skills that have seen him become the side’s key creator. To date in the 2016-17 season, Leo boasts figures far above the average defender in Serie A and Champions League for completed passes per game. To date Bonucci has16 strikes for Juve this campaign making him the Bianconeri’s highest scoring defender since the 2010-11 season. Goals against Roma, Milan, Inter, Napoli, Fiorentina and Lazio by Bonucci have been key to Juve’s winning ways this campaign. His goal against Sevilla sealed Juve’s progress going through to the Champions League Last 16 knockout stages. Juve captain Leo Bonucci is a respected leader both during matches and in the dressing room. Bonucci netted the winning spot-kick in Juventus’ Coppa Italia semi-final against Inter Milan.

Carlos Tevez signs huge Chinese Super League deal

Former Juventus superstar footballer Carlos Tevez’s move to play professional football in China will make him the highest paid player in the world. Tevez is leaving his current club Boca Juniors for Chinese club, Shanghai Shenhua, making him the latest player to sign up with the China Super League for an astounding fee. Reportedly, Shanghai Shenhua will pay Tevez $762,000 per week or $37.5 million per year on a two-year contract, that will earn Tevez $75 million for his time in China. Tevez is now the highest paid player in the world. Tevez began his career in the Boca Juniors academy and, after a European career that concluded with Juventus, went back to the Argentine club in the summer of 2015.

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