Juventus vs Man City Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup | Group Stage

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Two European giants in Juventus and Manchester City meet in their final FIFA Club World Cup group game with little on the line as both have already qualified.

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How to watch on TV & online: UK – DAZN / US – DAZN

Juventus team news: A few changes

It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Juventus make a few changes for their final group stage campaign, with the Bianconeri having wrapped up qualification after comfortable victories against Wydad Casablanca and Al Ain.

Predicted XI (3-4-2-1): Di Gregorio; Kalulu, Gatti, Kelly; Costa, Koopmeiners, Douglas Luiz, Kostic; Conceicao, Yildiz; Vlahovic

Unavailable: 

Questionable: Locatelli (Fitness)

Man City team news: Probable rotation

England international defender Rico Lewis was sent off in City’s opener against Wydad and so he remains suspended. They are expected to rotate fairly heavily for this one as Pep Guardiola seeks to keep his squad fresh for the knockout stages.

Predicted XI (4-3-3): Stefan Ortega; Khusanov, Stones, Dias, Ake; Gundogan, Rodri, Foden; Cherki, Haaland, Echeverri

Unavailable: Lewis (Suspended)

Questionable: 

Key stats

• The two clubs met on Matchday 6 of the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League in Turin, Juventus winning 2-0 with second-half goals from Dušan Vlahović and Weston McKennie. That was Juve’s fourth win – and third in a row – in seven European club competition encounters with City, who have won only one, the first.
• Juventus have won their last four matches in all competitions, registering 14 goals.
• Kenan Yildiz has scored in Juve’s last three competitive outings (four goals).
• Manchester City have won all their four FIFA club competition matches without conceding a goal (GF-15 GA-0).
• City have won 11 of their last 16 matches in all competitions (W11 D3 L2).
• Pep Guardiola has won ten successive matches in FIFA club competitions (4 x Man City, 2 x Bayern, 4 x Barcelona) and his teams have kept clean sheets in their last eight matches (4 x Man City, 2 x Bayern, 2 x Barcelona).
• Against Al Ain, City changed their entire starting XI from their opening match against Wydad.
• Apart from City’s 2-0 defeat against Juventus on Matchday 6 of the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League in Turin, Pep Guardiola’s only previous matches as a head coach against Juventus were when he was in charge of the Bayern München side that knocked Juventus out of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League in the round of 16 (2-2 a, 4-2 h aet).
• Juve’s Teun Koopmeiners plays for the Netherlands with City duo Tijjani Reijnders and Nathan Aké. Koopmeiners and Reijnders were also teammates at Dutch club AZ (2018-2021).
• Juventus’s Bremer and Douglas Luiz and City’s Ederson and Savinho are all senior internationals for Brazil.
• Juve’s Francisco Conceição and Renato Veiga are Portugal national team colleagues of City’s Ruben Dias and Bernardo Silva.
• Juve’s Douglas Luiz signed for Manchester City as a 19-year-old from Vasco da Gama in 2017, though he never played a senior match in his two years at the club due to work permit issues and was loaned out to Girona twice. During his time at Aston Villa and Juventus he has faced City 12 times (11 with Villa and once with Juve).
• Juve’s English defender Lloyd Kelly is on loan at Juventus from Newcastle. He never made an appearance against City for Newcastle but did take to the field against them four times as a Bournemouth player.
• Juve’s Weston McKennie was on loan at English club Leeds in 2023 and made one appearance against City during his spell. The USA international also faced City in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 when he was at Schalke and scored against them for his current club in a 2-0 victory in the league phase of that competition earlier this season.
• City’s recent signing Tijjani Reijnders faced Juventus five times over the last two seasons with his former club AC Milan. Reijnders was named in the 2024/25 Serie A Team of the Season and was also named the Serie A Best Midfielder of the season for the campaign just gone.
• Pep Guardiola made two appearances against Juventus for Brescia when he played in Italy in the early 2000’s. He faced Juve’s head coach Igor Tudor in both fixtures, losing 5-0 and 2-1. The City boss did come out on top in their only other meeting as players; a 3-1 victory for Spain against Croatia in a friendly match in May 1999.
• City’s Rayan Cherki and Juve’s Pierre Kalulu were in French club Lyon’s academy together, playing in the youth team and for Lyon ‘B’. The pair were also teammates for France at youth levels before both making their senior debut for the France national team earlier this month against Spain in the UEFA Nations League. Juve also have two other French players in their ranks, Khéphren Thuram and Randal Kolo Muani.

Juventus vs Man City prediction

Coached by former Lazio boss Igor Tudor, Juventus started their FIFA Club World Cup campaign with a 5-0 demolition of Al Ain in their opener, leading by four goals to nil at half-time. The Bianconeri then backed that up with a 4-1 hammering of Wydad Casablanca the other day.

They now face a Manchester City side that, embarking upon a new era with several new additions, began their FIFA Club World Cup campaign with a comfortable 2-0 defeat of Wydad before then dispatching of the aforementioned Al Ain by six goals to nil in their most recent outing.

Juventus have discovered some fluency in this competition, as have City, but it has come against weak sides and, with little to play for, a fairly uneventful clash is to be expected.

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