* The match starts at 2:45 a.m. on Wednesday, February 25, according to Hanoi time.
The competition in the first leg of the 1/8 round of this year’s Champions League at Juventus Studium evokes memories of the 1996-1997 Champions League season, when Dortmund defeated Juventus in the final to win the championship.
It is impossible to say which team has the stronger strength in the upcoming match, but Juventus fans certainly cannot forget the bitter defeat against Dortmund 18 years ago.
At that time, Juve was considered the strongest team in the world with a squad including many great players such as Zinedine Zidane or Didier Deschamps, who became world champions a year later.
Karl-Heinz Riedle scored twice for Dortmund in the first 34 minutes, leaving Juventus stunned and losing in the final 18 years ago.
Although after that, substitute striker Del Piero scored a beautiful goal with a skillful backheel to help Juve shorten the score in the 65th minute, Dortmund’s `homegrown` player Lars Ricken quickly scored.
Corriere della Sera newspaper headlined “Juve – a night of tears and anger” after the Italian team’s defeat.
Another article in Corriere della Sera lamented that Juve had been in “an evening without God”.
Since this match, the two teams have gone to different stages in the club’s history.
However, what makes the upcoming match attractive does not lie in the strength or performance of the two teams.
Both Antonio Conte and Jurgen Klopp built Juve and Dortmund from mental strength.
Conte (left) and Klopp are the people who built the current football philosophy at Juventus and Dortmund.
“If we don’t run at 200 miles per hour, we’re just a normal team,” Conte once said when asked what makes Juventus strong.
So does Jurgen Klopp.
Juve will try to control the match thanks to Pirlo’s ability to regulate, but the veteran’s slow steps are also a risk for the Italian team against the mobility of Dortmund.
Both Juve and Dortmund are obsessed with a certain type of strategy.
However, recent statistics show that Dortmund’s decline this season is not just because of their lack of luck.
However, Dortmund has just experienced three consecutive wins.
Di Khanh
