Juventus 2-0 Dinamo Zagreb: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 7 December 2016
Result
Juventus 2-0 Dinamo Zagreb
Champions League · Wednesday 7 December 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Juventus 2-0 Dinamo Zagreb: match report
Juventus defeated Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday 7 December 2016. The half-time score was 0-0.
Gonzalo Higuaín opened the scoring in the 52nd minute. Juventus's goals came from Gonzalo Higuaín (52') and Daniele Rugani (73'). Dinamo Zagreb did not score.
Discipline: Juventus received 2 yellow cards; Dinamo Zagreb received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Juventus were 17th on 11 points from 5 and Dinamo Zagreb 16th on 12 points from 11. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Juventus lined up in a 3-5-2 and Dinamo Zagreb in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Daniele Rugani of Juventus (8.0), level with Mario Lemina (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Juventus win, 0 draws and 0 for Dinamo Zagreb.
Going into the match Juventus's last five read W-D-W-W-D and Dinamo Zagreb's L-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 15'Yellow card · Gonzalo Higuaín
- 52'Goal · Gonzalo Higuaín
- 54'Yellow card · Patrice Evra
- 61'Yellow card · Ante Coric
- 73'Goal · Daniele Rugani
Head-to-head
Team news
Juventus line-up (3-5-2)
Neto, Medhi Benatia, Daniele Rugani, Patrice Evra, Juan Cuadrado, Mario Lemina, Claudio Marchisio, Miralem Pjanić, Kwadwo Asamoah, Gonzalo Higuaín, Mario Mandžukić
Dinamo Zagreb line-up (4-3-3)
Dominik Livakovic, Mario Situm, Leonardo Sigali, Gordon Schildenfeld, Josip Pivarić, Nikola Moro, Bojan Knežević, Amer Gojak, El Arbi Hillel Soudani, Ante Coric, Junior Fernandes