Juventus are looking for their third straight win to kick off the Champions League league phase as they take on Stuttgart in Turin on Tuesday night.
Thiago Motta’s Juve have been defined by their vintage defensive resilience at the start of the new manager’s tenure, and they produced an impressively controlled display at the weekend to edge past ten-man Lazio 1-0 in Serie A.
Motta’s side have remarkably conceded just once in eight league games this season, with much of the chaos involving Juve arriving in the Champions League.
After easing past PSV on Matchday 1, the Italians overcame plenty of adversity to defeat RB Leipzig 3-2 away from home last time out.
Stuttgart haven’t been quite as productive at the start of the new season, and their defensive frailties reared their ugly head at the weekend as they were trounced 4-0 by Bayern Munich.
Sebastian Hoeness’ side sit tenth in the Bundesliga having drawn three of their seven games, and they currently rank 25th in the league phase table having claimed just one point from a possible six.
Juventus: (4-3-3): Perin; Cambiaso, Gatti, Kalulu, Cabal; Locatelli, Luiz, Fagioli; Conceicao, Vlahovic, Yildiz.
