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.
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.
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.
- 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.
