Champions League
2025-10-22 - Real Madrid vs Juventus
A Sports Betting Pick by Auls
Football: UEFA Champions League
Wednesday 22nd October 2025 - Kick Off 8pm
This game is live on TV
Real Madrid
For a Club that is judged on winning the Champions League/European Cup, a Quarter Final defeat last season would have been seen as a massive underachievement. That puts immediate pressure on the Real Madrid players to have a much stronger campaign this time around and fans will be also be expecting the team to finish in the top eight after only finishing 11th last time around and being forced into the first Knock Out Round in February.
Consecutive wins in the Champions League to open this year means Real Madrid are 2nd in the early standings and they will be looking to remain perfect through Match Day 3. They did have to come from behind to beat Marseille in the first game played at home, but that does mean Real Madrid have won 4 of the last 5 home Champions League games played.
Real Madrid were beaten in the Club World Cup Semi Final by Paris Saint-Germain, but they have won 10 of the opening 11 games played in all competitions this season. Since losing to Arsenal at home in the Champions League Quarter Final Second Leg, Real Madrid have won 9 in a row here in all competitions.
Injuries have decimated the defensive options available to Xabi Alonso, while Real Madrid could have one eye on the upcoming fixture against Barcelona to be played on Sunday.
Juventus
Between 2012 and 2020, Juventus won nine consecutive Italian titles and they finished Runners Up in the Champions League twice, but the Old Lady have fallen on tougher times of late. They are back in the Champions League for a second year in a row, but Juventus failed to reach the Last 16 last season and this is a Club that have not finished higher than 3rd domestically since the last title was secured.
Draws with Borussia Dortmund and Villarreal have given Juventus some work to do in this Champions League Group after finishing 20th in the League Phase last time around. They will travel to Spain sitting in 23rd spot in the standings, while Juventus have not won any of their last 5 away Champions League fixtures.
Juventus reached the Last 16 of the Club World Cup, but they had begun this season unbeaten in 8 games in all competitions before the upset 2-0 defeat at Como a few days ago. However, it should be noted that the previous 5 games had all ended in draws. Juventus have now failed to win any of their last 3 away games in all competitions.
Head to Head
Real Madrid beat Juventus in the summer at the Club World Cup- that fixture ended 1-0 in favour of the Spanish team.
These two Clubs last met in the Champions League in the 2018 Quarter Final and both were able to score three goals in winning away from home, although Real Madrid scored a late Penalty in the Second Leg to progress 4-3 on aggregate.
Juventus have lost 1 of their last 4 visits to Real Madrid.
Prediction
You cannot ignore the fact that Real Madrid have a very big game coming up this weekend against Barcelona and that could be a distraction.
There are also injuries at the back which could leave the home team vulnerable, but this Juventus team may not be capable of exploiting those.
Draws have been the main outcome of recent Juventus results, including in both Champions League games played, but they were beaten 2-0 at Como out of the October international break.
This is not the Juventus team of recent years that won nine straight League titles and Real Madrid will note that they beat this opponent in the Last 16 of the Club World Cup. The Spanish team were clearly the better team on that day and they have won 9 straight at home, which makes Real Madrid the most likely winner of this one.
Juventus have just been struggling in a lot of aspects of their football at the moment and that could see Real Madrid produce a third straight victory in the Champions League.
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The Pick :
Real Madrid 2-1 Juventus
