Juventus 2-2 Chelsea: result and report
Champions League · Tuesday 10 March 2009
Result
Juventus 2-2 Chelsea
Champions League · Tuesday 10 March 2009, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Juventus 2-2 Chelsea: match report
Juventus drew with Chelsea 2-2 in the Champions League on Tuesday 10 March 2009. The half-time score was 1-1.
Vincenzo Iaquinta opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Juventus's goals came from Vincenzo Iaquinta (19') and Alessandro Del Piero (74', penalty). Chelsea scored through Michael Essien (44') and Didier Drogba (83').
Discipline: Juventus received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Chelsea received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Juventus were 11th on 16 points from 9 and Chelsea 12th on 14 points from 7. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Juventus lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Chelsea in a 4-1-4-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Juventus wins, 0 draws and 1 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Juventus's last five read L-D-D-W-W and Chelsea's W-W-D-L-W.
Key events
- 19'Goal · Vincenzo Iaquinta
- 44'Yellow card · Hasan Salihamidzic
- 44'Goal · Michael Essien
- 54'Yellow card · Giorgio Chiellini
- 63'Yellow card · Petr Čech
- 69'Yellow card · Didier Drogba
- 70'Second yellow · Giorgio Chiellini
- 74'Penalty goal · Alessandro Del Piero
- 83'Goal · Didier Drogba
- 88'Yellow card · Ashley Cole
- 90+1'Yellow card · Nicolas Anelka
- 90+2'Yellow card · Alessandro Del Piero
Head-to-head
Team news
Juventus line-up (4-3-1-2)
Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Zdenek Grygera, Pavel Nedved, Claudio Marchisio, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Alessandro Del Piero, David Trézéguet, Olof Mellberg, Cristian Molinaro, Tiago
Chelsea expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Petr Čech, Alex, Ashley Cole, John Terry, Michael Ballack, Florent Malouda, Michael Essien, John Mikel Obi, Nicolas Anelka, Joe Cole