This will be the seventh UEFA Champions League meeting between Galatasaray and Juventus, though the first to come in the knockout rounds of the competition. The Turkish side have lost just one of the prior six games between the pair (W2 D3), winning the last meeting 1-0 in December 2013.
Juventus have failed to win any of their three away UEFA Champions League games against Galatasaray (D1 L2); they’ve only ever faced Deportivo de La Coruña (4 – D2 L2) more times on the road in the competition without winning.
Galatasaray have lost just two of their last 11 UEFA Champions League games against Italian sides (W5 D4), while they are unbeaten in the competition on home soil versus Italian opposition (W5 D3).
After remaining unbeaten across their first five UEFA Champions League games against Turkish opposition between 1996 and September 2003 (W3 D2), Juventus are since winless across their last three (D1 L2).
This will be Galatasaray’s first knockout stage match in the UEFA Champions League since the 2013-14 edition (0-2 loss away to Chelsea in the last 16). The Turkish side are unbeaten in home matches in the knockout stages of the competition (W2 D2), with their two wins both being 3-2 victories in quarter-finals against Real Madrid (in 2000-01 and 2012-13).
Juventus are unbeaten in their five UEFA Champions League games under Luciano Spalletti (W3 D2), while keeping a clean sheet in the last three. They last kept four consecutive shutouts in the competition in the 2016-17 edition (a run of six), when they eventually finished as runners-up.
Galatasaray have only lost one of their last 11 home matches in major European competition (W6 D4), with that lone defeat coming versus Union Saint-Gilloise last November (0-1). That was also the only time across their last 18 home games in major European competition that Galatasaray had failed to score.
Luciano Spalletti has only lost two of his last 16 games in the UEFA Champions League (W10 D4), across spells with Internazionale, Napoli and current club Juventus. He is unbeaten in the most recent six (W3 D3), and could achieve his longest streak without defeat in the competition here (7 games).
Victor Osimhen has scored six goals in six appearances in the UEFA Champions League this season; the only Galatasaray player to net more in a single edition of the European Cup/Champions League is Burak Yilmaz (8 in 9 appearances in 2012-13).
Juventus’ Kenan Yildiz is the second youngest player to create 10+ chances (12) and complete 10+ dribbles (16) in the UEFA Champions League this season (aged 20), only behind Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal (aged 18).