ADVANTAGE JUVENTUS AFTER VILLARREAL FIRST LEG

Italian football giants Juventus have a slight advantage as the home team in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League round of 16 clash with Spanish La Liga side Villarreal after the first leg at the El Madrigal ended in a 1-1 draw. The Italian football heavyweights are the favourites to go through to the quarterfinals at the end of the second leg billed for the Allianz Stadium in Turin in March because of home advantage.

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Villarreal were one of the most in-form teams in La Liga ahead of their first leg clash with Juventus, but they made a bad start against the Italian football giants when they could not stop Serbian international DusanVlahovic from scoring after a long ball out of the Juventus defence from Brazilian star Danilo. Vlahovic was playing his first Champions League game in the colours of the Old Lady whom he joined from fellow Italian football side Fiorentina last month. The Serbian had a lot of interests from the Premier League, but his preference has always been to sign for Juventus and he did just that before the latest winter transfer window ended some weeks ago. Juventus paid around €75m to secure his transfer from Fiorentina.

Fiorentina star DusanVlahovic is one of the most in-demand strikers on the European football stage and his Italian football side has slammed an asking price of €80m (£68.4m) on him as interested clubs attempt to sign him ahead of the resumption of the transfer window in the New Year.

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Serbian international Vlahovic is one of the best strikers on the Italian football scene. The 21-year-old is an out-and-out central striker who finds the back of the net regularly. Vlahovic enjoyed a breakthrough season in Italian football when he scored 21 goals for Fiorentina in the Italian Serie A. The Serbian player has ten goals already this season and he could score at least 30 goals in the Italian football top flight this season if he maintains his current rate of finding the back of the net in the Italian Serie A.