Miserly Juventus out to finish the job

Juventus travel to the Stade Chaban-Delmas on Matchday 5 seeking to follow hosts FC Girondins de Bordeaux in booking their place in the last 16.

• Group A leaders Bordeaux made sure of their continued involvement in the UEFA Champions League in the new year by winning at FC Bayern München last time out and Juventus will join them provided they at least match Bayern's result at home to Maccabi Haifa FC.

• Bordeaux sit top of the section with ten points, two more than Juventus, and victory will secure them first place in the pool – and their best ever points haul in the competition. The Ligue 1 outfit previously collected 12 points when advancing from the first group stage in 1999/2000.

Previous meetings
• Bordeaux earned a 1-1 draw at Juventus on Matchday 1 when Jaroslav Plašil struck with 15 minutes remaining to cancel out Vincenzo Iaquinta's 63rd-minute opener for the home team.

• The clubs first met in the 1984/85 European Champion Clubs' Cup semi-finals when Juventus prevailed 3-2 on aggregate en route to winning the trophy.

• Juventus gained a 3-0 first-leg lead through goals from Zbigniew Boniek (27), Massimo Briaschi (60) and Michel Platini (62) in Turin but Bordeaux ran them close in the return, narrowing the deficit to a single goal as Dieter Müller (25) and Patrick Battiston (80) found the net.

• Juventus subsequently beat Liverpool FC in the final but for Bordeaux that last-four appearance remains the pinnacle of their European Cup achievement.

• The starting lineups for the clubs' previous meeting at the Stade Chaban-Delmas on 24 April 1985 were:
Bordeaux: Dropsy, Thouvenel, Specht, Battiston, Tusseau, Rohr (Chalana 56), Tigana, Girard, Giresse, Müller, Lacombe.
Juventus: Bodini, Favero, Caricola, Scirea, Cabrini, Briaschi (Prandelli 87), Bonini, Tardelli, Platini, Boniek, Rossi (Tacconi 65).

Match background
• Bordeaux are looking to make it three wins out of three at home in the competition but they may not find it easy against a Juventus side yet to concede on their travels.

• Indeed Juventus have the meanest defence in the UEFA Champions League, having leaked just one goal in 360 minutes to date.

• Bordeaux will hope to fare better than when they last welcomed Italian opposition, going down 3-1 to AS Roma in the 2008/09 group stage.

• Juventus coach Ciro Ferrara was a player when the club last visited France for a 2-2 draw with Stade Rennais FC in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1999. Alessandro Del Piero is the only survivor of that Juventus team.

• Del Piero scored in Juventus's most recent UEFA Champions League tie away to Ligue 1 opposition, a 3-2 defeat at AS Monaco FC in the 1997/98 semi-final which secured a 6-4 aggregate success.

Team ties
• The two coaches, Bordeaux's Laurent Blanc and Ferrara of Juventus, were team-mates at SSC Napoli in 1991/92. Blanc had two spells as a player in Italy, later spending two years at FC Internazionale Milano from 1999.

• Blanc played alongside David Trezeguet in the France outfit that captured the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA EURO 2000™.

• Alou Diarra featured alongside Trezeguet in the France team defeated by Italy in the 2006 World Cup final. The triumphant Azzurri side included Gianluigi Buffon, Mauro Camoranesi, Fabio Cannavaro, Del Piero and Fabio Grosso, who converted the winning spot-kick.

• Yoann Gourcuff made 36 Serie A appearances for AC Milan between 2006 and 2008, scoring two goals.

• Fernando was based in Italy with Calcio Catania and AC Siena between 2003 and 2005.

• Tiago won successive French titles with Olympique Lyonnais in 2006 and 2007.

• Grosso was also a two-time champion with Lyon in 2007 and 2008. He finished on the winning side twice against Bordeaux in Ligue 1 but lost the 2008 French Super Cup on penalties despite his own successful conversion.

• Juventus's French-born midfielder Mohamed Sissoko has a 100 per cent winning record in matches against Bordeaux. He helped Liverpool record home and away victories in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League group stage, having previously featured for Valencia CF in a 2-1 success at Bordeaux in the first leg of a 2003/04 UEFA Cup quarter-final tie his team eventually won 4-2.

• Zdeněk Grygera scored past Bordeaux goalkeeper Ulrich Ramé when the former's Czech Republic side won 2-0 in France in 2003.