Thiago Motta stressed the importance of Juventus playing at their very best when they face Lille in the Champions League on Tuesday. (More Football News)
Juve face a t🐽ough task against a side who have already upset Real Madrid and Atletico 🉐Madrid in this season's competition.
This will be the first ever meeting betwe🗹en these teams.
However, Juve have lost three of their laꦚst four Champions League matches against French opponents (W1), including both against Paris Saint-Germain in the 2022-23 campaign. and Motta warned against any complacency.
"All matches are important. We, as Juventus, always want to win. The most important thing is always trying to impro🐈ve," 🌼Motta told reporters on Monday.
"Lille are very confident, and we want to face them in op🐷timal condition. We aim to give more than our maximum.
"There are no favourites in a match. It's a beautiful game, in a beautiful sta൩dium, and we hope the pitch will be in good conditio🍎n tomorrow. We can only talk tomorrow about who played better."
Motta will have midf🐷ielder Douglas Luiz from injury, but is still without a glut of playeꦕrs.
"He's [Luiz] one more player who can help the team. We’ll be missing Arek [Arkadiusz Milik], Gleison [Bremer] and [Nicol🍃as Gonzalez]."
Lille boss Bruno Genesio knows Juve w𒁃ill present a stern test for his team, despite their shock wins over the 🗹Madrid clubs this term.
"Every Champions Leꦬague match is different, but there is one essential parameter to get a result - commitment," he said.
"Like all Itali💙an teams, Juventus are very well organised, very difficult to play against. Having already achieved two big results in this competition, we are going to give it our all again and we have our fans who will give us strength."
Jonathan David ꧒will be one of the standout Lille players Juve have to keep a close eye on.
The Canada international has scored six goals in his last eight ﷽Champions League appearances for Lille.
Lille have wonꦏ all five games he has scored in but have not won any of the six games he has featured in wi൩thout scoring (D2 L4).
