Official: Juventus confirm 23-man squad to take on Real Madrid

Igor Tudor has officially confirmed his travelling squad of 23 Juventus players to take on Real Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday evening, including a return to the first-team set-up for Fabio Miretti. 

Juventus will take on Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu in the third round of Champions League league phase fixtures at 20.00 BST on Wednesday evening. 

The Bianconeri are coming in off the back of a troubling run of form, which has seen them go without a win in any competition since September 13. Tudor fell to his first defeat of the season in a 2-0 loss away against Como in Serie A over the weekend. 

Looking to bounce back under mounting pressure from the Juventus senior management, Tudor and his squad have one of the toughest possible fixtures fast approaching: Away against Real Madrid in the Champions League. 

Tudor has 23 players at his disposal in Madrid. Among them are four goalkeepers, the returning Miretti, who has not featured since returning from his loan spell with Genoa, and the return of Edon Zhegrova, who missed out on the defeat to Como with muscular fatigue. 

Pre-match reports confirmed that 16-year-old and 19-year-old Primavera and Next Gen talents Maxime De Brul and Francesco Crapisto had trained with the first-team squad on Tuesday, but they have not been included in the official squad for Real Madrid. 

Goalkeepers: Di Gregorio, Perin, Pinsoglio, Fuscaldo. 

Defenders: Gatti, Kelly, Kalulu, Rugani, J.Mario, Cambiaso. 

Midfielders: Locatelli, Koopmeiners, Adzic, Kostic, Thuram, Miretti, McKennie. 

Forwards: Conceicao, Vlahovic, Yildiz, Zhegrova, Openda, David.