Five Great Reasons For Neutrals To Support Juventus In The Champions League Knockout Stages This Year

4) Italy’s last hope

For those of us who grew up with “Football Italia” on our screens (actually I didn’t ever watch it, I’m not sure who did, but everyone claims to have done), the current state of Italian football is pretty dire. AC and Inter’s squads are as weak as they’ve been in living memory, Roma’s star player is Gervinho, and Napoli are managed by Rafael Benitez.

Juventus are Italy’s one remaining representative, and you should want to see them do well.