CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL FIRST LEG
LINEUP, BOOKINGS (1) & SUBSTITUTIONS (6)
Juventus
- 01 Buffon
- 26 Lichtsteiner
- 19 Bonucci
- 03 Chiellini
- 33 Evra
- 08 Marchisio
- 21 Pirlo (Barzagli - 74' )
- 23 Vidal
- 37 Pereyra (Sturaro - 87' )
- 09 Morata (Matri - 83' )
- 10 Tévez
Substitutes
- 07 Pepe
- 14 Llorente
- 15 Barzagli
- 20 Padoin
- 27 Sturaro
- 30 Storari
- 32 Matri
Monaco
- 01 Subasic
- 24 Raggi (Berbatov - 71' )
- 06 Carvalho Booked
- 05 Abdennour
- 03 Kurzawa
- 02 Tavares
- 22 Kondogbia
- 07 Dirar (Veiga de Carvalho e Silva - 51' )
- 08 João Moutinho
- 17 Ferreira-Carrasco
- 23 Martial (de Carvalho - 87' )
Substitutes
- 09 Berbatov
- 12 de Carvalho
- 13 Fortuna dos Santos
- 15 Veiga de Carvalho e Silva
- 16 Stekelenburg
- 18 Germain
- 21 Echiéjilé
Ref: Pavel Kralovec
Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo could return from a calf injury as the Serie A champions bid to make their first Champions League semi-final since 2003.
The Italy playmaker has not played for seven weeks but has been passed fit for Tuesday's quarter-final first-leg visit of Monaco.
Ex-Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is out with a hamstring injury.
Monaco captain Jeremy Toulalan and defender Ricardo Carvalho are likely to miss out through injury.
Pirlo, 35, has not featured since picking up an injury in the first leg ofJuve's victory over Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League last 16.
But coach Massimiliano Allegri could put the midfielder straight back in the side after Saturday's shock Serie A defeat by bottom-of-the-table Parma, when Juventus rested a number of regular players.
"I hope this setback serves us well, although I'm sure that we will see an altogether different Juventus on Tuesday," said Allegri.
"We're not used to losing. We were a little listless; we lacked bite and aggression. But now we have to put this display behind us.
"It would be stupid to let a defeat like this get in the way of our Champions League dream."
Juventus, top of Serie A by 22 points, have not lost any of their last 11 European games at home and have only been beaten once in 16 European matches since the new Juventus Stadium was opened in 2011.
Monaco, Champions League runners-up in 2004, have scored only seven goals in eight games in reaching the quarter-finals, three of them in a single match away to Arsenal, and have conceded a mere four.
Last season's Ligue 1 runners-up, still in the running for the French title, have recovered from a slow start this season after key players James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao departed to Real Madrid and Manchester United respectively.
"Clearly Juventus are the favourites," Monaco midfielder Joao Moutinho told the club's official website. "But after we knocked out Arsenal, the clubs look at us differently.
"When James and Falcao left and the club did not sign players with international experience, everyone thought that we would just finish in the top 10 in Ligue 1 and we would not pass the group stage in the Champions League, but we proved them wrong
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