TURIN, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 13: Igor Tudor, Head Coach of Juventus, celebrates with Kenan Yildiz after the team's victory in the Serie A match between Juventus FC and FC Internazionale at Allianz Stadium on September 13, 2025 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Images)
TURIN, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 13: Igor Tudor, Head Coach of Juventus, celebrates with Kenan Yildiz after the team's victory in the Serie A match between Juventus FC and FC Internazionale at Allianz Stadium on September 13, 2025 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Images)
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.
COMO, ITALY - OCTOBER 19: Marc Olivier Kenpf of Como 1907 celebrates with his team-mate Nico Paz after scoring their team's first goal during the Serie A match between Como 1907 and Juventus FC at Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium on October 19, 2025 in Como, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)
COMO, ITALY – OCTOBER 19: Marc Olivier Kenpf of Como 1907 celebrates with his team-mate Nico Paz after scoring their team’s first goal during the Serie A match between Como 1907 and Juventus FC at Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium on October 19, 2025 in Como, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)
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.
Confirmed Juventus squad for Real Madrid
VILLARREAL, SPAIN - OCTOBER 01: Players of Juventus pose for a team photograph prior to the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Phase MD2 match between Villarreal CF and Juventus at Estadio de la Ceramica on October 01, 2025 in Villarreal, Spain. (Photo by Aitor Alcalde/Getty Images)
VILLARREAL, SPAIN – OCTOBER 01: Players of Juventus pose for a team photograph prior to the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Phase MD2 match between Villarreal CF and Juventus at Estadio de la Ceramica on October 01, 2025 in Villarreal, Spain. (Photo by Aitor Alcalde/Getty Images)
**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.
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