Champions League lineups: Juventus vs. VfB Stuttgart

Francisco Conceicao, Kenan Yildiz and Douglas Luiz support Dusan Vlahovic as Juventus host VfB Stuttgart in the Champions League.

Kick-off takes place at 8pm UK time (7pm GMT) at the Allianz Juventus Stadium in Turin.

You can follow all the build-up and action of this game, Milan-Club Brugge and Aston Villa-Bologna, on the live blog.

The Bianconeri won both of their opening European Cup games, beating PSV Eindhoven 3-1, then fought back when down to 10 men to claim an incredible 3-2 away win at RB Leipzig.

Michele Di Gregorio was sent off in this game and is therefore suspended. He will be replaced by Mattia Perin in goal.

Nico Gonzalez, Teun Koopmeiners, Gleison Bremer and Arek Milik are injured, leaving Douglas Luiz in the starting lineup for the second consecutive season, with Kenan Yildiz and Conceicao slotting in behind Vlahovic.

Weston McKennie returns to midfield with Nicolò Fagioli and Danilo makes a rare start in defense.

VfB Stuttgart has so far lost 3-1 to Real Madrid and drawn against Sparta Prague in the Champions League, but suffered a 4-0 defeat against Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga at the weekend.

They have a very long injury list including Chris Fuhrich, Dan-Axel Zagadou, Nikolas Nartey, Leonidas Stergiou and Luca Raimund.

In addition, Wahid Faghir, Justin Diehl, Ramon Hendriks, Nick Woltemade and Stefan Drljaca are excluded from participating in this competition.

Coach Sebastian Hoeneß makes some changes and brings Enzo Millot into defense for Fabian Rieder and Max Mittelstadt.

Juventus vs. VfB Stuttgart lineups

Juventus: Perin; Savona, Kalulu, Danilo, Cabal; Fagioli; Conceicao, McKennie, Douglas Luiz, Yildiz; Vlahovic

VfB Stuttgart: Nubel; Mittelstädt, Chabot, Rouault, Vagnoman; Stiller, Karazor; Leweling, Undav, Millot; Demirovic

Ref: Eskas (NOR)

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