Gonzalo Higuain is fit to continue, but the red mist seems to have descended behind the eyes.

He needs a helpful Gary Lineker-type to tell the bench to watch out for him.

The last thing Juventus need is him looking to do a hatchet job on Kamil Glik and to get himself sent off and suspended.

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Here is a little bit of spice to the pot.

Gonzalo Higuain is down and in pain. He is punching the floor. It looks like Kamil Glik has trampled across his thigh as the Argentine has gone to the floor.

The Juve fans are whistling, wanting the ball played out so their man can get treatment.

Monaco ignore them. Until Mario Mandzukic comes careering across to take out Fabinho and clear the ball into touch.

Protest and finger-pointing all round. Leonardo Bonucci is shown yellow for taking it too far.

Feisty.

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A slip from Dani Alves, a slide-rule pass from Bernardo Silva, but Kylian Mbappe fluffs his shot as the ball bobbles in front of him and duffs into Gianluigi Bufffon's shins from a tightening angle.

There has been a Monaco switch that I missed.

Benjamin Mendy, who only came into the side after Nabil Dirar was injured in the warm-up, has come off to be replaced by Fabinho.

Nothing to lose now. And Mendy might be needed at the weekend.

Juventus could make mincemeat, or at least a finer grade of mincemeat, of Monaco if they had a pacier striker than Gonzalo Higuain up front.

He can't motor away from Kamil Glik as the pair go mano-on-mano in a pace race.

Paulo Dybala departs early after suffering with a bit of cramp at the weekend.

On comes Juan Cuadrado - still on loan from Chelsea - who wastes a good chance with his first involvement.

The winger was caught between trying to pick out Gonzalo Higuain and just putting his size nine through the back of the ball.

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Giorgio Chiellini is marauding forward, fancying himself as a play-making libero as well as an teak-tough stopper.

He cannot quite get on the end of a Dani Alves pull-back through as Kamil Glik stretches and stabs clear.

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Benjamin Mendy hoofs the ball into the stands in frustration after being pinged for a foul on Paulo Dybala.

A booking and a talking to for the Monaco left-back.

Monaco have started the half brightly. Just as they did in the two first halves of this tie so far.

Joao Moutinho drills into the hoardings from 20 yards.

There is a sense of anti-climax though at the Juventus Stadium. This is a coast to the final rather than a battle.

What have Monaco got left then?

How much ticker are they going to show in the second half?

Or, with the French title a win away with three games to go in Ligue 1, is discretion the better part of valour?

This game is surely gone.

Dani Alves' stats from that first half are something.

He has had more touches than any other Juve player (40), made a team-high number of tackles (four) and regained possesion more time than any of his team-mates (six).

And he scored one goal and set up the other.

We are back up and running.

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Monaco needed to make this difficult for Juventus, nick an opener, lets the home nerves start to twitch and see what might happen.

Maybe they have been just a bit too gung-ho a bit too early.

The stats from the first half are revealing, they have had pressed Juve back, but left too much space in behind.

Juve-Monaco

Shots: 10-6

On target: 6-0

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Heading for a coronation, rather than a contest, of a second half.

That is about as close as Juventus have come to conceding in the last 11 hours of Champions League football.

Benjamin Mendy gets in behind down the left and whips in a defender's nightmare of a cross - low, skidding and fizzing across the face of goal.

Kylian Mbappe can't quite get a touch and Giorgio Chiellini does magnificently to steer it behind when he seemed to destined to put through his own net.

Radamel Falcao loses his footing and slips straight into back of Giorgio Chiellini as the Juventus defender is attempting to bring the ball out from the back.

A genuine mistake, but the referee flourishes a yellow card anyway.

Gonzalo Higuain drills in a daisycutter from 20 yards and a tightening angle.

Monaco goalkeeper Danijel Subasic gets down in time, but his evening is getting increasingly busy.