Juventus head coach Thiago Motta. Juventus head coach Thiago Motta.

Juventus head coach Thiago Motta has pleaded with his forwards to do more after they drew 0-0 away to Club Brugge on Tuesday in the Champions League. (More Sports News)

That result means that Juventus slip to 14th in the 36-team table, while it was their 16th draw from 30 matches in all competitions this season.

The Italian side struggled to create any meaningful opportunities, with a late Manuel Locatelli effort the only shot on target during the entire match.

With plenty of players now returning from injury for them, Motta believes that now is the time for the forwards within the team to step up their performance level.

"Finally, we are starting to get some players back from injury, above all in attack," Motta told Sky Sports.

"We started with Samuel Mbangula, Nico Gonzalez and Timothy Weah, then Kenan Yildiz, Dusan Vlahovic and Francisco Conceicao came on.

"These are all players who can give us something more. Our forwards are the ones who at the moment have to contribute more to the team."

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Motta was not purely negative in his post-match comments though, and did reserve some praise for Locatelli and Douglas Luiz who, he believes, excelled in their defensive and midfield roles in Belgium.

"It is a way of staying balanced, Manu understands the right moment to drop deep or push forward," he said.

Ahmad Nadeem, standing right on the left edge of the goal mouth, found the ball from inside the D just in the sixth minute of the opening whistle. He was in the perfect position to execute a slight deflection into the Indian goal and that is what he did to push Pakistan ahead in the match.

"Douglas Luiz is a player with superior technical quality711bet, in good shape physically right now and did very well in recent matches."