Juventus head coach Antonio Conte has urged his players to maintain their focus against Turkish side Trabzonspor in the first leg of their last-32 tie in the Europa League.

Conte said the fact that Trabzonspor topped a group containing Lazio means that they would cause his side problems, especially as they have strong players in all areas of the pitch.

"We will be facing a team that was in the group stage with Lazio and they closed that stage as leaders of their group," FourFourTwo quotes Conte as saying.

"We know they have excellent players in attack, they have expert players, and I'm referring to players such as Didier Zokora and Jose Bosingwa.

"They definitely have a lot of talented players, they have ingenious players such as Olcan Adin. We will need to be very careful and think at a game at a time and make sure we take things seriously."

Juventus come into the Europa League having been knocked out of the Champions League.

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Matt Domm