Milan: Carlos Tevez scored a stunning goal to help Juventus crush Parma 7-0 and move provisionally six points clear at the top of the Serie A table on Sunday.
Tevez ran most of the length of the field and beat four men to score Juventus' fourth before doubling his tally minutes later.
"We had a great game," said Tevez, who was recently called up to the Argentina squad for the first time in nearly three and a half years. "It was important to win and we were good in making hardly any errors. After the last international break, we missed so many goalscoring opportunities, today we made up for our previous mistakes and we were perfect in front of goal."
Fernando Llorente and substitute Alvaro Morata also both netted twice, and Stephan Lichtsteiner was also on target to send Parma to its heaviest defeat in Serie A.
Second-placed Roma host Torino later.
Lazio missed the opportunity to move level with Roma after a 2-1 loss at Empoli.
Chievo Verona beat fellow struggler Cesena 2-1 to move off the bottom of the table, while Palermo drew 1-1 at home to Udinese. Cagliari were also held 1-1 by 10-man Genoa.
Fiorentina host Napoli and Inter Milan entertain Hellas Verona later on Sunday.
Parma travelled to Turin hoping they had kickstarted their season with last week's surprise 2-0 win over Inter Milan who had ended a club record run of six consecutive defeats.
Juventus, who were coming off the back of a 3-2 victory over Olympiakos in the Champions League, took the lead in the 24th minute when Llorente rushed in to tap home the rebound after Paul Pogba's shot was parried by Antonio Mirante.
Lichsteiner doubled Juve's advantage five minutes later with a scorching 25-yard strike into the top right corner and the Switzerland defender unselfishly crossed for Llorente to volley home his third goal in as many games in the 36th.
Tevez had the whole stadium on their feet with his superb individual goal five minutes after the break and he went off to a standing ovation shortly after doubling his tally when Mirante again only parried a Pogba strike.
Morata beat the offside trap to tap home Kingsley Coman's pass, five minutes after coming off the bench, before completing Parma's misery with a volley two minutes from time.
Parma are bottom of the table again as half-time substitute Sergio Pellissier scored his first two goals of the season for Chievo, heading in the winner moments after Milan Djuric's equalizer two minutes from time.
Lazio were looking for a sixth win in seven matches while Empoli were hoping to avoid a fourth successive defeat.
The home side took a surprise lead when Federico Barba headed home a corner for his first Serie A goal seven minutes into the second half.
Massimo Maccarone doubled Empoli's lead three minutes later before Filip Djordjevic headed in what proved to be a consolation for Lazio.
Palermo could have recorded their fourth win in five matches but Franco Vazquez saw his penalty saved by Orestis Karnezis and Paulo Dybala headed off the upright.
Dybala had earlier equalised from the spot shortly before halftime after Cyril Thereau had given Udinese a fifth-minute lead.
Cagliari also missed a penalty in the lunchtime kickoff.
Diego Farias struck his first Serie A goal to put the Sardinian side in front but Genoa was gifted an equalizer when Luca Rossettini tried to intercept a Diego Perotti cross at full stretch and turned it into his own net.
Cagliari should have taken all three points as Daniele Conti curled a free kick onto the post and was brought down by Stefano Sturaro as the move continued.
Sturaro was sent off but Danilo Avelar saw his penalty saved by Mattia Perin and Simone Longo ballooned the rebound wide with the goal gaping.
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