Rome, Oct 27: Juventus and AC Milan each won easily yesterday to maintain their lead atop the Italian League.
Juventus beat Roberto Baggio's Brescia Club 2-0 on goals by Pavel Nedved and David Trezeguet. Milan downed Sampdoria 3-0 behind two scores from serie a leader Andriy Shevchenko and one from Jon Dahl Tomasson.
Juventus and Milan _ last year's Champions League finalists _ each have 19 points and a five-point lead ahead of AS Roma and Parma, which won 3-0 Sunday against a Modena side that finished with 10 men.
Roma was to play Inter Milan in the featured night matchup at San Siro, with Alberto Zaccheroni making his debut as Inter coach following Hector Cuper's firing last week.

Elsewhere on a gray day throughout much of the peninsula, Lazio edged Bologna 2-1 on Bernardo Corradi's header in second-half injury time after an own-goal by Lazio's Ousmane Dabo had evened the match.



In Perugia, Udinese's Dino Fava scored a hat-trick before Massimo Margiotta drew the hosts level at 3-3 in the 89th. Reggina and Ancona drew 0-0 in the afternoon's only other game.



In Turin, Baggio had a weak penalty shot saved by Juve and national team goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon four minutes in. In the sixth, Nedved scored one of the most spectacular goals of the season thus far.


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