David Trezeguet and Pavel Nedved scored a goal each Saturday as Juventus beat lowly Modena 2-0 to consolidate its lead in Italy's top league.
La Juve, which stretched its unbeaten streak to 10 matches, has 26 points in the Serie A standings, five clear of AS Roma and AC Milan, which are tied in second place ahead of Sunday's matches.
The Roman team is at Bologna and AC Milan is at Chievo Verona.
Inter Milan closed the gap on the top places by thrashing Reggina 6-0 at home on a scoring spree by Fabio Cannavaro, Obafemi Martins, Andy van der Meyde, Francisco Farinos, Julio Ricardo Cruz and Christian Vieri.
The third consecutive win since coach Alberto Zaccheroni took over from dismissed Hector Cuper vaulted Inter to 19 points, back into the title fight.
Italy captain Cannavaro opened the scoring in the 33rd minute with a sensational drive from 30m -- his seventh goal in a 12-year Serie A career.
"I shut my eyes and I kicked," Cannavaro said.
Martins, taking advantage of some lucky rebounds, beat four Reggina defenders and scored with a diagonal shot in the 42nd. The 19-year-old Nigerian forward celebrated with a streak of somersaults.
Juventus and Inter Milan had their Serie A games on Saturday because of their Champions League commitments.
Inter Milan will play Arsenal at San Siro tomorrow while Juventus' match with Galatasaray, originally scheduled on the same day, was postponed by UEFA to Dec. 2 following suicide attacks in Istanbul.
Juventus, which already qualified for the next round of the European competition, has been pressing UEFA to play Galatasaray at a neutral venue in its Group D game.
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