Carlos Tevez scored a solo goal after a run that started inside his own half to cap an emphatic 7-0 win for Serie A leaders Juventus over hapless Parma yesterday.

Tevez, Fernando Llorente and Alvaro Morata scored twice and Stephan Lichtsteiner was also on target as Juve won their 24th successive home league match.

Juve, who enjoyed their biggest Serie A win since they beat Ascoli by the same score 29 years ago, were already 3-0 ahead when Tevez produced his masterpiece just after the break.

The Argentine, recently recalled by his country, collected the ball and surged away from Andrea Costa before evading two more challenges and side-footing the ball past Antonio Mirante after a 70-metre sprint.

Juventus are top with 28 points from 11 games while Roberto Donadoni’s Parma are bottom with six points after their heaviest Serie A defeat.

Roma responded to Juve’s record-breaking hammering of Parma with a convincing 3-0 home victory over Torino but the Giallo-rossi remain three points behind their title rivals.

Roma produced a fine display at the Stadio Olimpico last night.

Francesco Totti pulled the strings for both Vasilis Torosidis’s opener and a sumptuous second-half strike from Adem Ljajic while Seydou Keita opened his account for Roma in between times.

Torino, meanwhile, drop one place to 14th after suffering a third straight away defeat.

Gonzalo Higuain’s sixth goal in four league games gave Napoli a 1-0 victory at Fiorentina that left them third with 21 points.

Inter’s troubles continued when they conceded a late goal and were held 2-2 by Verona after surviving a missed penalty and playing most of the second half with 10 men.

Inter led 2-1 with two Mauro Icardi goals before Gary Medel gave away a penalty and was sent off in the 51st minute.

Luca Toni, who had given Verona an early lead, saw his penalty saved by Samir Handa-novic only for Nicolas Lopez to equalise in the 89th minute.

Cagliari missed a penalty, an open goal and gave away an own goal in a 1-1 draw at home to Genoa.

Diego Farias gave the Sardinians an early lead but Genoa levelled when Luca Rossettini turned a Diego Perotti cross into his own net.

Cagliari won a 77th-minute penalty and Genoa had Stefano Sturaro sent off but Danilo Avelar’s spot-kick was saved by keeper Mattia Perin and Samuele Longo fired the rebound wide of a gaping net.

Palermo were awarded two penalties, the first converted by Paulo Dybala and the second missed by Franco Vazquez, in a 1-1 draw at home to Udinese who took an early lead through Cyril Thereau.

Chievo beat Cesena 2-1 to give coach Rolando Maran his first win while lowly Empoli surprised Lazio 2-1.

Serie A

Cagliari 1
Farias 16;
Genoa 1
Rossettini 53og;

HT: 1-0. Att: 8,000.
Red card: Sturaro (G) 75.
Missed penalty: Avelar (C) 76.

Chievo 2
Pellissier 48, 90;
Cesena 1
Djuric 88;

HT: 0-0. Att: 9,500.

Empoli 2
Barba 52; Maccarone 56;
Lazio 1
Djordjevic 67;

HT: 0-0. Att: 10,000.

Fiorentina 0
Napoli 1
Higuain 62;

HT: 0-0. Att: 31,987.

Inter 2
Icardi 18, 48;
Verona 2
Toni 10; Lopez 89;

HT: 1-1. Att: 27,314.
Red card: Medel (I) 51.
Missed penalty: Toni (V) 52.

Juventus 7
Llorente 24, 37; Lichtsteiner 30; Tevez 50, 58; Morata 76, 88;
Parma 0

HT: 3-0. Att: 39,097.

Palermo 1
Dybala 43p;
Udinese 1
Thereau 5;

HT: 1-1. Att: 15,658.
Missed penalty: Vazquez (P) 54.

Roma 3
Torosidis 8; Keita 27; Ljajic 58;
Torino 0

HT: 2-0. Att: 35,770.

Standings

  P W D L F A Pts
Juventus 11 9 1 1 25 4 28
Roma 11 8 1 2 19 6 25
Napoli 11 6 3 2 20 12 21
Sampdoria 11 5 5 1 14 8 20
Lazio 11 6 1 4 21 13 19
Genoa 11 5 4 2 15 11 19
Milan 11 4 5 2 20 16 17
Udinese 11 5 2 4 14 14 17
Inter 11 4 4 3 17 14 16
Verona 11 3 5 3 13 18 14
Fiorentina 11 3 4 4 10 10 13
Palermo 11 3 4 4 12 18 13
Sassuolo 11 2 6 3 10 15 12
Torino 11 3 3 5 7 12 12
Cagliari 11 2 4 5 17 17 10
Empoli 11 2 4 5 12 19 10
Atalanta 11 2 4 5 4 11 10
Chievo 11 2 2 7 8 16 8
Cesena 11 1 4 6 8 18 7
Parma 11 2 0 9 14 28 6

Top scorers
8 goals: Callejon (Napoli), Tevez (Juventus).
7 goals: Icardi (Inter)
6 goals: Honda (Milan), Di Natale (Udinese), Djordjevic (Lazio), Higuain (Napoli).

Next fixtures

Saturday, Nov. 22: 18.00 Atalanta vs Roma. 20.45 Lazio vs Juventus.

Sunday, Nov. 23: 12.30 Torino vs Sassuolo. 15.00 Cesena vs Sampdoria; Verona vs Fiorentina; Parma vs Empoli; Napoli vs Cagliari; Udinese vs Chievo. 20.45 Milan vs Inter.

Monday, Nov. 24: 20.45 Genoa vs Palermo.

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