Juan Cuadrado and Sami Khedira struck late as Juventus surged four points clear atop Serie A in a 3-1 victory over AC Milan at Allianz Stadium on Saturday.
Leonardo Bonucci had looked set to play the role of pantomime villain when he cancelled out Paulo Dybala's opener with a 28th-minute header against his old club.
But the end of the champions' 10 successive Serie A clean sheets was eventually softened by substitute Cuadrado, the winger nodding in Khedira's cross.
Khedira himself then completed the win with a clinical effort as Juve opened up a precious gap to second-placed Napoli, who drew 1-1 at Sassuolo earlier in the day.
2017/2018 Serie A
Match Events
8' GOAL! Juventus 1-0 Milan (Dybala)
Pjanic passes to Dybala who had so much room in front of the penalty area.
The Argentine receives the pass, turns to face goal and has a shot that finds the bottom corner! It was perfect placement from the striker as even at full-stretch, Donnarumma was unable to get his fingertips to it.
28' GOAL! Juventus 1-1 Milan (Bonucci)
Calhanoglu’s corner from the left is met well by Bonucci who turns it in past Buffon! 1-1 at the Allianz Stadium!
79' GOAL! Juventus 2-1 Milan (Cuadrado)
Douglas Costa feeds the ball to Sami Khedira who sends a perfect far-post cross to the unmarked Cuadrado who nods the ball into the far corner, wrong-footing Donnarumma and restoring Juventus’ lead! 2-1 Juve.
87' GOAL! Juventus 3-1 Milan (Khedira)
Douglas Costa draws two defenders towards him before cutting it back for Dybala.
The Argentine then finds Khedira at the top of the penalty area and he makes no mistake from that range, burying it into the near corner. 3-1 to Juventus who look to have increased their lead over Napoli to four points!
Line-ups
Juventus XI: Gianluigi Buffon, Chiellini, Benatia, Barzagli, Lichtsteiner, Pjanic, Khedira, Matuidi, Asamoah, Higuaín, Dybala
Subs: Carlo Pinsoglio, Wojciech Szczesny, De Sciglio, Höwedes, Rugani, Cuadrado, Marchisio, D.Costa, Sturaro, Bentancur
Milan XI: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Calabria, Romagnoli, Bonucci, R.Rodríguez, Bonaventura, Calhanoglu, Biglia, Kessié, Suso, A.Silva
Subs: Marco Storari, Antonio Donnarumma, Zapata, Musacchio, Antonelli, Mauri, Montolivo, Locatelli, N.Kalinic, Borini, Cutrone
fangchang
54
Milan played a good match all the way up to when Kalinic and Montolivo came on. Their subs just aren't on the same level as Juve's. Still though, this could have been a different match if that shot from Hakan had gone in instead of hitting the crossbar. It's scary how efficient Juve are in front of goal. A month ago they only needed one shot on target to beat Lazio away, one fucking shot in the 90th minute. Not quite the same tonight, but some sort of mentality which is what so many other teams in this league are missing.
Shadownet
25
Now juve leads by 4points.. Now they are heads up to face Madrid soon It will be a very Interesting match between two of Europe's Finest