Football: Juve come to life with five-goal win

MILAN: Juventus ended their run of four successive Serie A draws with an emphatic 5-0 thrashing of Fiorentina. Juve got off the mark in style as Mirko Vucinic curled in a shot from the edge of the area after 15 minutes. Six minutes later, Fiorentina had Alessio Cerci sent-off for kicking Paolo De Ceglie off the ball and when Chilean Arturo Vidal scored a second for the visitors before the half hour, it was over as a contest. Claudio Marchisio, Andrea Pirlo and substitute Simone Padoin were also on target after the break. Second-placed Juventus stayed four points behind AC Milan after the leaders won 2-0 at Parma with a Zlatan Ibrahimovic penalty and a brilliant solo goal by Urby Emanuelson.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 19^th, 2012.