Defending champions Juventus clebrated coach Antonio Conte;s return with a win, beating Palermo 1-0 in Serie A on Sunday. Stephan Lichtseiner scored five minutes into the second half for Juventus, Which also hit the goalframe twice through Mirco Vucinic.
Palermo had a first-half strike from Fabrizio Miccoli ruled out for offside and also had Michel Morganella sent off 15 minutes from time after picking up his seconds yellow card.
It was Conte's first match back on the bench after serving a four month ban for failing to report match-fixing when he coatched Siena two seasons ago.
Juventus is now five points ahead of Napoli, which faces third-plsce Inter Milan later Sunday. Elsewhere, AC Milan continued its recent resurgence with its third consecutive league victory, winning 4-2 at Torino, but midfielder Nigel De Jong's season is over after he snapped his achilles tendon.
Juventus should have taken the lead in the 36th when Claudio Marchisio's shot was deflected straight to Vucinic, who side-footed the ball onto the right post from six yards with the goal gaping. The serie A leaders started to get into the game and again almost went in front two minutes from halftime when Arturo Vidal stole the ball off Jasmin Kurtic and put in a delightful through ball, which Alessandro Matri fired Straight at goalkeeper Samir Ujkani.
Vucinic hit the post again 30 secons after the restart before helping Juventus finally broke the deadlock five minutes later. Vucinic beat Steve Von Bergen to cheast down a long pass from Andrea Pirlo and Backheel it for the onrushing Lichtsteiner to free home,
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