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Juve, goleada and primacy: it's up to Napoli to respond in the derby

With three goals from super Higuain, Juve knocks Sassuolo out with a tennis result (7-0) and provisionally leaps to the top of the standings pending the Campania derby where Napoli must absolutely beat Benevento if they want to regain the primacy

Juve, goleada and primacy: it's up to Napoli to respond in the derby

With a hail of goals, Juve knocked out Sassuolo with a tennis result (7-0), temporarily bypassed Napoli, leapt to the top of the standings and sent a signal of strength to Sarri's team and to the whole championship.

Now it's up to Naples to respond, going to Benevento to win the Campania derby if it wants to keep the lead in the standings and continue the race for the Scudetto against the Italian champions.

In Turin, on the other hand, there was practically no match, because Juve immediately unlocked it with a tap-in from Alex Sandro, which was followed by a brace from Khedira and a goal from outside the air from Pjanic. At the end of the first half, Juve was already 4-0 up over derelict Sassuolo, where Berardi is the shadow of that champion he was in the past, but the best was yet to come.

And in the second half, super Higuain took the chair and even scored a hat-trick, never giving himself a break and rightly taking home the ball of his triumph.

Juve are back in great shape, scoring goals in clusters and not conceding any but suffering a few too many injuries: after Dybala, Cuadrado and Douglas Costa today Matuidì got hurt (muscle strain), which is the key element of the midfield but who will have to miss not only Friday's match against Fiorentina but above all the first leg match against Totthenam in the Champions League. But today is a holiday Sunday for the Bianconeri

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