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AC Milan opens Serie A win 4-0 win
AC Milan opened Serie A with a bang on Sunday, beating Lecce 4-0 and introducing freshly signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic to the San Siro crowd at halftime.
Alexandre Pato scored twice, Thiago Silva also found the net in the first half and substitute Filippo Inzaghi added the 154th Serie A goal of his career in the 90th minute.
With his transfer from Barcelona finalized Saturday, Ibrahimovic walked out on a red carpet at halftime and told the fans: “I came here to win. This year we’re winning everything.”
The former Inter Milan striker then returned to his seat next to Milan president and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and club vice president Adriano Galliani.
Ibrahimovic will probably make his Milan debut in two weeks’ time against newly promoted Cesena.
Earlier, a revamped Juventus lost 1-0 to Bari, with Massimo Donati scoring a 43rd-minute winner.
Napoli and Fiorentina drew 1-1 in a match that both sides ended with 10 men.
Newly signed Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani put Napoli in front in the seventh minute — though replays showed that the ball did not cross the goal line after it bounced down from the crossbar. Gaetano D’Agostino equalized for Fiorentina in the 50th after being set up by Alberto Gilardino.
Sampdoria bounced back from its Champions League playoff loss by beating Lazio 2-0 with goals from Antonio Cassano and Stefano Guberti.
Also, it was: Chievo Verona 2, Catania 1; Palermo 0, Cagliari 0; and Parma 2, Brescia 0.
Five-time defending champion Inter Milan opens at Bologna on Monday, three days after losing to Atletico Madrid in the European Super Cup.
On Saturday, AS Roma was held to a 0-0 draw by Cesena, which was playing its first Serie A match in 20 years.
Pato put Milan in front in the 16th minute, using quick control following a pass from Massimo Ambrosini before scoring with a precise low, angled shot.
Thiago Silva made it 2-0 in the 25th from close range and Pato scored his second goal five minutes later, taking a through pass from Ronaldinho that left him with only the goalkeeper to beat.
Inzaghi hit the post in the 64th, three minutes after he came on, but then scored from the middle of the area after Gennaro Gattuso and newly signed Kevin-Prince Boateng carried the ball forward.
Juventus acquired eight new players in the offseason, hired new coach Luigi Delneri and changed presidents — from Jean-Claude Blanc to Andrea Agnelli. Despite the changes, the performance against Bari was barely an improvement on last season, when it struggled to a seventh-place finish.
Having come on midway through the first half for injured Alessandro Gazzi, Donati scored with a powerful shot from beyond the area shortly before halftime.
Juventus’ best chances came in the final minutes, when it scrambled for a draw.
Fabio Quagliarella sent a bouncing shot wide in the 90th and Giorgio Chiellini headed high three minutes into added time.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” Delneri said. “We don’t know each other that well.”
Juventus hadn’t lost its opening game since going down 1-0 to Sampdoria in 1982.
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