Problematic Juve given injection of faith

Juve won 4-0 at the early Serie A strugglers on Sunday to record their first league victory of the fledgling campaign, but no one is getting carried away at the once great Turin club.

"The victory is certainly an injection of faith for the future, even though we know we shouldn't flatter ourselves," new coach Luigi Del Neri told reporters.

"We still have certain difficulties to overcome but playing like this the results will come."

Big spending during the transfer window brought in good players such as Serbia's Milos Krasic rather than the really top talent like Michel Platini and Zinedine Zidane which Juve fans had been spoiled with during the 1980s and 1990s.

The damage to the brand from their 2006 demotion for match-fixing and Inter Milan's recent dominance of the Italian game means Juve have struggled to recruit the very best.