EUROPEAN champions Juventus opened up a one point lead at the top of Serie A after goals from France's Zinedine Zidane and, Yugoslav Vladimir Jugovic ruined Inter Milan's unbeaten record in Turin yesterday.

The 2-0 win gives Juventus 13 points from six matches, one ahead of AC Milan, who put successive league and European Cup defeats behind them with a 3-1 home win over Napoli.

Roy Hodsgon's Inter, leaders at the start of the day and unbeaten, in the league since May, drop to third with 11 points.

In a match both sides needed to win to go top, Juventus overwhelmed an Inter side containing six foreign internationals.

Only goalkeeper Gianluca Pagliuca and the woodwork after a diving header centimetres from the ground - stopped Croat Alen Boksic giving Juventus an early lead.

Then, in the 40th minute, Jugovic played a neat one two with Michele Padovano and placed a diagonal shot into the far corner.

Chile's Ivan Zamorano spurned Inter's best chance to re open the match in the 60th minute when he hit the post from six metres with only Angelo, Peuzzi to beat.

Two minutes later, Zidane, dropped for juventus's European Cup match last week, controlled a clearance from a corner on the edge of the area and in one smooth movement, stroked a dipping shot into the bottom corner.

With five defeats in 11 competitive matches, Milan started their match determined to shake off hints of crisis.

But it took 40 minutes for the breakthrough, Baggio's inswinging free kick creating havoc in the area and allowing George Weah to volley home his sixth goal of the season.

Straight after the break, Weah combined neatly with Marco Simone to put Milan two up only for Brazilian Andre Cruz to find another hole in the champions defence with a 20 metre shot.

But with Napoli threatening a second goal, Baggio showed glimpses of his old magic to escape his marker in the penalty area and slot Milan's third past Giuseppe Tagalatla.

Giampiero Maini scored a late equaliser at Udinese for Vicenza who lead Roma, Parma and Bologna in a group of four clubs tied for fourth place on 10 points.

Perugia coach Giovanni Galeone, at odds with club owner Luciano Gaucci, came out of hospital after suffering heart pains and was told to win at Parma or leave.

In a remarkable performance, Galeone's players rallied to their besieged manager's aid, scoring two goals in a four minute spell to inflict Parma's first home defeat of the season.

Salvatore Giunta sowed the seeds of Roma's second defeat in a week by curling a left foot shot past goalkeeper Giorgin Sterchele from the edge of the area on the half hour.

The visitors, still reeling from their 3-0 UEFA Cup loss to Karlsruhe, fought their way back into the game with Marco Delvecchio's 51st minute, equaliser only for Pierluigi Orlandini's 80th minute effort to give Verona their first win of the season and lift them off the bottom of the table.

With Bologna due to meet traditional rivals Fiorentina in next week's Italian Cup match, club president Giuseppe Gazzoni had billed yesterday's match at the Dall Ara as a dress rehearsel for the two club's traditionally hostile fans.

He was not impressed. Florentine supporters celebrated Gabriel Batistuta's spectacular, 30 metre opener in a 2-9 victory for the visitors by launching flares at Bologna fang.

When goalkeeper Luca Marchegiani was sent off after five minutes for handling. Lazio's poor season - five points in as many matches looked set to continue against Cagliari.

But Czech Paolo Nedved's piledriver and Giuseppe Signori's 50th minute solo effort gave Lazio a remarkable win.

. Jurgen Klinsmann suffered another frustrating night as Bayern Munich were held to a goalless draw by champions Borussia, Dortmund in the German first division last night.

Klinsmann failed to show his usual sharpness in front of goal as the Bavarians were foiled by Dortmund goalkeeper Stefan Klos on a damp night in Munich's Olympic stadium. Bayern stayed level on points with leaders VtB Stuttgart, who also drew 0-0 at Bayer Leverkusen on Friday.

. Hristo Stoichkov and Brazilian stars Ronaldo and Giovanni turned Barcelona's game with Logrones into a personal scoring battle as their side swept back to the top of the Spanish first division with a massive 8-0 win yesterday.