Scorers: Amauri 27, 62 (J), Chiellini 42 (J), Camoranesi 50 (J), Pazzini 63 (S), Trezeguet 88 (J)

Juventus demolished Sampdoria 5-1 with Amauri's brace to get right back into the thick of the Scudetto race.

This was a top of the table battle between third and second, with Samp tasting the chance to become the new leaders. The Blucerchiati were certainly in better shape and fresh from thrashing Bologna 4-1, whereas Juve scraped a 1-0 victory at Siena to end their four-match winless streak.

The home side were without Tiago Mendes, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Martin Caceres, Alessandro Del Piero, Hasan Salihamidzic, Claudio Marchisio and Jonathan Zebina, but Franco Semioli and captain Angelo Palombo missed out for Samp. Amauri started despite a flu bug.

Samp had only ever won here four times, the most recent a 1-0 in 2004-05, drawing 17 and losing 31.

Diego has been disappointing recently, but seemed on fire in the opening stages and created a double chance charged down for Fabio Grosso and himself. On 10 minutes his corner found Giorgio Chiellini's header and a spectacular one-handed Luca Castellazzi save off the line!

Antonio Cassano got down the right and rolled across for Reto Ziegler, forcing Gigi Buffon to rush out and parry with his feet in the six-yard box.

Juventus had the better of the first half-hour and took a deserved lead. Amauri netted for the third game running, as his header from a corner was charged down, but he was quicker than anyone else to react and tap in the loose ball from six yards.

Gigi Del Neri reshuffled his side by introducing Claudio Bellucci as a trequartista, moving Ziegler into the defence.

It was 2-0 before the break thanks to Chiellini. He won back the ball in midfield and spread it for Amauri, ensuring he was ready to tap in the cross back from the left.

Marius Stankevicius drilled just wide, but Juventus had dominated the first half in Turin.

Straight after the restart, Castellazzi needed another stunning one-handed save to stop Stefano Lucchini scoring an own goal from a Diego free kick.

The Bianconeri continued their dominance and made it count. Diego threaded through for Sebastian Giovinco to run down the left and cross for Camoranesi's volley with the inside of his right foot.

Giovinco so nearly made it 4-0 on the counter from another Diego assist, but his snapshot only hit the side-netting. Diego's flying backheel flick set up Grosso to flash a shot across the face of goal.

Amauri got the fourth with a diving header on Camoranesi's taut cross from the right flank, glancing it into the far bottom corner.

Sampdoria at least got a consolation goal in Turin, as Giampaolo Pazzini got in front of his defender for a precise header from seven yards. Naturally the cross was from Cassano.

Daniele Mannini's cross-shot gave Buffon a scare late on, but substitute David Trezeguet took Juve's tally to five with a header from Grosso's cross.