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11/29/2001. Juventus once again transformed themselves from struggling Serie A side into European powerhouse as they thrashed Champions League rivals Bayer Leverkusen 4-0 on Thursday afternoon.

The game, that was originally scheduled to kickoff last Wednesday, was finally able to take place this afternoon after thick fog once again forced an ulterior postponement last night.

The home side immediately began to dominate the match, demonstrating that despite they have enormous problems faring well in league action, where they have won only one match in their past seven outings, in Continental action it's a whole different story.

The one similarity between league and European action in the Bianconeri side was the umpteenth excellent performance by French striker David Trezeguet whose goals on either side of the break began and ended Juventus’ scoring spree.

Trezeguet also acted a as a superb assist man for the black and white outfit, as he supplied Del Piero in the play that brought to Juve’s second of the afternoon, thereby exchanging favours with the Juve skipper whose elegant cross had allowed the Frenchmen to head home Juve’s lead in the 7th minute.

Also Nedved, who together with Del Piero desperately needed to bounce back from last Saturday’s lackluster performance in the Stadio Olimpico, contributed to Juve’s goal feast at it was thanks to his perfect incursion inside the box that Trezeguet was able to clinch his second of the afternoon.

On their part Bayer were only able to threathen Juve during the middle of the first half, but all their comeback hopes were thwarted by Igor Tudor’s goal on the stoke of halftime that allowed Juve to seal the game off even before the second half kicked off.

With the three points Juve join Deportivo at the top of the Group D table, while Bayer share the last place with Premiership outfit Arsenal.