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 didn't appear far from how the Turin club played 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.” Six more games were scheduled for later Sunday.

AC Milan was hosting Lecce with freshly signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic on hand at the San Siro.

Five-time defending champion Inter Milan opens at Bologna on Monday, three days after getting beaten by Atletico Madrid in the European Super Cup.

On Saturday, AS Roma was held to a 0-0 draw by newly promoted Cesena, which was playing its first Serie A match in 20 years.
 
Liverpool back to winning ways  

Fernando Torres opened his account for the season as Liverpool beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 on Sunday to claim its first win in the Premier League, while Darren Bent scored Sunderland's injury-time winner against Manchester City.

Liverpool started the match in the league's bottom three on just one point but Torres' 65th-minute volley allowed his team to climb into 13th place on four points. West Brom had James Morrison sent off with five minutes left.

Bent converted a penalty in the fourth minute of stoppage time as Sunderland won 1-0 against big-spending City, which was looking to join Arsenal and Manchester United on seven points.

Elsewhere, Aston Villa beat Everton 1-0 thanks to Luke Young's ninth-minute strike to go fourth and Robbie Blake scored with a late free kick as 10-man Bolton recovered from going two goals down to draw 2-2 with Birmingham.

Chelsea leads the table with nine points after winning its first three games, the latest coming against Stoke on Saturday.

Torres started on his own up front after being rested for Liverpool's win in Trabzonspor on Thursday, which qualified the five-time European champions for the group stage of the Europa League, and played an integral part of most of his side's attacking moves at Anfield.

The Spain striker squandered a number of half-chances in the first half but found the target in the 65th minute when he met a cross by Dirk Kuyt with a right-foot volley into the bottom corner.

“He is trying very hard at the moment and he is playing catch-up — we've said it many times before — but I think that goal will be great for his confidence,” Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson said of Torres.

Center back Martin Skrtel also went close for Liverpool, who bounced back from a 3-0 defeat at City on Monday.

Morrison was sent off by referee Lee Probert after being penalized for a lunge at Torres as West Brom slipped to its second defeat in three matches.

A glaring miss by Carlos Tevez proved costly as City lost for the first time this season, dropping to ninth spot as a result.

Tevez missed an open goal in the 16th minute after being played in by Yaya Toure, and Bent made City pay by shooting his penalty low past Joe Hart deep into injury time after the England striker was fouled by Micah Richards.

City dominated the first half but failed to take advantage of their grip on the game, while Sunderland made the most of its opportunity despite losing striker Fraizer Campbell with what looked a serious injury.

At Villa Park, right back Young ran onto a through ball by namesake Ashley Young and placed his left-foot strike past the despairing dive of Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard for the winner.

Villa required some desperate defending to maintain its lead and climb to six points, with Everton midfielder Steven Pienaar seeing a shot strike the bar in the first half and Villa goalkeeper Brad Friedel producing two great saves to deny substitute Louis Saha in the closing minutes.

Central defender Roger Johnson put Birmingham in front after four minutes against Bolton and was then involved in the incident that led to the sending-off of Bolton goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen in the 37th.

Craig Gardner added a second for Birmingham in the 50th minute but Bolton bounced back, with Kevin Davies' penalty reducing the deficit and Blake's curling free kick 10 minutes from time sealing a superb comeback.