Alvaro Recoba set up two goals by Julio Ricardo Cruz in Inter's 2-1 win over Spartak Moscow in the Champions league on Wednesday.

Recoba made his season debut and Cruz played his first full game of the season.

``There has been a lot of talk about Inter's strikers recently. Today everyone played well,'' Cruz said after the game. ``Recoba had a great game and Adriano also played well when he came in.''

Still, Adriano hasn't scored in any competition for Inter since March 29 of last season. He sat out training Monday, apparently depressed.

``Adriano is still not completely OK,'' Inter owner Massimo Moratti said. ``The hierarchy is determined game by game by players' form and all of them are of the highest quality.''

Crespo could return against Udinese on Sunday (GolTV, 9 a.m. ET). A pulled leg muscle has kept the Argentina forward out since Oct. 1. Ibrahimovic, who was banned Wednesday, Ibrahimovic has scored only one goal in eight appearances _ in Inter's Serie A opener against Fiorentina.

Inter leads Serie A with 14 points, two more than AS Roma and Palermo.

On Sunday, Roma hosts Chievo Verona which is led by coach Luigi Del Neri after he was rehired on Monday to replace the fired Giuseppe Pillon.

Del Neri coached Chievo from 2000 to 2004 and is still revered for taking Chievo from Serie B to three consecutive top-10 finishes in Serie A. He also led Roma for 24 games in 2004-05.

Roma beat Olympiakos 1-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday with a second-half goal by Simone Perrotta.

Roma midfielder Amantino Mancini is struggling with a pulled a muscle in his left thigh. Montenegro striker Mirko Vucinic could play against Chievo for the first time since his pre-season move from Lecce.

Palermo visits AC Milan on Sunday (GolTV, 5 p.m. ET on tape delay).

Milan has only four points after beginning the season with an eight-point penalty for its role in the Italian match-fixing scandal.

Milan beat Anderlecht 1-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday with a 24-yard shot by Kaka.

That prompted club chairman Adriano Galliani to declare that ``Kaka is the greatest player in the world, or at least very close to it.''

On Saturday, Juventus visits Triestina in Serie B, with captain Alessandro Del Piero seeking his 200th goal with the bianconeri.

Juventus' record is the best in Serie B but it still has minus-1 point after beginning the season with a 17-point penalty. Geneoa leads Serie B with 15 points.

Juventus has not played in the northeastern city of Trieste in 47 years and a large influx of fans is expected from nearby Slovenia and Croatia.

Also Saturday, Messina hosts Empoli (GolTV, 10:30 p.m. on tape delay) and Cagliari welcomes Torino in Serie A (Fox Sports World Canada, 2:30 p.m. ET).

Sunday's other top division games are Atalanta versus Sampdoria, Catania versus Lazio (Fox Sports World Canada, 9 a.m. ET), Fiorentina versus Reggina, Livorno versus Siena and Parma versus Ascoli.