Good evening and welcome to our LIVE text coverage on the first day of the new Serie A season. Champions Juventus get their title defence underway with a home fixture against Parma in Turin. Follow me on Twitter @liamhappe and tweet your predictions and thoughts over, I will be publishing them throughout.

Full time! Juventus begin with a win, though it didn't come easy. Lichtsteiner and Pirlo with the goals before a late Parma rally is held off. Thanks for joining me this evening! Be sure to check out the full report and stats on uk.yahoo.eurosport.com and follow me on Twitter for more sports news and musings - @liamhappe

Another short corner before the ball is dinked into the box where Matri collects... but is offside.

Pirlo and Vidal work it short to burn down seconds before winning another.

Now Vidal almost puts Matri clean through with a delicate through pass. The striker recovers the ball anyway and forces a corner.

Juve play the role of counter-attackers in a rare sight, but are eventually forced back.

Four minutes of added time at the end here.

Another well-worked attack from Parma is cut out as they make it into the Juve box.

Giovinco isn't coming back, as expected. Paolo De Ceglie is brought on.

Ninis from outside the box again, blocked by Storari! Gobbi on the follow-up! Pushed around the near post! Great double stop and Parma have a corner.

He's being helped off the pitch, which doesn't bode well for Juve's star signing. They do have a switch remaining.

Giovinco is caught late by Pelle and is getting treatment now.

Storari holds a driven cross in from the left by Gobbi.

Valdes with a low delivery now but the best he can force is a corner. Parma make their final switch with Graziano Pelle on for Rosi.

Ninis tries his luck from 25 and Storari can't hold it! Biabiany looks for the follow-up but it bounces off him for a goal kick.

Another one following that now: Vucinic, who has played fairly well but not been particularly sharp up top, is replaced by Alessandro Matri.

Now assistant coach Alessio will make a change. Lichtsteiner is replaced by Simone Padoin.

Valdes breaks through as Juve continue to stutter in possession and shakes off a side challenge before hashing his shot at goal just inside the box.

And now Belfodil can only loop a volley from a left-hand cross into the arms of Storari.

Corner comes to nothing before Marchisio earns a yellow for a cynical challenge of his own as the away side look to keep the pressure on.

Parma find space on the left and Biabiany crosses low for Belfodil! Barzagi gets a touch to make sure it goes wide!