Serie A: Roma-Juventus 1-0, a great goal from Mancini decides

Roma and Juventus face off and in the end it is the Giallorossi who win after the second half thanks to Gianluca Mancini's goal.

The defender gives the three points to Jose Mourinho's team who erase Tuesday's bad defeat at Cremonese, hooking Milan in fourth place and enthusiastically projecting themselves into Thursday's match against Real Sociedad.

Juventus stops after five victories in a row and must remodulate their run-up with the weight of -15 in the standings to reach that goal which, as Allegri underlined, "would be worth three championships

Roma-Juve is a challenge with an ancient flavor that has often written the history of Serie A with a poisonous rivalry.

The last drop of poison has frozen, the one relating to Mourinho's disqualification after the dispute with the fourth official, Serra, in Cremona, accused of being from Turin and of having therefore wanted to penalize him precisely in view of the match against the black and whites.

The Federal Court of Appeal suspended the disqualification so the Portuguese is regularly on the bench to drag the Giallorossi Mourinho deploys the former Dybala as a center forward with Pellegrini recovering from the flu and Wijnaldum in support.

Starting bench for Abraham.

Compared to the defeat in Cremona, Matic and Karsdorp (preferred to Zalewski) are back in addition to Smalling back from disqualification.

Unavailable Solbakken.

On the other hand Allegri does not change the tandem of

attack Vlahovic-Di Maria, the latter preferred from the start to Chiesa.

Locatelli is back in control after the disqualification, Cuadrado confirmed on the right in place of the unavailable De Sciglio and an all-Brazilian defense with Danilo, Bremer and Alex Sandro.

The atmosphere at the Olimpico is evocative like the creography that accompanies the entry of the teams onto the pitch before the kick-off and a banner appears from the Tiber to greet Maurizio Costanzo ("Boni State boni, Ciao Maurizio").

The first half was bad and with very little emotion.

The first minutes of the game are studied even if it is Juventus who immediately attempt a lunge with Vlahovic after three minutes but in his conclusion Rui Patricio doesn't worry too much.

Roma keep the spaces well.

At 7'

Ankle problem for Mancini but the Giallorossi player remains on the pitch.

The rhythms are low and the game is struggling to take off, on both sides.

In the 16th minute Roma try to make themselves dangerous with Dybala but his conclusion is blocked by Rabiot.

The Giallorossi try to pick up the pace and in the 18th minute they surprise the Juve defense: Spinazzola has an open field and enters the box, but on his suggestion in the center Kostic arrives first.

In the 23rd minute we see Juve, Di Maria serves a ball on the edge that Vlahovic finds but Roma's defense closes well.

In the 27th minute Dybala sees, but his left-footed shot from the edge finds Szczesny ready to deflect.

Juve went very close to scoring in the 44th minute through Rabiot, but his shot was deflected off the post and then for a corner by Rui Patricio.

In the second half Allegri replaces Alex Sandro with Bonucci while Mourinho restarts with the initial 11.

after the low pace of the first half of the game, Juve tries to accelerate in search of the goal, increasing the pressure but it is in Rome that they take the lead in the 8th minute with Gianluca Mancini who delivers a powerful diagonal from the edge that beats Szczesny.

Dangerous Juventus with Cuadrado on a free kick in the 14th minute;

the colombian conclusion chips the post.

The Giallorossi lead has the power to finally liven up the match.

Di Maria and his companions are looking for the equalizer and the Giallorossi are looking for the counterattack in order to strike in search of the safety goal.

Mourinho shuffles the cards and in the 27th minute replaces Dybala with Abraham while Allegri responds by sending Pogba and Paredes onto the field.

Juve insisted and in the 33rd minute

becomes dangerous on Di Maria whose shot is deflected for a corner.

In the final madness Kean ch, who came on to replace Cuadrado, gets expelled after a few seconds for a reaction foul.

Juve besieges the Roma area which resists and brings home the three points.