Rome (AFP)

Juventus took advantage of AS Rome's gifts to win Sunday at the Olympic Stadium (2-1) and offer themselves the title of winter champion, all the more honorary since Inter Milan is only 'at two lengths.

Two points apart in the middle of the championship, Serie A remains uncertain and the Turinese have no guarantee as to the conquest of a ninth consecutive title, they who also pursue an even greater objective with the Champions League.

To target Europe and even for a new scudetto, they will have to show a little more than what they proposed on Sunday and be aware that they will not always have rivals as generous as Roma.

Because in ten minutes, the giallorossi gave two huge gifts to Juventus, who led 2-0 without having done anything, or almost.

From the third minute, Mancini conceded an unnecessary free kick by mowing Ronaldo. The set kick was impeccably drawn by Dybala and taken up at the far post by Demiral, the young Turkish defender who pushed on the bench De Ligt and his transfer to 75 million euros.

Six minutes later, it was the Pau Lopez-Veretout duo who precipitated the Roman collapse with a dangerous pass from the Spanish goalkeeper and a smashed control of the Frenchman pressed by Dybala, then mowed in the surface.

Ronaldo transformed the penalty spot (2-0, 10th), scoring his ninth goal in six Serie A matches since the start of December, and the match already had more of the flavor than when it kicked off .

But the game was balanced, also marked by two apparently serious injuries, Demiral Juventus side and Zaniolo for Roma.

- The Torino goes back up -

In the 65th minute, Dzeko hit the post and the Romans understood that they could believe it. On the following action, Alex Sandro was sanctioned with a penalty for a hand in his area, transformed by Perotti (2-1, 69th).

At that time, there was therefore still a match, because Roma had not been discouraged, but especially because Juve had authorized it, by playing trotting.

While the Romans were pushing for a point, Maurizio Sarri's men still found a way to waste a few opportunities, notably by putting Higuain offside on a three against a yet not very complicated to conclude.

But they held and therefore complete the first leg with a small advantage over Inter, held in check 1-1 on Saturday by Atalanta Bergamo, with impressive ardor.

After two defeats in a row against the two clubs from Turin, Roma (5th) sees for its part this same Atalanta steal 4th place, qualifying for the Champions League.

In the other matches scheduled for Sunday, the Torino moved closer to the European zone by beating Bologna 1-0. The Turin club is 7th.

Victorious respectively from Spal (1-0) and Brescia (5-1), Fiorentina and Sampdoria Genoa have given themselves some air. The Florentine club is 14th while the Genoese are 16th.

Genoa (18th), on the other hand, are at their worst after their 2-1 defeat on the field of Hellas Verona at the end of a match started with a quarter of an hour late, time to draw new lines of repair area . The first were not straight.

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