Daniele De Rossi has transformed Roma TEN THINGS we learned in Serie A
It was another eventful round of fixtures in Serie A this weekend, with league leaders Inter Milan securing a 2-1 win against Udinese and Juventus beating Fiorentina 1-0.
Meanwhile, at the bottom of the table, the threat of relegation looms large for Salernitana following their 2-2 draw with fellow strugglers Sassuolo.
Mail Sport's ALVISE CAGNAZZO talks us through 10 things we learned from the Italian top flight this weekend.
1 - SZCZESNY IS JUVE'S SAINT
If Juventus can continue to consolidate third place in Serie A, the credit will go mainly to Wojciech Szczesny. The Polish goalkeeper's save from Nico Gonzalez's poisonous shot for Fiorentina was worth an entire championship all by itself and showed how Juventus must once again say thank you to their goalkeeper - despite having dominated the match for around 70 minutes.
The Juventus No 1 has often been criticised but his flight into the top corner effectively sealed the 1-0 win and kept the six-point gap from AC Milan, two points ahead of Bologna who are stuck in fourth place.
He keeps the defence's concentration high, much more than their captain Danilo, by demanding focus and shouting at every team-mate who passes near him.
The best goalkeepers are the decisive ones - even if they make just one save in 90 minutes - and 'Tek' Szczesny managed to make the fans who flocked to the Allianz Stadium rejoice after spending most of the match without making a save.
The second intervention on Maxime Lopez in the 84th minute was prodigious and lit a warning light in the mechanisms of a defense that suffered too much in the final minutes of matches.
Sixty-two points in 31 games are few for a team like Juventus and at least 10 points came from the miraculous interventions of Arsene
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