This Saturday Juventus take on Roma in Matchday Three of the Serie A calendar at Allianz Stadium (18:30 CEST). Before the game, Juventus.com looks at the Top 5 goals scored in this fixture and their importance on the relative match.
MICHEL PLATINI: JUVENTUS 2-2 ROMA 1983/84
Juventus and Roma locked horns on Matchday 11 of the 1983/84 season and despite falling behind to a Bruno Conti goal in the second half, the Bianconeri conjured up some magic from their own magician, Michel Platini 10 minutes later. Placing the ball down outside the box for a free-kick, Le Roi will bend the ball over the Giallorossi wall and into the bottom left-hand corner, leaving Roma goalie, Franco Tancredi with no chance.
Juve would go in front in the match just five minutes later through Domenico Penzo, only to be pegged back by Roberto Pruzzo right at the death to end the match 2-2. However, the Bianconeri would eventually go on to be crowned champions of the 1983/84 season, finishing two points above Roma, with another draw – this time 0-0 proving to be a second vital result of the season against the capital side.
MARCELO ZALAYETA: JUVENTUS 2-0 ROMA 2004/05
A cold, wet and windy night at the Stadio delle Alpi, with AS Roma as the visitors for Friday night Serie A football. The match was a highly anticipated affair, after manager, Fabio Capello had made the move from Rome to Turin in the summer take the reins of the Bianconeri. Juventus went in a goal to the good at half-time, courtesy of captain, Alessandro Del Piero hitting a low daisy-cutter into the back of the net from Mauro Camoranesi’s lay-off.
On 72 minutes, Del Piero was substituted for forward, Marcelo Zalayeta and it would prove to be an instrumental swap. Dribbling past halfway, the Uruguayan forward pinged a ball up to Zlatan Ibrahimovic before continuing his run forward, his Swedish strike partner held-up the ball up well before releasing into the path of Zalayeta who took a key touch into the Roma box before getting past his defender and finishing beyond Carlo Zotti to seal the game for the Bianconeri.
ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO: JUVENTUS 1-0 ROMA 2007/08
A big night in Turin, as the Bianconeri faced one of their all-time classic opponents, in their first season back in Serie A. A battling first half in Turin looks set to end goalless, until a late run from Pavel Nedved sees the Czech midfielder expertly cut inside before being fouled by Phillipe Mexes.
The ball is well in “Zona Del Piero” territory and it’s the last thing the Giallorossi want to face before the half-time whistle sounds. Instead the referee blows his whistle for the set-piece to be taken and right on command Del Piero lashes the ball into the postage stamp of the goal, turning out to be the match-winner that seals an all-important result for Juventus!
LEONARDO BONUCCI: JUVENTUS 3-2 ROMA 2014/15
Define “topsy-turvey”: then look no further than 2014/15’s Juve-Roma! An end-to-end affair with a dramatic finish. The drama began with a Carlos Tevez penalty converted on 27 minutes, but the Bianconeri were pegged back just five minutes later with Francesco Totti scoring a spot-kick up the other end. Juan Iturbe thought that he had given the Romans the lead going into half-time but another Tevez penalty deep into stoppages had Juventus and Roma go in level at the break at 2-2.
The second half proved to be a much cagier affair with both sides looking to draw an early first blood in the season in the battle for the Scudetto. Into the final five minutes of the game, a Tevez free-kick out on the right-hand side was swung into the Roma box before bouncing out to Leonardo Bonucci, with the defender hitting the ball first-time on the volley to score a dramatic late match-winner!
GONZALO HIGUAIN: JUVENTUS 1-0 ROMA 2016/17
Another Juve-Roma win that would arguably go on to have bigger repercussions later on in the season, with the Bianconeri clinching this campaign’s Scudetto by four points over Roma, with 91 to the Giallorossi’s 87. The game would be Juventus’ festive fixture, with the game being played on the 17th December 2016.
A tighter affair than previous key encounters between the two sides, the match’s key moment arrived after just 14 minutes: Sami Khedira played the ball into Gonzalo Higuain’s feet, the Argentine would strongly hold off Daniele De Rossi’s challenge, take the ball forward, slalom past Kostas Manolas, and then fire a rocket into the back of the Roma net to score one of Juve’s Goals of the Season and more crucially the game’s decider!