Luciano Spalletti believes his Juventus team earned a "double victory" against Roma after not only beating them on Saturday, but also learning from their aggressive approach. 

Spalletti watched on as his team emerged 2-1 victors at Allianz Stadium thanks to goals in either half from Francisco Conceicao and Lois Openda.

Juve are now fifth in Serie A, a point behind Roma, who did threaten a nervy finish in Turin when Tommaso Baldanzi was the quickest to react to Evan Ferguson's spilled shot in the 75th minute, but the hosts were able to hold on.

Indeed, Juve have now won six of their last seven matches in all competitions, after only winning five of their first 16 matches this season, excluding the Club World Cup (D8 L3).

However, despite being thrilled with the result in their penultimate game of 2025, Spalletti insisted that he learned more from Gian Piero Gasperini's team in the encounter. 

"I feel like biting you when you ask me things like that," Spalletti told the interviewer with a laugh. "What does that mean, no big games? They are all difficult now.

"Winning, and learning from those teams whom you beat, represent a double victory, because they also give you self-belief and the knowledge you can fight it out with anyone.

"We pushed to the very end, and even when conceding that late goal, the team wanted more. Now we will keep working and hopefully try to claw back some more lost ground."

Juve also won a match against a team that started the matchday in the top four, after having won only one of their previous seven matches against these sides (D3 L3). 

Conceicao got them on their way a minute before half-time before Openda became the first Belgian player to score for Juve against Roma in Serie A with 20 minutes remaining.

Spalletti's team were worthy of their win, generating an expected goals (xG) total of 2.33 from their 13 shots, compared to Roma's 1.53 from their 15 attempts. 

"Roma are a side who will keep churning and churning, whereas we are not like that, we have moments where we drop out of the game," Spalletti added.

"We lose the ball cheaply. They switch from side to side, so if we don't manage to funnel them in one direction, we use up a lot of energy chasing them down.

"Even if they weren't all that dangerous, their tempo, consistency, solidity, all that caused us problems in the first half.

"We also didn't make the most of the counter-attacks that opened up. Their constant pressure wears you down, and you don't have the energy needed to go on the counter.

"Gasperini's teams create these mini-prisons that you feel like you have to break out of, there's always someone on your back."