Juve in comfort zone
Juventus will head into the international break on a high and with a 14-point lead on closest challengers Roma, who ended a five-game winless run in Italy's Serie A with a 1-0 victory at Cesena on Sunday.
Carlos Tevez took his Serie A goals tally to 16 as Juventus maintained their 14-point lead on Roma thanks to a hard-fought 1-0 win over Genoa.
Genoa travelled to Turin with faint hopes of taking a share of the spoils from the league leaders having handed Juve their only defeat of the season last October.
However Genoa goalkeeper Mattia Perin could do little to stop Tevez's 25th minute strike from inside the area and despite stand-in keeper Eugenio Lamanna later stopping Tevez's spot-kick, the hosts held on to record their 20th win of the campaign.
Tevez now leads fellow Argentinian Mauro Icardi of Inter Milan and AC Milan's French winger Jeremy Menez -- both of whom have 15 goals -- in the race for Serie A's capocannoniere (top scorer) award.
While Juve have one hand on the title, Roma were celebrating ending a five-game winless run with a cagey 1-0 victory over struggling Cesena.
It ended a remarkably poor series of results for Garcia's former title challengers, who saw Daniele De Rossi pounce on a cross early in the second half.
Roma's third win in 12 successive games mainly served to keep city rivals Lazio at bay, but for how long remains to be seen.
Stefano Pioli's men were impervious throughout a 2-0 home win over Verona, with Brazilian sensation Felipe Anderson breaking the deadlock on four minutes after rising to head Dusan Basta's powerful cross past Francesco Benussi.
A well-struck free kick from Samp striker Eder secured a 1-0 home win over Inter Milan to move the Genoa side up to fourth.
RESULTS
Empoli 3 (Saponara 46, 60, Mchedlidze 60) Sassuolo 1 (Rugani 49-og)
Juventus 1 (Tevez 25) Genoa 0
Cesena 0 Roma 1 (De Rossi 41)
Lazio 2 (Anderson 4, Candreva 45+2) Verona 0
Napoli 1 (Zapata 89) Atalanta 1 (Pinilla 72)
Parma 0 Torino 2 (Lopez 18, Basha 73)
Sampdoria 1 (Eder 65) Inter 0
Udinese 2 (Wague 15, Kone 62) Fiorentina 2 (Gomez 50, 53)
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