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One last corto muso special in 2023 for everybody to enjoy. Coming into the final game of 2023, you really could have loaded up the world-famous Spiderman meme and it would have been totally appropriate for how Jose Mourinho and Max Allegri like to play. To no one?s surprise, as Juventus took the lead early in the second half, the grinding out of a 1-0 scoreline began.
?Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the corto muso-est team of them all"?
On this night, it was the team that is, once again, putting league leaders Inter under some serious heat. Juventus were able to grind out another 1-0 win much to the delight of their manager, making Rabiot?s goal stand tall and moving within two points of Inter at the top of the Serie A table following their draw at Genoa 24 hours earlier. The goal was, in a way, a flip of the script from the last couple of weeks when Juve allowed goals right at the start of the second half and either couldn?t recover or needed some magic to make things happen. Instead of allowing it, Juve got the early second-half goal and then Roma couldn?t make much of anything really happen to tie things up. The end result was not just a win over a rival and not just finally taking advantage of a rare slip up from Inter, but it also means that Juve head into the new year looking at these kinds of situations in the Serie A table:

Juve are now seven points clear of Milan in third.
Juve are now 10 po...