Thanks to Gianluca Mancini’s header from a Lorenzo Pellegrini corner as Roma overcame Genoa, who was lacking some main players.
Mattia Destro shot straight at Pau Lopez after turning between two defenders, but Roma broke the deadlock when Gianluca Mancini rose to turn in a bullet header from a Lorenzo Pellegrini corner.
Pedro’s back-heel flick from a Rick Karsdorp assist bounced off the far post on 73 minutes, and Borja Mayoral bundled the rebound over the line, but the offside flag was up for the ex-Chelsea man.
In the final stages Roma kept on under pressure, a sequence of shots charged down, as Gianluca Scamacca sent a half-volley just wide and tried a back-heel flick on a free-kick.
Roma 1 – 0 Genoa
Goals: 1-0 Mancini 24
Bookings: Mancini; Masiello, Destro, Strootman, Criscito
Roma: Pau Lopez; Mancini, Cristante, Smalling; Karsdorp, Pellegrini, Diawara (Villar 60), Peres (Spinazzola 86); Pedro (Perez 74), El Shaarawy (Mkhitaryan 60); Mayoral (Fazio 86)
Genoa: Marchetti; Masiello, Radovanovic, Criscito; Ghiglione (Cassata 46), Strootman (Scamacca 76), Badelj, Zajc (Melegoni 78), Zappacosta; Pjaca (Shomurodov 46), Destro
