A Moise Kean double and late Arkadiusz Milik goal on Federico Chiesa assist allowed Juventus to leapfrog Lazio into third place, registering a sixth consecutive Serie A victory, all with clean sheets.
This was a head-to-head between joint second and fourth, separated by only two points going into the final Serie A match of 2022. Both sides were missing numerous players, as the hosts had Alex Sandro suspended, Dusan Vlahovic, Mattia De Sciglio, Paul Pogba, Kaio Jorge, Mattia Perin and Samuel Iling-Junior out, with Angel Di Maria, Leandro Paredes and Federico Chiesa only ready for the bench. The Aquile missed Ciro Immobile, Mattia Zaccagni, Manuel Lazzari and Patric, so Luka Romero was promoted after scoring his debut goal midweek.
Moise Kean flashed an angled drive across the face of goal, then Ivan Provedel smothered a Nicolò Fagioli strike from the edge of the box.
Arkadiusz Milik’s curler flashed inches wide, although the offside flag was up, after a great control on the long ball. Pedro saw his long-range strike take a deflection to loop just over the bar and from the corner Nicolò Casale nodded off target.
The deadlock was broken on the stroke of half-time when Adrien Rabiot robbed Sergej Milinkovic-Savic in midfield and sent Kean running, Ivan Provedel came tearing outside his penalty area, so the Italy international placed a lob over him into the empty net with the inside of the boot.
Milinkovic-Savic’s strike was deflected by Danilo and Provedel parried a Milik low drive at the near post. Juve doubled their lead when Milik robbed Danilo Cataldi in midfield and Kostic’s angled drive stung Provedel’s gloves, but it was only pushed as far as Kean for a tap-in.
Luis Alberto came off the bench and immediately forced a save from Szczesny, as did Kean when threatening a hat-trick.
Pedro also tested Szczesny after turning Federico Gatti and Provedel used his legs to parry a Juan Cuadrado cross-shot at the near post.
The rout was sealed in the final minute when Federico Chiesa burst down the left and rolled across an assist on a silver platter that Milik just had to redirect from 10 yards.
Matias Vecino came closest to a consolation in stoppages, but it clipped the crossbar, then Szczesny palmed a Felipe Anderson scorcher out of the near top corner.
Juventus 3-0 Lazio
Kean 43, 54 (J), Milik 90 (J)