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Roma's Gervinho celebrates after scoring against Juventus
Roma's Gervinho celebrates after scoring against Juventus during the Coppa Italia quarter-final. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images
Roma's Gervinho celebrates after scoring against Juventus during the Coppa Italia quarter-final. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images

Gervinho's goal enough to give Roma victory over Juventus

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Gervinho scored a late winner as Roma beat the Serie A leaders, Juventus, 1-0 in the Coppa Italia quarter-finals on Tuesday night in the Stadio Olimpico.

The Ivory Coast international acrobatically finished Kevin Strootman's cross after a well-worked move with Miralem Pjanic.

It was a match between the top two sides in the league. Roma lost 3-0 in the league to Juventus earlier this month.

Roma started well and had two good opportunities inside the opening 11 minutes but first the new signing Radja Nainggolan and then Alessandro Florenzi fired wide.

Juventus players and staff called furiously for a red card for Mehdi Benatia when he dragged down Sebastian Giovinco as the forward was trying to race on to Andrea Pirlo's long ball. However, Benatia escaped with a booking.

Roma face either Napoli or Lazio in the two-legged semi-final.

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