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Mohamed Salah had opened the scoring for the Giallorossi, before strikes either side of half-time from Panagiotis Tachtsidis and Leonardo Pavoletti briefly gave the Rossoblu the advantage.
Here are 10 statistics from the match:
1. In total there were 34 shots in the game – with Roma responsible for 20 of them.
2. Roma dominated possession throughout the contest – finishing with 62.6% of the ball over the course of the 90 minutes.
3. While the Giallorossi saw a lot of the ball, they were also robust without it – winning 88.9% of their tackles.
4. Genoa were forced to defend for large spells of the game – in the end they were forced into 28 clearances. Roma made 15, many of them in the closing stages.
5. Stephan El Shaarawy’s goal came three minutes from time. The forward had six shots during the match – the goal being his third (and final) shot on target of the contest.
6. In his first start for almost 16 months, Kevin Strootman completed 59 passes, made eight recoveries, created two chances and had two blocked shots over the 90 minutes.
7. Genoa goalkeeper Eugenio Lamanna made five saves during the contest – whereas Roma ‘keeper Wojciech Szczesny was called upon to make three, one of those being a vital late one-on-one stop from Diego Capel to secure the three points.
8. By full-time Roma had completed significantly more passes than their opponents – 589 to 348.
9. Shot accuracy was a key difference between the two teams – the visitors put 50% of their attempts on target, whereas the hosts managed just 36.4%.
10. Along with his goal, Francesco Totti made 21 passes and even delivered three recoveries in his 31-minute cameo.
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