Juventus coach Antonio Conte lifted into the air by the players, in Turin, yesterday.

Juventus celebrated their third consecutive Serie A title triumph with a narrow 1-0 win over Atalanta yesterday.

Simone Padoin scored the only goal of the game in the 72nd minute as Juve clinched their 31st victory of the season – a record in Italy’s top flight.

The Turin club had sealed their 30th scudetto without kicking a ball on Sunday when Roma lost4-1 against Catania.

The unofficial celebrations took place 24 hours earlier when Juve players staged an impromptu party in the team’s hotel that lasted into the early hours of the morning.

But there were few signs of a hangover as Juve started the match with plenty of energy.

Sebastian Giovinco’s bullet strike from 30 yards went just wide of the far post.

Juve almost went in front in the 26th minute when Daniel Osvaldo’s header from Stephan Lichtsteiner’s cross forced a good save from Atalanta goalkeeper Andrea Consigli.

At the other end, Daniele Baselli was first to test Juve’s Marco Storari with a hard drive which the goalkeeper saved.

Storari was in the line-up with coach Antonio Conte electing to rest first-choice goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.

That was one of several changes which might have given Atalanta hope, but they passed up a fine chance to take the lead before half-time when German Denis was unable to provide the finishing touch to Maxi Moralez’s dangerous cross.

Juve had the first chance of the second half when Osvaldo fed substitute Fabio Quagliarella in the box and his right-footed effort went wide.

The home side looked more dangerous from then on and finally broke the deadlock when Pogba set up Padoin and the Italian midfielder hit a right-footed shot from the centre of the area past Consigli.

Juve, who have now won all of their 18 games at home, held on to continue their bid to break the 100-point barrier in Serie A.

They have 96 points with two games remaining.

Earlier, Lazio midfielder Stefano Mauri struck a last-gasp equaliser to hand his team a 3-3 draw against Verona in Rome.

Verona looked to have secured all three points when substitute Romulo gave them a 3-2 lead with seven minutes remaining. But Lazio, who had Senad Lulic sent off for a straight red soon after, drew level when Mauri tapped in his own missed penalty.

Keita had scored the first goal of the game for Lazio on the half-hour mark but Verona striker Marquinho equalised seven minutes later.

Lulic put the home side back in front after one hour of play only for Juan Manuel Iturbe to make it 2-2 nine minutes later.

The outcome at the Stadio Olimpico has left both sides in the top half of the standings, level on 53 points.

They are two points adrift of Torino, who are sixth and hold the last Europa League qualifying spot with two games remaining.

Verona were leading 3-2 but in stoppage time the referee pointed to the spot after Michelangelo Albertazzi brought down substitute Miroslav Klose in the area, with Albertazzi also seeing red.

Although Rafael guessed correctly the direction of Mauri’s spot-kick, he spilled the ball and Mauri pounced to score the equaliser.

Serie A

Lazio 3
Keita 30; Lulic 60; Mauri 90+2;
Verona 3
Marquinho 37; Iturbe 69; Romulo 83;

HT: 1-1. Att: 7,000.
Red cards: Lulic (L) 86; Albertazzi (V) 90.
Missed penalty: Mauri (L) 90+2.

Juventus 1
Padoin 72;
Atalanta 0

HT: 0-0. Att: 38,892.

Standings

Playing today
Fiorentina vs Sassuolo - 19.00
Napoli vs Cagliari - 21.00

Next fixtures
Saturday: 18.00 Verona vs Udinese; 20.45 Inter vs Lazio.
Sunday: 12.30 Atalanta vs Milan. 15.00 Bologna vs Catania; Cagliari vs Chievo; Livorno vs Fiorentina; Sampdoria vs Napoli; Sassuolo vs Genoa; Torino vs Parma. 20.45 Roma vs Juventus.