It absolutely was their 30th successive home win in Serie A and stretched their lead within the summit to 10 points, putting the strain on Roma facing their journey to Inter on Sunday.
"We still must play Roma this year and it'll do us good to see the way they play," Allegri told Mediaset Premium. "It might be nice if Roma don't win, but what is important is we won tonight. Our destiny is our hands.
"Napoli can nonetheless be inside it, nevertheless the fact remains we should focus only on ourselves and realise our destiny is our hands.
"The lads did well. Empoli are, among the list of teams lower down through the table, one side who passes it over the most and that could be frustrating.
"We stepped up a gear immediately after the break, scored two goals and could have scored more."
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