He couldn’t keep out Bayern Munich as the Old Lady of Turin crashed out of the Champions League during the week, but Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon remains nigh-on unbeatable in Serie A. Juventus moved on to 70 points, six clear of second-placed Napoli going into their match with Genoa later in the day (1700 GMT).
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Striker Paulo Dybala returned from a calf injury for the champions, but Claudio Marchisio and Giorgio Chiellini missed out, while Torino started former Juve striker Ciro Immobile up front.
Pogba got the visitors off the mark just after the half hour with a free kick which he curled around the wall and into the near top corner.
Buffon made Serie A history after four minutes with the ball deep in Torino territory, before Marco Benassi headed over from 10 yards.
Having come so close to a monumental Champions League win over Bayern Munich during mid-week, Juventus face another tough test in their quest for league glory as they head to their nearest rivals Torino hoping to make it three Derby della Molle wins in a row.
Torino had lost lost 12 of their last 14 games with Juve, save for a 0-0 draw and a rare, 2-1 win in April 2015.
Pogba took over set-piece duties with Dybala off the field and he beat Padelli with a superb curling free-kick from 25 yards.
The hosts thought they had equalised after 58 minutes when scored from a Peres throughball, but the goal was wrongly disallowed for offside, with the half-time substitute Lopez level.
Gianluigi Buffon set a new clean sheet record of 973 minutes.
Juventus were leading 2-0 thanks to goals from Paul Pogba and Sami Khedira when Torino earned a penalty and Andrea Belotti stepped up to score.
Buffon had surpassed the legendary Dino Zoff’s 903-minute tally last week by taking his clean-sheet record to 926 minutes.
But Duvan Zapata scored his sixth goal of the campaign to give Stefano Colantuono’s men an early lead.
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Reja had received no assurances on his position following his club’s alarming slide, which was eventually halted by first-half goals from Alejandro Gomez and Alessandro Diamanti, before Ibrahima Mbaye and Daniele Gastaldello were both dismissed late on.
