England international Abraham slotted home his twelfth Serie A goal of the season from the spot to grab the points for Jose Mourinho's aspect after an motion-packed healthy on the Italian Riviera which had looked to be heading for stalemate.
Roma circulate as much as 6th on 44 points, six at the back of the Champions League locations thanks to a penalty which became given after an on-field VAR review and had relegation-threatened Spezia fuming.
It became given for Giulio Maggiore kicking Nicolo Zaniolo in the head as the Roma forward struck the bar with a header in the 2nd of two awesome stoppage-time goalmouth scrambles, as Spezia fought enamel and nail to preserve off the away facet after Kelvin Amian was despatched off at the stroke of 1/2-time.
"I still can't discover my words, I do not know what occurred these days," Abraham said to DAZN.
"The ball didn't want to head inner. We tried, even me, I turned into on the line and I nevertheless could not rating. But the maximum crucial thing is we got the purpose at the cease and the 3 factors."
Roma had 31 shots and struck the woodwork 4 instances on the Stadio Alberto Picco on what had appeared to be another frustrating nighttime for Mourinho's guys.
However Spezia, who got here out for their pre-match warm up in t-shirts with the message "forestall battle" written in the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag in assist of their teammate Viktor Kovalenko, live 4 factors above the relegation zone after Abraham's crushing winner.
A point behind Spezia are Cagliari, who continued their awesome new year's revival via triumphing 2-1 at Torino to climb out of the Serie A relegation quarter.
Walter Mazzarri's side came out on top in Turin way to moves in each half from Raoul Bellanova and Alessandro Deiola, which cancelled out a second goal in as many video games from Italy forward Andrea Belotti who had levelled the ratings 8 minutes after the spoil.
