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Torino continues its fairy tale. Allready deep into season and steaming towards the end Torino maintains its speed and is still fighting for a title. But the question is can they keep up with the pressure?
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Let us pick up from where we finished last time, with round 18 and DERBY DELLA MOLE!
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Round 18
Juventus 0-0 Torino
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Great performance from Torino players in local derby with leading Serie A team!! Horn managed to save a penalty on his debut. Juventus were dominating the game with 21 shots and 60% possesion, while we managed to shot only 4 times towards goal. Nevertheless our defence managed to hold the line and we stole one point from our neighbours.
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And we were not the only one celebrating this point, there were many fans behind us as well.
Round 19
Torino 1-1 Palermo
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Equal performance from both teams. We were not good enough for 3 points so Palermo will leave Torino with 1 point and happy face.
Round 20
Torino 2-2 Atalanta
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Third draw in a row. Young 17 years old central back Benedetti started from first minute in light of missing Glik & Moretti. However his poor performance resulted in Atalanta`s lead by one goal on half time. We were saved from first defeat in 87` minute by left back Danilo Avelar.
Round 21
Bologna 1-2 Torino
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Finally a victory after 3 draws in a row. Poor first half from Torino, but after much yelling during half time a new, reborn Torino came on the pitch and with two great goals from young Belotti Torino secured 3 points and 21st game in row without defeat. Unlucky, due to damaged heel Bruno Peres will miss next game against Fiorentina.
Round 22
Torino 6-1 Fiorentina
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Unbelivable! Fantastic victory against very poor Fiorentina this season. Hat-trick from Belotti, two goals from veteran Quagliarella and one goal and great performance from Zappacosta who more than decently replaced missing Peres.
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This victory would´t be possible without our fantastic fans.
Round 23
Udinese 0-5 Torino
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Artillery firing all over Stadio Friuli. FanFucki*gTastic performance from Belotti who managed to score 5 goals for great 10.0 rating in 85` minutes of playing. This game also marked debut`s of Taunzebe & Rashford.
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Round 24
Torino 2-2 Genoa
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Atlhough we outshoot Genoa 24 shoots against 10 shoots we were unable to score more than 2 goals and adding another draw to our collection of draws.
Round 25
Lazio 1-1 Torino
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Late equalizer from joker Rashford who just replaced Belotti 6 minutes earlier. Nevertheless we can be happy with performance from Torino players and also with a draw, especially since we were playing against 2nd team in Serie A. With this draw we also mark our 25th undefeated game in a row.
Round 26
Torino 1-0 Verona
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Verona played very good defense, closing our paths towards their goal. Nevertheless we managed to score only goal in 68 minutes and secure 3 points.
We now extended our unbeatable record on 26 matches!
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Undefeated for 26 matches in a row! What a fantastic result!
Round 27
A.C. Milan 3-0 Torino
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The game we were all afraid of, but we all knew would come. We were just hoping it would come later rather than sooner. Milanese players were controling the game from first minute and deserved to win.
Round 28
Carpi 1-3 Torino
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Back on track with great victory over Carpi. Barba and Lazzar scored their first goal since joining Torino. Well played.
Round 29
Torino 3-0 Empoli
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Although Empoli played with 10 player from 4` minute onwards following Tonelli red card we were unable to find a way in goal. Empoli played very well defensive. But in 2nd half we steped up and scored 3 goals. Belotti, Rashford and Zappacosta made sure no surprise would occur on Olimpico.
Round 30
Frosinone 0-3 Torino
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Allready 17th victory this season brought us 5 points away from 1st position. Great victory over Frosinone.
Round 31
Torino 1-1 Sassuolo
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Although Sassuolo were completely dominating possesion, we were managed to shot 12 time against Sassuolo, exactly the same number of shot was fired towards Horn. However we were trailing by one goal since 7´minute and Antei nice goal. Nevertheless we never back down as we did not today and joker Obi managed to score late equalizer in 92nd minute.
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Italian Cup Quarter Finals
Torino 2-0 Napoli
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We slightly changed our formation for this game, while almost all players who played were from substitutions or bench, except from Horn.
First eleven looked like: Horn - Maicon, Tuanzebe, Bovo, Moretti - Zuculini, Acquah - Zappacosta, Prcic, Obi - Martinez (Segre 85`).
We played very defensively, but nevertheless managed to score 2 goals. However Zuculini was sent off in 76˙minute following second yellow card. Our only striker Martinez was repleaced by young 18 years olf defensive midfielder Jacopo Segre in 85` minute.
Italian Cup Semi Final Leg 1
Inter 0-0 Torino
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We were better team, but we were unable to score a goal. Although we were in semi finals, we decided to rest some players as we are still rolling high in Serie A and would like to continue.
First eleven looked like: Horn - Avelar, Barba, Glik(Tuanzebe 80´), Peruzzi - Obi, Benassi, Basseli(Prcic 58´), Peres(Zappacosta 67´) - Rashford, Belotti
Italian Cup Semi Final Leg 2
Torino 0-0 Inter
4-1
(Penalty shootout)
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Unlike from first game we played this game in our standard first team line up. Although we were not dominating team, neither were Inter. A draw seemed as a fair solution and we went into penalty shoot out. During penalties, Timo Horn once more proved he was great signing when he managed to save two penalties from Ljajic and Ranocchia securing us a spot in finals.
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Let us take a look on how things are standing.
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Belotti emerged as our striking force with 20 goals so far, surpassing veteran
Quagliarella who follows closely 2nd with 19 goals! Our 3rd best score is
Peres with 5 goals so far.
Bruno Peres continues to to show its quality as he is our and Serie A leading assistant with 12 assists.
Laazar is our second best assistant with 9 on his account, followed by
Belotti with 8,
Quagliarella with 7 and
Baselli with 6 assists!
Bruno Peres is still our best rated player, with average rating of 7,75; followed closely by
Quagliarela with 7,62.
Key Player:
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Bruno Peres emerged as our leading player so far this season.