Aleksey Miranchuk’s cheeky end into the highest nook gave Torino their first Serie A win away to Fiorentina for over 45 years, however the Viola had been once more too wasteful in assault.
These groups went into the sport with an equivalent Serie A report and can face off once more within the Coppa Italia quarter-final on February 1. Lorenzo Venuti changed suspended Dodo, with Gaetano Castrovilli, Arthur Cabral, Lucas Martinez Quarta and Riccardo Sottil injured. Toro missed Sasa Lukic, Perr Schuurs, Valentin Lazaro, Ola Aina and Pietro Pellegri, so gave Coppa Italia hero Michel Adopo his first begin.
The Granata’s final Serie A victory on the Stadio Franchi was a 1-0 end in October 1976, adopted by 14 attracts and 19 defeats right here.
Demba Seck had the ball within the web on 12 minutes, however had began his run slightly early and was caught offside.
Jonathan Ikone had a shot charged down, however Seck once more threatened when he sprung the offside lure to smash a end in opposition to the crossbar from a difficult angle.
Pietro Terracciano acquired right down to get one arm to a Wilfried Singo daisy-cutter that went by means of Igor’s legs and Nikola Vlasic wasn’t prepared on the rebound.
Vanja Milinkovic-Savic additionally made a decisive save when Christian Kouame acquired in entrance of his marker to satisfy Cristiano Biraghi’s help on the close to publish.
Toro had the higher of the primary half and took a deserved lead when Sofyan Amrabat gave it away cheaply in midfield and Aleksey Miranchuk picked his spot from the sting of the field, scooping it into the far prime nook.
Samuele Ricci fired straight at Terracciano moments later after one other misplaced cross, whereas Giacomo Bonaventura’s strike was fingertipped over.
Jonathan Ikone’s flicked header from a Lorenzo Venuti cross was inches previous each the far publish and the pinnacle of his teammate Nico Gonzalez, however Venuti virtually cleared off the road from substitute Antonio Sanabria after some chaotic defending.
Luka Jovic turned over from a promising place and it become a siege in stoppages. First Milinkovic-Savic rushed out to shut down Kouame, with David Zima making a decisive sort out on Jovic for the rebound, then Milinkovic-Savic used his outstretched foot to disclaim Antonin Barak.
Fiorentina 0-1 Torino
Miranchuk 33 (T)
