A 5 aim thriller was settled by a last-minute personal aim by debutant Cristiano Biraghi, who handed Bologna a 3-2 win at dwelling in opposition to Torino in on Friday night time.
Vincenzo Italiano welcomed a lot of his first-choice defenders again into the beginning line-up, together with Sam Beukema, whereas Paolo Vanoli handed a primary ever Serie A begin to Italy U21 star Cesare Casadei, who joined in a everlasting transfer from Chelsea in January.
Bologna thought they’d earned an opportunity to place themselves forward from the penalty spot following Benja Dominguez’s lay-off into the realm quarter-hour in, however a prolonged VAR examine ended with the penalty name being overturned.
The officers determined that Ndoye had stepped throughout and clipped Karol Linetty, slightly than Linetty clipping Ndoye, and so the scores remained at 0-0.
The Switzerland worldwide did brilliantly to ship Bologna 1-0 forward just some minutes later, although. Tommaso Pobega gained possession and fed his teammate, who took a heavy contact in the direction of the byline, earlier than squeezing previous Vanja Milinkovic-Savic from an inconceivable angle.
Torino had a pair of probabilities on the 25 minute mark; first by way of Che Adams, who gained a nook after an honest save from Lukasz Skorpuski, and one other from Saul Coco from the ensuing set-piece.
The Granata centre-back managed to place it extensive from a yard or two out with an empty web in entrance of him, however the whistle ultimately went for a foul in opposition to Torino, so it could not have stood even when it had been on track.
Torino fluffed their largest probability of the primary half 10 minutes earlier than the interval. Che Adams did fantastically to beat Jhon Lucumi and maintain the ball beneath his management earlier than racing into the realm, successfully two-on-one in opposition to Skorupski, however inexplicably determined to sq. it to Yann Karamoh, regardless of being at a greater angle himself.
Karamoh slipped within the space, and the ball rolled behind him.
Thankfully for Torino, they had been degree with their subsequent attacking transfer. This time it was Guillermo Maripan who broke into the realm, and located Vlasic within the center through an unlucky contact from Emil Holm, which allowed the Croatian to bury previous Skorpuski along with his first contact.
Sebastian Walukiweicz was pressured off simply over 5 minutes into the second half, limping off with what seemed like a possible hamstring harm earlier than being changed by Marcus Holmgren Pedersen.
Bologna once more thought they need to have had a penalty on the hour mark when Santiago Castro went down within the space, however replays confirmed that it was a really comparable state of affairs to the primary penalty incident, because the Argentine was adjudged to have caught his defender, slightly than the opposite manner round.
Second-half substitute Eljif Elmas, who had solely simply come on a couple of minutes earlier, put the guests forward with two items of sensible particular person ability. He managed to nutmeg Beukema within the space earlier than scooping the ball up and over Skorupski along with his following contact for 2-1.
Bologna lastly gained a real penalty simply shy of the seventieth minute when Casadei tried to clear the ball, however didn’t see Pobega behind him, and by chance whacked the previous Milan midfielder as an alternative.
Ndoye took the ball away from Castro and caught his penalty proper into the facet netting. It wanted to be an ideal spot kick to beat Milinkovic-Savic, who had dived the precise manner and was near getting his fingertips to it.
Although Ndoye had probabilities to safe his hat-trick, and Che Adams got here near placing Torino 3-2 up, it could be an personal aim from debutant Cristiano Biraghi who settled the scores within the final minute of standard time.
Castro tried to feed Giovanni Fabbian into the realm, however Biraghi tried to intervene and ended up slotting the ball into the underside nook whereas presumably making an attempt to place it the opposite facet of the put up for a nook.
Ndoye 20’, 70’ (B), Vlasic 37’ (T), Elmas 65’ (T), Biraghi (og) 90’ (B).
