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MILAN, ITALY – NOVEMBER 22: Lautaro Martínez of Inter Milan scores the fourth goal for his sides past Salvatore Sirigu of Torino during the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and Torino FC at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on 22 November 2020 in Milan, Italy. Italy’s sports stadiums remain under strict restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, as the government’s social distancing laws prohibit fans within venues, causing games to be played behind closed doors. (Photo by Valerio Pennicino / Getty Images)
There are data that more than others explain the limitations of some teams and for Turin it is the case of the numbers in terms of the comebacks suffered. A habit that has become a vice for the Granada team in the recent past, which in 2020 registered a monstrous figure of 13 comebacks suffered between Serie A and the Italian Cup. Impossible, given the frequency mentioned above, to imagine that it could be a coincidence. At this point a question spontaneously arises: what is at the base of Torino’s Achilles heel?
In 2020 – Numbers in hand, the slow but inexorable psychological decline of Turin coincided with the beginning of the collapse of the Mazzarri project: from that 2-1 against Sassuolo (with the grenades that had gone 0-1 thanks to an own goal door) di Locatelli) of January 18. Then he suffered an escalation of comebacks: from the Italian Cup against Milan (on January 28, from 1-2 to 4-2), to the six comebacks suffered during Longo’s next management (against Sampdoria, Parma, Lazio, Inter, Spal and Roma). All matches that had seen Torino take the lead only to be recovered, and often reversed, throwing a total of 19 potential points from advantageous situations (plus one round pass in the Italian Cup) in eight games.
GIAMPAOLO – A hemorrhage that Torino could not stop even with the arrival on the bench of Marco Giampaolo, who since his arrival in Granada has registered five comebacks suffered and the beauty of 14 points lost due to advantage situations in eight Serie A games: the worst figure of the five major European leagues in the 2020/2021 season. The sensation, at this point, is that the “slime” of which Giampaolo spoke a few weeks ago is still in the heads of his players, who barely conceded goals, they disunited melting like snow in the sun. A problem that is not easy to solve and that inevitably worries fans and technical staff: “If we, the technical staff, were not stable in mind – said Conti, Giampaolo’s substitute, in the Inter-Torino post-match – I would be here to go to the nursing home“. It will be up to the squad and the players to do an examination of conscience to finally try to get out of this ordeal. And in this sense, probably, the many close encounters that await Torino will help to quickly forget what happened yesterday at San Siro.
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