Torino are back in Europe after 22 years and visit Belgians Club Brugge with Amauri and Fabio Quagliarella.
This Europa League tie kicks off at 18.00 UK time (17.00 GMT) and they are in Group B along with HJK and Copenhagen.
Torino are back in Europe after 22 years and visit Belgians Club Brugge with Amauri and Fabio Quagliarella.
This Europa League tie kicks off at 18.00 UK time (17.00 GMT) and they are in Group B along with HJK and Copenhagen.
It is the Granata’s first foray into a major UEFA tournament for over two decades, since they featured in the 2002 Intertoto Cup.
They were UEFA Cup Finalists in 1992 and earned their spot in the competition this season via the preliminary rounds.
In fact, Parma had been assigned the spot, but were stripped of it by the Lega Serie A due to late payments.
It is a debut in Europe for 66-year-old Coach Giampiero Ventura, who saw star players Ciro Immobile (Borussia Dortmund) and Alessio Cerci (Atletico Madrid) sold this summer.
They were replaced by tonight’s strike partnership Quagliarella and Amauri, who start together for the first time.
Ventura makes numerous changes to his XI, giving Belgian international goalkeeper Jean-Francois Gillet his first outing since the ban for match-fixing from his time at Bari expired.
Club Brugge have a poor record against Italian clubs, losing their last five meetings, including four in a row on home turf.
The hosts are without injured Tom De Sutter and Lior Refaelov.
Paulo Vitor Barreto and Salvatore Masiello are sidelined for the Granata.
Club Brugge: Ryan; Meunier, Duarte, Mechele, Bolingoli-Mbombo; Simons, Silva, Fernando; Vazquez, Gedoz; Sobota
Brugge bench: Dioudis, De Fauw, De Bock, Engels, Vormer, Storm, Oulare
Torino: Gillet; Molinaro, Jansson, Maksimovic; Silva, Darmian, Gazzi, Sanchez Mino, Benassi; Amauri, Quagliarella
Torino bench: Padelli, Bovo, Moretti, El Kaddouri, Nocerino, Larrondo, Martinez