Torino now find themselves at the top of the Serie A table after a hectic 3-2 victory away against Hellas Verona, playing more than 70 minutes against 10 men after Pawel Dawidowicz’s first-half dismissal.
Goals from three different Granata strikers, Antonio Sanabria, Duvan Zapata and Che Adams bettered Verona’s efforts from Grigoris Kastanos and Daniel Mosquera.
Sanabria, back in the Torino starting line-up in place of Scotland international Adams, opened the scoring just before the 10 minute mark.
A tidy one-touch flick from striker partner Duvan Zapata sent him through one-on-one in the area, and the Paraguayan had no issues converting past Lorenzo Montipo.
Verona levelled from a corner with their first attacking move directly after the restart. Darko Lazovic played a low pass across the floor to Kastanos on the edge of the area, who fired a powerful effort into the top corner with the help of a deflection off Guillermo Maripan.
The hosts were reduced to 10-men after just 20 minutes of action, when Dawidowicz was given his marching orders for an elbow on goalscorer Sanabria following a Torino corner.
Sanabria dusted himself off to take the resulting spot-kick only to hit the post. He put the ball in the back of the net on the follow-up, but the goal could not stand as there was no touch from any other player before Sanabria buried the rebound.
The Granata restored their lead just after the half-hour mark, though. Valentino Lazzaro’s perfectly-placed cross in from the right flank was met with a powerful Zapata header for 2-1. The last eight of the Colombian’s Serie A goals have come off his head.
Adams came on to replace Sanabria with a quarter of the game remaining and it took him little over 10 minutes to grab the second goal of his Serie A career.
The Scotland international capitalised on a terrible back-pass from Diego Coppola, but he had plenty of work left to do before dispatching past Montipo from the edge of the area.
Verona got themselves a consolation goal through Mosquera with around 30 seconds of injur time remaining. Reda Belahyane won the ball back in the torino area before squaring to his teammate on the edge of the area.
Torino now lead the Serie A table with 11 points from their first five matches, and are guaranteed to finish the weekend in the top four regardless of results elsewhere over the rest of the weekend.
Full time in Serie A: Verona 2-3 Torino
Sanabria (T) 10′, Kastanos (V) 12′, Zapata (T) 33′, Adams (T) 79′, Mosquera (V) 90+3′.
Player statistic
| 10' |  |
Antonio Sanabria | ||
| Grigoris Kastanos | |
12' | ||
| Diego Coppola |  |
18' | ||
| Pawel Dawidowicz |  |
21' | ||
| 22' |  |
Antonio Sanabria | ||
| 33' | |
Duván Zapata (Assist: Valentino Lazaro) |
| Grigoris Kastanos | |
58' | ||
| 79' | |
Ché Adams | ||
| Daniel Mosquera (Assist: Reda Belahyane) |
|
90+3' | ||
| Daniel Mosquera | |
90+4' |
