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Good evening and welcome to the Football Italia LIVEBLOG for Thursday evening’s coverage of the Serie A matches between Roma and Torino, and Como and Lazio.
Both matches will be kicking off at 19.45 GMT. Join us for all the pre-match build-up, in-game coverage and post-match reactions as they come in.
There will be particular scrutiny on the game between Roma and Torino, as Giallorossi coach Ivan Juric risks the sack if he is not able to muster up a win on home soil tonight.
Roma are expected to be without leading goalscorer Artem Dovbyk through illness, while captain Lorenzo Pellegrini could also miss out due to an issue with in his foot.
Lazio, meanwhile, have an opportunity to climb into the Serie A top four, although that require a victory and will also depend on the final outcome between Genoa and Fiorentina in the other game on this Thursday evening.
Roma 1-0 Torino
Unconvincing attempts, Roma push the Granata out, and the referee blows the final whistle!
Full match report out soon.
Torino trying to push for the last time.
4 minutes.
Lazio break on the counter, Como are all over the place defensively. Dia gets a great touch to send Castellanos through one-on-one, and the Argentine dispatches for his seventh goal of the season.
Cerri misses for Como this time. Patric slips, Como capitalise. Cutrone slips it in for Cerri in the area, but he puts it wide.
Cutrone with the shot for Como this time, but he is not able to hit the target. Their shooting has let them down this evening.
Roma
In: Shomurodov, El Shaarawy, Cristante
Out: Dybala, Zalewski, Baldanzi
Torino
In: Karamoh
Out: Linetty
How has Engelhardt not scored there! He has just come on, is presented with a clear goalscoring opportunity after Cutrone’s cut-back in the area, but somehow manages to put the ball just wide of the post from 10 yards out.
A slight hold up in the re-start of Como-Lazio as Patric’s goal is checked by VAR, but it is eventually given the all-clear. 1-3.
Roma and Torino have been pretty sloppy after the break. 15 minutes to go + added time.
Pedro sends in a corner to the back post after Castellanos’s free-kick. Patric was on hand to slam in a routine header. What a game!
Enjoy some stunning De Gea saves here. Fiorentina are now in the top four.
Fiorentina star David Gea inspired the Tuscans’ 1-0 win over Genoa with some stunning saves, which also earned him the MOTM award.
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Castellanos is on target from the free-kick, but Audero gets across to it and palms away.
Goldaniga hauls down Castellanos on the edge of the area and Lazio have a free-kick from a threatening position.
It’s for a member of Vanoli’s staff.
It’s 10 vs 10 now – Nuno Tavares is off for his second yellow – stopped another counter attack. Mario Gila had just made a wonderful run and put a splendid ball in for Castellanos just before, but the Argentine wasn’t able to capitalise. Como won it back and looked to break before Tavares’s intervention.
Fantastic intervention to deny Alieu Njie. Torino earn a corner kick.
Paz tries from distance again, but he hasn’t had his shooting boots on so far tonight. That’s another wayward effort.
In: Pellegrini
Out: Pisilli
Pellegrini booed by Roma fans.
No doubt about that one – the Austrian picks up his second yellow of the game and Como are down to 10. That’s a shame – his side had enjoyed all the possession after they reduced the deficit.
Tavares goes into the book for Lazio after stopping a Como counter-attack.
Kone wins the ball high up the pitch. Le Fée tries with the shot from outside the box, but Milinkovic-Savic saves it.
That’s a wonderful finish. The ball take a big bounce on the corner of the six-yard box, Mazzitelli swivels and fires an improvised volley up and over Provedel and off the frame of the goal from an improbable angle.
Isaksen gets a decent cross in from the right flank, which Dossena nearly puts into his own net. Boulaye Dia slams another effort goal-bound on the follow-up, but Audero stays strong.
Pisilli hits the post after a lovely Dybala move, but the Italian was offside. Free kick Toro.