Spezia earned a surprise 1-0 victory over Torino thanks to a thunderbolt from Jacopo Sala, dragging themselves out of the drop zone.
The Granata found form under Ivan Juric at last, but had Tommaso Pobega suspended, along with Josip Brekalo, Rolando Mandragora, Cristian Ansaldi and Simone Edera injured. Spezia sat in the bottom three and were coming off a heavy defeat to Fiorentina. Kevin Agudelo, Arkadiusz Reca and Medhi Bourabia were still on the treatment table.
Daniele Verde curled just wide, then Andrea Belotti thumped the crossbar from seven yards. VAR called the referee to view that incident again, as Wilfred Singo’s glancing header on the Dennis Praet cross touched Simone Bastoni on the arm, but it was nodded onto him from point-blank range, so not considered a penalty.
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Emanuel Gyasi drilled wide and M’Bala Nzola blasted over after it was laid off for him by Verde, but the centre-forward did better moments later, forcing the save from Vanja Milinkovic-Savic.
Spezia had been increasing the pressure and finally broke through with a ferocious Jacopo Sala strike from 20 metres out, thumped with his right boot in at the near post.
Antonio Sanabria threatened an equaliser, his angled drive flashing across the face of goal, but despite pouring forward for much of the second half, Toro failed to really trouble Ivan Provedel.
Spezia 1-0 Torino
Sala 59 (S)
Hmmm