Venezia completed a shock turnaround to beat Torino with Ridgeciano Haps and Domen Crnigoj for their first Serie A win since November, but Torino were furious at Andrea Belotti’s disallowed equaliser.

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Serie A Highlights: Torino 1-2 Venezia

The Granata had both Rolando Mandragora and Sasa Lukic suspended, plus Dennis Praet joining Alessandro Buongiorno on the treatment table, but Bremer returned from his ban. The Lagunari had Pietro Ceccaroni and Tyronne Ebuehi banned, with Sergio Romero, Sofian Kiyine, Antonio Vacca and Arnor Sigurdsson injured. Marco Modolo pulled during the warm-up for the visitors too.

Toro took the lead within five minutes, Josip Brekalo’s control and shot on the half-volley from the edge of the box bending back the goalkeeper’s hands, as Luca Lezzerini could’ve done a lot better there.

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It was largely the hosts dominating, but Mattia Aramu blasted over the bar and after a tactical adjustment to mirror Torino’s system, Venezia got back into the game.

Domen Crnigoj burst down the right and floated a ball to the back post, where Ridgeciano Haps was allowed a free header for his debut Serie A goal.

Wilfried Singo couldn’t keep the header down on a Mergim Vojvoda cross, but Venezia came out fighting after the restart and took the lead within 20 seconds. Aramu pulled back from the by-line for Crnigoj to absolutely smash it into the near top corner from 12 yards.

Ricardo Rodriguez drilled just wide, while David Okereke ruined a big chance on the counter-attack with his over-hit pass.

Andrea Belotti made his comeback for the first time since a serious thigh injury on November 28 and immediately almost set up Marcus Warming, while Tommaso Pobega blasted over.

There was drama in the final minute of normal time, as Belotti nodded in a Brekalo free kick, the perfect way to mark his comeback. However, after a very long wait for VAR, the referee had to decide via on on-field review whether Pobega’s offside was interfering with play. The official opted to disallow the goal, as Pobega was being marked by a defender.

VAR intervened again in stoppages, prompting the referee to give a straight red to David Okereke for a stamp on Karol Linetty, although it did not seem to be intentional at all. In fact, the referee had originally booked Linetty for the tackle.

Torino 1-2 Venezia

Brekalo 5 (T), Haps 38 (V), Crnigoj 46 (V)

Sent off: Okereke 98 (V)

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