Delightful dogfight as daring Torino duels with determined Sassuolo

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Date: Sun 25.August
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino (27958 seats)

This is the Serie A season opener for these teams, who are finally competing for points again. Who will get that important first win?

Torino have less rest than Sassuolo in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Europa League game only three days ago. This match was also played here at Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Sassuolo have had more rest.

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Torino form and stats

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Torino have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found five games) they have won 3 times, drawn 1 and lost 1.

There will be little rest for Torino after this match as they are travelling to Wolverhampton Wanderers for a Europa League game in only four days.

Last season, Torino's league statistics were 16 wins, 15 draws and 7 losses, resulting in a 7th position in the Serie A. Over these 38 matches they scored 52 goals and conceded 37. Playing at home last season Torino managed 12-2-5 (win-draw-lost) with 32 goals and 19 conceded.

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Sassuolo form and stats

Sassuolo are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat. From a total of two matches.

Just as the home team, Sassuolo have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 1 Sassuolo win, 0 draws and 0 losses.

Let's have a look at how Sassuolo performed last season in the Serie A: They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 16 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 53 and conceded 60 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 6 and lost 9 with 20/27 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Torino 3 wins, 5 draws and Sassuolo 2 victories. As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Torino missing players

Sassuolo missing players

Torino Sassuolo
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs low Away Total
0 0 0 Played 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed To Score 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners For (avg) 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Torino Last season Sassuolo
Total Home   Statistic   Away Total
0 0   Played   0 0
0 0   Won   0 0
0 0   Drew   0 0
0 0   Lost   0 0
0 0   Scored   0 0
0 0   Conceded   0 0
0% 0%   Over 0.5   0% 0%
0% 0%   Over 1.5   0% 0%
0% 0%   Over 2.5   0% 0%
0% 0%   Over 3.5   0% 0%
0% 0%   Over 4.5   0% 0%
0% 0%   BTTS   0% 0%
0% 0%   Clean Sheets   0% 0%
0% 0%   Failed To Score   0% 0%
 
0 0   Corners For (avg)   0 0
0 0   Corners Against (avg)   0 0
0 0   Yellow Cards (avg)   0 0
0 0   Red Cards   0 0

Torino
25-07-19 EL Torino 3 - 0 Debrecen
01-08-19 EL Debrecen 1 - 4 Torino
08-08-19 EL Torino 5 - 0 Shakhtyor
15-08-19 EL Shakhtyor 1 - 1 Torino
22-08-19 EL Torino 2 - 3 Wolverhampton Wanderers
25-08-19 SA Torino 18:45 Sassuolo
29-08-19 EL Wolverhampton Wanderers 18:45 Torino
01-09-19 SA Atalanta 18:45 Torino
15-09-19 SA Torino - Lecce
22-09-19 SA Sampdoria - Torino
Sassuolo
12-05-19 SA Torino 3 - 2 Sassuolo
18-05-19 SA Sassuolo 0 - 0 Roma
26-05-19 SA Atalanta 3 - 1 Sassuolo
10-08-19 CF Sassuolo 1 - 0 Alessandria
18-08-19 CI Sassuolo 1 - 0 Spezia
25-08-19 SA Torino 18:45 Sassuolo
01-09-19 SA Sassuolo 18:45 Sampdoria
15-09-19 SA Roma - Sassuolo
22-09-19 SA Sassuolo - SPAL
25-09-19 SA Parma - Sassuolo

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Juventus 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
2 Atalanta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Bologna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Brescia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Cagliari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Fiorentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Genoa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Hellas Verona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Inter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Lazio 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Lecce 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Milan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Napoli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Roma 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Sampdoria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Sassuolo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 SPAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Torino 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Udinese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Parma 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Juventus 38 28 6 4 70 30 19 15 4 0 39 13 19 13 2 4 31 17 40 90
2 Napoli 38 24 7 7 74 36 19 13 4 2 41 16 19 11 3 5 33 20 38 79
3 Atalanta 38 20 9 9 77 46 19 10 5 4 36 19 19 10 4 5 41 27 31 69
4 Inter 38 20 9 9 57 33 19 11 5 3 27 10 19 9 4 6 30 23 24 69
5 Milan 38 19 11 8 55 36 19 12 4 3 31 17 19 7 7 5 24 19 19 68
6 Roma 38 18 12 8 66 48 19 12 5 2 43 26 19 6 7 6 23 22 18 66
7 Torino 38 16 15 7 52 37 19 12 2 5 32 19 19 4 13 2 20 18 15 63
8 Lazio 38 17 8 13 56 46 19 9 5 5 36 25 19 8 3 8 20 21 10 59
9 Sampdoria 38 15 8 15 60 51 19 10 2 7 28 16 19 5 6 8 32 35 9 53
10 Bologna 38 11 11 16 48 56 19 9 4 6 28 22 19 2 7 10 20 34 -8 44
11 Sassuolo 38 9 16 13 53 60 19 5 10 4 33 33 19 4 6 9 20 27 -7 43
12 Udinese 38 11 10 17 39 53 19 8 5 6 22 22 19 3 5 11 17 31 -14 43
13 SPAL 38 11 9 18 44 56 19 5 7 7 20 26 19 6 2 11 24 30 -12 42
14 Parma 38 10 11 17 41 61 19 5 7 7 18 25 19 5 4 10 23 36 -20 41
15 Cagliari 38 10 11 17 36 54 19 8 6 5 23 20 19 2 5 12 13 34 -18 41
16 Fiorentina 38 8 17 13 47 45 19 5 9 5 25 19 19 3 8 8 22 26 2 41
17 Genoa 38 8 14 16 39 57 19 6 8 5 21 22 19 2 6 11 18 35 -18 38
18 Empoli 38 10 8 20 51 70 19 9 3 7 33 30 19 1 5 13 18 40 -19 38
19 Frosinone 38 5 10 23 29 69 19 1 6 12 14 38 19 4 4 11 15 31 -40 25
20 Chievo 38 2 14 22 25 75 19 1 7 11 14 37 19 1 7 11 11 38 -50 17