2026/2027 season

Serie A

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Torino
Head coach: Ignazio Abate · 3-4-2-1
Rank
13th
Pts
7
P
6
Form
🟡 Average

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
4/10
Attack
5/10
Defence
5/10
Form
4/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

13th with 7 pts from 6 matches: 2 wins, 1 draw, 3 defeats.

7 goals scored, 9 conceded.

The technician confirms the Argentine in the eleven holder and then explains: "We want to give certainties to the team"

Tuttosport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

In addition to competing this Sunday for his first title in this category, Alejandro Davidovich by means of, the Madrid tennis player occupies the ninth place in the race towards the ATP Finals of Turin, so with the fall of Sinner right now has a headline place in the Italian tournament, and can also spray a brand from another time.

ABC Deportes · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Then Jódar eliminated Russian Daniil Medvedev (number 5) by the fast track (6-3 and 6-4). In 22 editions of this tournament, which began in 1996 and has had a Masters 1000 category since 2009 (the second major tournaments after the four Grand Slam), only four Spanish tennis players had played the final, and none has been able to win it until now. Rafael Nadal reached..

ABC Deportes · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The grenade of Ignazio Abate visits Alberto Gilardino's Giallorossi in the seventh day of Serie A

Tuttosport · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Wvs Udinese Calcio (H) · 2-1
Dvs Bologna FC 1909 (A) · 1-1
Lvs AS Roma (H) · 0-2
Wvs ACF Fiorentina (A) · 2-1
Lvs US Sassuolo Calcio (A) · 1-2
WWDLLL
7 scored / 9 conceded over 6 matches played
Rest: 6 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
1W - 0D - 2L
Away form
1W - 1D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
1.2
Goals conceded per match
1.4
At home
2 scored · 3 conceded in 2 matches
Away
4 scored · 4 conceded in 3 matches
Over 2.5 goals
3 of 5
Both teams score
4 of 5
Clean sheets
0 of 5
Failed to score
1 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Torino play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
3-4-2-1
Philosophy
Abate is imposing an identity that marks a clear break from the recent past, based on verticality and aggression, with concepts clearly communicated to the squad from the pre-season training camp in Pinzolo (cuoretoro.it, 15/07/2026); Assopoker's tactical analysis confirms a defensive line intended to be “più spregiudicata” (more daring) and play built on the flanks, with the playmakers constantly moving between the lines (assopoker.com, 05/08/2026).
Attacking strengths
Built around captain Vlašić as playmaker and the Zapata-Simeone striker duo, both of whom had their contracts extended this summer; Comuzzo equalised against Sassuolo (45+2).
Defensive solidity
Back three (Cömert, Coco, Comuzzo); conceded Berardi's decisive late goal in the 2-1 defeat at Sassuolo (29/08).
Pressing
Collective pressing sought immediately after losing the ball (“primo pressing corale”), with a full-back pushing up to press the opposing ball-carrier at the risk of leaving space behind him (pianetamilan.it, pre-Torino-Milan analysis, 21/08/2026); an intensity already presented in summer training as “quasi mourinhiana”, with the aim of winning the ball back within a few seconds (cuoretoro.it, 15/07/2026).
Transitions
In offensive transition, Torino look to break quickly to attack an opposing defence not yet organised, targeting depth via Simeone and the flanks; in defensive transition, however, the granata backline struggles to get back quickly when caught out of position in open play, a weakness identified even before matchday 1 (pianetamilan.it, 21/08/2026), in keeping with the intent stated in pre-season to “ribaltare l'azione con rapidità” (cuoretoro.it, 15/07/2026).
StrengthRecruitment completed with the signing of Fortini on the right flank and the contract extensions of both strikers (Zapata until 2028, at Abate's request).
Weakness2-1 defeat at Sassuolo on matchday 2 after equalising just before half-time, a sign of a lack of solidity late in matches.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
The granata mood is the most damaged in the league: three consecutive defeats, no points in Serie A and elimination at the Coppa Italia last-32 stage at home to Monza. The match figures are damning, with sixteen shots and not one on target despite 54% possession. Ignazio Abate himself endorsed the crowd's reaction, judging the boos “fair” and repeating that his team had to “become a team”. The returns of Duván Zapata and Tino Anjorin, long-term absentees, are the only grounds for hope before the trip to Florence.
Coach / players / board relationship
Abate continues to protect his board publicly while taking sole responsibility for results. After the elimination, he said he was satisfied with the additions obtained, specifying that he now has four forwards and two extra midfielders made available by the club, and praised in particular the contribution of Rolando Mandragora, whom he describes as “a leader, someone with charisma”. That message contrasts with the more insistent demands he was making at the end of August. In the dressing room, no conflict is reported, the head coach stressing above all the cohesion still to be built in a group upended by fifteen signings.
Mood with the supporters
Active protest against president Cairo: around a thousand supporters demonstrated with a “Vattene” banner before Torino-Milan, fuelled by the Cacciamani situation (coveted by Roma) and resentment over past sales (Bellanova) deemed to have been decided “without the coach's knowledge” (tuttosport.com, 23/08/2026); according to cuoretoro.it (18/08/2026), the mission assigned to Abate is explicitly to “restore enthusiasm to a place that has known murmurs and protest” after a 12th-place finish last season marked by two coaching changes.
Pressure on the head coach
Pressure on Ignazio Abate has risen sharply after three defeats in three competitive matches, without a single point or win in his first Serie A campaign. He chose transparency by acknowledging that Monza deserved it, by accepting the boos and by naming defensive solidity as the priority task before Florence. His handling of the refereeing was also measured: on the penalty overturned by VAR in the 90+4th minute, he felt there was a foul but endorsed the line taken. The trip to a Fiorentina side also in difficulty already looks like a make-or-break match for the credibility of his project.
Club objectives
The European ambition stated in the close season now looks very distant after a start without a single point and immediate elimination from the cup. Abate's message has refocused on objectives of construction: becoming a team, finding defensive solidity, integrating the many signings. The returns of Zapata and Anjorin widen an already well-stocked attack with four forwards available. In the short term, the only tangible objective is to get off the mark in Florence.
Recent internal tensions
The focal point remains Urbano Cairo's presidency, contested since the summer by an organised section of the support, with marches and banners. Elimination from the Coppa Italia and the complete absence of points have added a more directly sporting protest, with boos at the end of the match against Monza that the head coach himself judged justified. The VAR decision overturning a penalty in stoppage time fed a sense of injustice, even if Abate refused to make it a matter of controversy. No tension between the dressing room and the staff is reported at this stage.
Absences
BackDuván Zapata — Back after a long injury, he played around thirty minutes against Monza in the Coppa Italia.
BackTino Anjorin — Also back at Abate's disposal after a long absence, according to the head coach.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Parma — Torino

AwayMonday 19 October at 20:45Matchday 7
It's tomorrow. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says
Prediction
EstimateParma — Torino
34 %
1 · Parma
25 %
X · draw
41 %
2 · Torino
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Parma, 6 matches by Torino. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 187 goals scored over 130 team-matches played (20 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.44 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Parma — attack4 in 6 matches0.460.73
    Parma — defence10 in 6 matches1.161.08
    Torino — attack7 in 6 matches0.810.91
    Torino — defence9 in 6 matches1.041.02
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Parma and 0.50 for Torino. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.65 goal scored on average by the host against 1.33 by the visitor, over the 52 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.24; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.44, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.10. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Parma at home: 1.33 pts/match versus 0.67 overall over 3 matches → ×1.120
    Torino away: 1.33 pts/match versus 1.17 overall over 3 matches → ×1.039
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λParma = 1.44 × 0.73 × 1.02 × 1.10 × 1.120 = 1.33
    λTorino = 1.44 × 0.91 × 1.08 × 1.039 = 1.46
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 34.3%, draw 25.3%, away win 40.4% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 11.9%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Franco Israel
  • A. Paleari
  • D. Mascardi
  • Lapo Siviero
Defenders
  • Saúl Coco
  • Cristiano Biraghi
  • A. Ismajli
  • M. Pedersen
  • Pietro Comuzzo
  • Eray Cömert
  • N. Fortini
  • Ali Dembélé
  • Come Bianay
  • Mattia Pellini
Midfielders
  • Nikola VlašićC
  • C. Casadei
  • G. Gineitis
  • Kian Fitz-Jim
  • Ivan Ilić
  • G. Oristanio
  • Emirhan Ilkhan
  • Tino Anjorin
  • Andrea Luongo
Forwards
  • Ché Adams
  • Z. Aboukhlal
  • Giovanni Simeone
  • S. Kulenović
  • Duvan Zapata
  • A. Cacciamani
  • P. Pellegri
  • Tommaso Gabellini
  • Alieu Njie
This team's current captain could not be confirmed with certainty at the last check — no armband is shown above until the information is reliable.
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: besoccer.com/team/squad/torino-fc (2026-27), captain cross-checked via toro.it (two separate articles from the same site, 22/08/2026) without confirmation from an additional independent source.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Gilardino discovers the cards towards Parma-Torino: "Romero plays." On Bernabé and the tactical choice. .
Source: Tuttosport
rss18 Oct 2026
Abbot: “Turin, no thoughts. Casadei must turn mentally”
Source: Tuttosport
rss17 Oct 2026
Parma-Turin: likely formations and direct. Where to see on TV and streaming
Source: Tuttosport
rss12 Oct 2026
Torino wins Udinese with ex-Sporting Daniel Bragança highlighted
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss15 Oct 2026
Woltemade, who are you? Certezza or Erasmus in Turin, exam Celta and Juve prepares to...reso of the accounts
Source: Tuttosport
rss14 Oct 2026
Ilkhan, the outcome of the examinations after the injury in Turin-Udinese: for how many games Abate lost him
Source: Tuttosport
Other2 Sep 2026
In the 90+4th minute, a penalty was first awarded to Torino by referee Perenzoni before being overturned after a VAR review. Ignazio Abate commented on the decision on Italia 1: “For me it is a penalty, but if that is the line, it is right not to have given it,” drawing a parallel with a similar situation involving Vlašić against Milan.
Source: Napoli Magazine
Club2 Sep 2026
The match statistics confirm the poor performance: 54% possession for Torino but none of the granata's sixteen shots found the target, against 19 shots and 8 saves forced from the opposing goalkeeper by Monza, for expected goals of 1.95 to 1.05.
Source: Toro.it
Club2 Sep 2026
For the trip to Florence, Abate is expected in a 3-4-2-1 with new goalkeeper Lucas Perri favoured over Mascardi, a Comuzzo-Coco-Cömert defence, Fortini preferred to Belghali on the left and Gineitis competing with Ilkhan in midfield, Vlašić and Adams behind Giovanni Simeone.
Source: FantaMaster
Other2 Sep 2026
Fiorentina v Torino, on Saturday 5 September at 15:00, has been handed to referee Massa, with Giua on VAR.
Source: Toro.it
Result1 Sep 2026
A third consecutive defeat in all competitions and elimination at the Coppa Italia last-32 stage: Torino lost 0-1 at home to Monza, through a Dany Mota goal just before the break (45+3). Oristanio had hit the post in the very first minute and Robinson also struck the woodwork for the visitors.
Source: Corriere dello Sport
Head coach1 Sep 2026
After the elimination, Abate acknowledged that Monza deserved it and hammered home: “We have to grow, we have to become a team,” naming defensive solidity as the first task. He also accepted the crowd's verdict: “The supporters' boos? Fair.” He did, however, welcome the return of Duván Zapata, on for thirty minutes, and described Rolando Mandragora as “a leader, someone with charisma”.
Source: Toro.it
Club1 Sep 2026
In the Coppa Italia, Abate had used a new 3-4-1-2 with Perri; Comuzzo, Ismajli, Coco; Fortini, Gineitis, Luongo, Cacciamani; Oristanio; Kulenović and Simeone.
Source: Tutto Monza
Club1 Sep 2026
With fifteen signings registered, Torino are the Serie A club that most deeply restructured its squad during this summer window.
Source: Il Calcio Quotidiano
Result1 Sep 2026
A second defeat on matchday 2, 2-1 away at Sassuolo, which leaves the Granata on no points.
Source: Calcio Casteddu
Result29 Aug 2026
Torino lost 2-1 at Sassuolo (matchday 2): Comuzzo had equalised (45+2) after Volpato's opener, but Berardi gave the Neroverdi the win (78th).
Source: SassuoloOnline.it
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.