Serie A | Torino 2-1 Verona: No hope for sorry Hellas

Torino found it tougher than expected, but Giovanni Simeone and Cesare Casadei sent plucky Verona to a fourth consecutive defeat.

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The Granata were still without Duvan Zapata, Zakaria Aboukhlal and Zanos Savva, with Niels Nkounkou also left out. Hellas were practically doomed by defeat to Fiorentina, with Tomas Suslov suspended, Sandi Lovric, Armel Bella-Kotchap and Suat Serdar injured.

See how it all unfolded on the Liveblog.

There was a minute’s silence before kick-off for Ismael Pistis, an eight-year-old member of the Torino youth academy who was killed in a car crash this week.

It took just six minutes to break the deadlock, as Marcus Pedersen sprung the offside trap to nod down a ball over the top for Giovanni Simeone, who sent Andrias Edmundsson to ground with his first touch, firing in from 12 yards with the right boot. Just like when he scored against his old club earlier this season, Cholito did not celebrate.

Verona were unlucky not to equalise on 11 minutes, as Alberto Paleari mistimed his intervention on a free kick, allowing Roberto Gagliardini to nod it onto the crossbar.

They did get the deserved equaliser when Kieron Bowie was stronger than Ardian Ismajli on a Lorenzo Montipò long ball, shrugging off his marker and turning to score one-on-one.

Moments later, Verona threatened again with Antoine Bernede’s angled drive flashing just wide, while Che Adams fired off target for Torino.

The hosts were jeered off the field at half-time by their fans and came out with a different attitude for the restart, Simeone bending a finish inches wide.

They restored their lead when Rafa Obrador’s disguised shot from the edge of the area turned into an assist for Cesare Casadei to steer in first time from six yards.

Che Adams soared above the crowd to nod in another Obrador assist, this time a floated cross from the left, but it was disallowed because Simeone was offside in the build-up.

Simeone tried to make up for it by smashing a long-range strike wide moments later, while Ismajli charged down the Gift Orban attempt.

Torino 2-1 Verona

Simeone 6 (T), Bowie 38 (V), Casadei 50 (T)

11-04-2026 14:00

MatchDay 32

Olympic Grande Torino Stadium

Torino

Verona

2 - 1

Player statistic

1st half

Giovanni Simeone (Assist: Marcus Pedersen)		6'
Ardian Ismajli		25'
		26'		Andrias Edmundsson
		38'		Kieron Bowie (Assist: Lorenzo Montipò)

2nd half

		46'		Martin Frese
Cesare Casadei (Assist: Rafa Obrador)		50'
		65'		Daniel Oyegoke
		90+5'		Nicolás Valentini

Match statistic

46

Possession %

54

11

Total shots

18

2

Shots on target

4

7

Shots off target

6

2

Blocked shots

8

3

Corners

6

2

Offsides

1

13

Fouls

17

Torino

Verona

Starting lineups

1

Alberto Paleari

Goalkeeper

44

Ardian Ismajli

Defender

77

Enzo Ebosse

Defender

84'

16

Marcus Pedersen

Defender

33

Rafa Obrador

Defender

84'

23

Saúl Coco

Defender

67'

22

Cesare Casadei

Midfielder

66

Gvidas Gineitis

Midfielder

75'

10

Nikola Vlasic

Midfielder

19

Ché Adams

Attacker

75'

18

Giovanni Simeone

Attacker

1

Lorenzo Montipò

Goalkeeper

5

Andrias Edmundsson

Defender

60'

2

Daniel Oyegoke

Defender

3

Martin Frese

Defender

81'

7

Rafik Belghali

Defender

82'

15

Victor Nelsson

Defender

21

Abdou Harroui

Midfielder

60'

24

Antoine Bernede

Midfielder

68'

11

Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro

Midfielder

63

Roberto Gagliardini

Midfielder

18

Kieron Bowie

Attacker

Substitutes

81

Franco Israel

Goalkeeper

20

Valentino Lazaro

Defender

61

Adrien Tameze

Midfielder

8

Ivan Ilić

Midfielder

14

Tino Anjorin

Midfielder

6

Emirhan Ilkhan

Midfielder

92

Alieu Njie

Attacker

99

Lapo Siviero

Goalkeeper

35

Luca Marianucci

Defender

67'

17

Sandro Kulenovic

Attacker

75'

98

Matteo Prati

Midfielder

75'

34

Cristiano Biraghi

Defender

84'

13

Guillermo Maripán

Defender

84'

34

Simone Perilli

Goalkeeper

14

Pol Lirola

Defender

36

Cheikh Niasse

Attacker

94

Giacomo Toniolo

Goalkeeper

72

Junior Ajayi

Attacker

73

Moatasem Al-Musrati

Midfielder

19

Tobias Slotsager

Defender

70

Fallou Cham

Defender

41

Isaac

Attacker

16

Gift Orban

Attacker

60'

6

Nicolás Valentini

Defender

60'

12

Domagoj Bradaric

Defender

68'

25

Daniel Mosquera

Attacker

81'

9

Amin Sarr

Attacker

82'