ROME: A late Che Adams strike sealed a 2-1 comeback win for Torino over Fiorentina on Saturday as the Florence club’s nightmare start to the season continued.
Mateo Pellegrino’s long-range strike put Fiorentina in front early in the second half, but a pile-driver from Rolando Mandragora who had only joined Torino from La Viola four days earlier drew the scores level.
Scotland internationalAdams sealed his side’s first points of the season in the 82nd minute, plucking a cross out of the air and flicking it in from close range to stun the Stadio Artemio Franchi crowd.
Fiorentina signed 13 players and appointed new coach Fabio Grosso over the summer after a humbling 15th-place finish last season.
The two-time Italian champions have lost their first three games by an aggregate score of 9-1, and were booed off by theirown fans following a performance that left them in last place.
On Friday, Senegalese youngster Assane Diao scored twice for Como in a come-from-behind 4-1 win at Genoa.
Cesc Fabregas’s side, who finished fourth last season to qualify for the Champions League for the first time, have seven points from three matches and provisionally moved to the top of the table ahead of six teams, who all have six points but havea game in hand.
Como have not played a home game yet this term due to renovation work on their Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia.
Genoa, 19th, took the lead in the 19th minute as Milutin Osmajic finished off a quick counter-attack by thumping in Lorenzo Colombo’s low cross.
Como levelled six minutes later as Martin Baturina drilled a long-range shot into the bottom corner, before Diao volleyed them in front on the half-hour mark.
Nico Paz made it three goals for the visitors in 15 minutes as he latched onto a ball in behind from Yan Couto and lashed a shot into the roof of the net for his first goal of the campaign.
The 20-year-old Diao completed the scoring with 12 minutes remaining by slotting into the corner after brilliant holdup play from Moise Kean on his debut after signing on loan from Fiorentina on deadline day.
-AFP