Serie A: Bologna 3-2 Torino – Biraghi’s disaster debut seals thriller

A five goal thriller was settled by a last-minute own goal by debutant Cristiano Biraghi, who handed Bologna a 3-2 win at home against Torino in Serie A on Friday night.

Vincenzo Italiano welcomed a number of his first-choice defenders back into the starting line-up, including Sam Beukema, while Paolo Vanoli handed a first ever Serie A start to Italy U21 star Cesare Casadei, who joined in a permanent move from Chelsea in January.

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Bologna thought they had earned a chance to put themselves ahead from the penalty spot following Benja Dominguez’s lay-off into the area 15 minutes in, but a lengthy VAR check ended with the penalty call being overturned.

The officials decided that Ndoye had stepped across and clipped Karol Linetty, rather than Linetty clipping Ndoye, and so the scores remained at 0-0.

The Switzerland international did brilliantly to send Bologna 1-0 ahead just a few minutes later, though. Tommaso Pobega won possession and fed his teammate, who took a heavy touch towa

Torino had a pair of chances on the 25 minute mark; first through Che Adams, who won a corner after a decent save from Lukasz Skorpuski, and another from Saul Coco from the resulting set-piece.

The Granata centre-back managed to put it wide from a yard or two out with an empty net in front of him, but the whistle eventually went for a foul against Torino, so it would not have stood even if it had been on target.

Torino fluffed their biggest chance of the first half 10 minutes before the interval. Che Adams did fantastically to beat Jhon Lucumi and keep the ball under his control before racing into the area, effectively two-on-one against Skorupski, but inexplicably decided to square it to Yann Karamoh, despite being at a better angle himself.

Karamoh slipped in the area, and the ball rolled behind him.

Fortunately for Torino, they were level with their next attacking move. This time it was Guillermo Maripan who broke into the area, and found Vlasic in the middle via an unfortunate touch from Emil Holm, which allowed the Croatian to bury past