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·11 Januari 2025

Serie A | Torino 1-1 Juventus: Old Lady fumbles derby lead

Juventus were held to yet another stalemate, this time by their city rivals Torino in the Derby della Mole, as Nikola Vlasic cancelled out the Kenan Yildiz strike and both coaches saw red.

The Bianconeri were feeling the pressure after Supercoppa Italiana semi-final failure against Milan and four draws in the last five Serie A rounds. Dusan Vlahovic, Francisco Conceicao, Arek Milik, Gleison Bremer and Juan Cabal were injured, with Manuel Locatelli suspended, so Nico Gonzalez had to be used as a centre-forward and Teun Koopmeiners given the captain’s armband. Toro missed Ivan Ilic, Duvan Zapata, Zanos Savva and Emirhan Ilkhan, with Sebastian Walukiewicz not fully fit and moved to a 4-4-1-1 formation.

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A scuffle erupted on the touchline between players in the opening 90 seconds, but Kenan Yildiz opened the scoring after eight minutes.

It was a pure solo effort, as he gathered down the right, cut inside past two Toro players and drilled hard and low into the near bottom corner with the left boot from outside the area.

epa11818920 Juventus’ Kenan Yldiz jubilates after scoring the 0-1 during the Italian Serie A soccer match Torino FC vs Juventus FC at the Olimpico Grande Torino Stadium in Turin, Italy, 11 January 2025. EPA-EFE/Alessandro Di Marco

Karol Linetty couldn’t keep his finish down when a corner was flicked on to the back post, while Nico Gonzalez was offside when turning in the Samuel Mbangula slide-rule pass.

Federico Gatti steered his header just wide from a Kenan Yildiz cross and Samuele Ricci made a decisive interception to stop Koopmeiners sending Mbangula clear on goal, but then the Torino midfielder ballooned over at the other end.

Toro equalised in first half stoppages when Karamoh cut inside from the left and found Vlasic on the edge of the penalty area, the first touch flicking it up for the ferocious half-volley in off the inside of the near post.

The Granata started the second half very aggressively, a Guillermo Maripan volley straight at Di Gregorio on a corner, while Nico Gonzalez and Kenan Yildiz both went for the same Mbangula cross and collided with each other.

Torino immediately countered and Karamoh was going clear until a desperate Nicolò Savona sliding tackle that got his studs to the ball. The referee waved play on, prompting a furious row on the touchline that saw both coaches Paolo Vanoli and Thiago Motta sent off.

Kenan Yildiz blasted over from distance and Koopmeiners stung Vanja Milinkovic-Savic’s gloves, but Nico Gonzalez should’ve done better with a scuffed volley on the Mbangula cross that Milinkovic-Savic fingertipped away at full stretch.

Timothy Weah came off the bench and immediately tested the Torino goalkeeper with a screamer from a long way out, but Juventus failed to beat their city rivals for only the sixth time in the last 22 competitive meetings.