Friendlies: Torino crushed by Valencia, draws for Lecce and Genoa

Saturday night’s friendly against Torino at the ‘Mestalla’Mestalla’ ends with the score of 3-0 in favor of Valencia: down by two goals already at halftime (Javi Guerra scored at 21′ and Luis Roija at 43′), the granata also remained in ten from 51′ for the second yellow against Faustino Anjorin and suffered the 3-0 in the 60th minute, again by Javi Guerra. For Toro it is the third consecutive friendly knockout, following the 3-1 double against Monaco on July 31 and Aug. 1.

A rather disappointing evening also for Lecce, which squandered a two-goal lead and had to settle for a draw against Serie C side Monopoli: at the ‘Veneziani’ in Monopoli, the Giallorossi went up 2-0 after less than half an hour, as a result of goals by Nikola Krstovic at 13′ and Santiago Pierotti at 26′, but the green-and-whites first shortened the gap with Longo at 52′ and then found the equalizer at ’86’ with Tirelli. For Lecce, it is the first friendly draw this summer, after successes with Spezia and Carrarese interspersed with a loss to the UAE national team.

The friendly match that saw Genoa engaged on the field of Rennes also ends in a draw, but the performance of the match brings smiles to the Rossoblù: 15 minutes from the end it all seemed to be over, with Rennes ahead 2-0 thanks to goals by Mousa Tamari on 21′ and Djauoi Cissé on 73′, but first Ruslan Malinovskiy’s goal on 78′ and then Leo Ostigard’s on 92′ allowed Patrick Vieira’s men to preserve their summer unbeaten streak.

In the other friendly matches involving A teams on Saturday, double draw (0-0 and 1-1) of Cagliari in two confrontations on the same day against Racing Santander, 0-0 also between Cremonese and Reggiana, penalty shootout defeat of Fiorentina at home to Manchester United after the 1-1 draw in the 90′, clear knockout of the’Atalanta, beaten 4-0 by Cologne, Parma&#8217s 2-1 defeat against Heidenheim, narrow successes (1-0) of Udinese over Werder Bremen, Lazio over Burnley, Roma over Everton and Bologna over Stuttgart, 1-1 draws between AC Milan and Leeds and Sassuolo and Brest, 1-0 defeat of Hellas Verona against St. Pauli. Pauli, 3-2 victory of Napoli over Girona.