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Torino market, Marco Baroni takes big risks: decisive Sunday

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Marco Baroni is risking big and cannot allow Torino to run into more missteps if he does not want a rotation to come about: the very heavy defeat suffered by the granata on the Como field already has a first consequence, with the team that as early as Monday will go into training camp to prepare for the next championship challenge, Sunday, Feb. 1, at home with Lecce, one of the teams coached in the past by the Florentine coach.

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Como overwhelms Torino with a clear 6-0 in a dominating performance from'beginning to end.
An afternoon to forget for Marco Baroni’s team, put in great difficulty by Cesc Fabregas’s eleven.
The hosts start off full with high and continuous pressing that produces chances from the first minutes.

At'8' the lead arrives: Douvikas signs the'1-0 with a low diagonal shot that deflected ends up in the net.
Torino struggles to set up, appears inaccurate and suffers the speed of the Larian game. Paleari asks for help but receives little of it.
At 16' Baturina finds the double and fuels the Sinigaglia'enthusiasm.
The'referee Feliciani after video check awards a penalty to Como in the second half.
Lucas Da Cunha kicks left under the'cross for 3-0, Paleari guesses but fails to intervene.
On Baturina’s assist, Douvikas easily finds the 4-0 further sinking a struggling Torino.
Nicolas Kühn, who just entered the field, from the edge of the area scored the fifth goal, beating Paleari with a precise left-footed shot and once again slotting into the Granata goal.
The match ends with the 6-0 signed by Caqueret who controls at the edge and kicks right.
Caqueret’s goal comes accomplice to a wrong postponement by Casadei that favors Como’s'action.
For Torino the triple whistle finally arrives, while Como celebrates a crushing victory.

“I take responsibility for this defeat – said Baroni, in no uncertain terms, at the end of the Sinigaglia match -I don’t think about the absentees, we faced a stronger and brighter team than us, mentally and physically. After the penalty we practically walked off the field. I am not disappointed with the players, I take it on myself: I am the person who has to find solutions”.

For the moment, however, Baroni is safe, as he himself stressed after the triple whistle. “I have never felt so much confidence, they even reiterated it to me,” he said. A time-bound confidence, though…

Torino, after 22 league games, has accumulated 23 points, scoring 21 goals and conceding 40, making it the worst defense in the entire Serie A at the final whistle of the match against Como.

The granata have had an anonymous season so far in the league, but are still in contention on the Coppa Italia front, a trophy they have won five times, most recently in the 1992-93 season. Toro, in the Cup, has beaten Modena, Pisa and, most recently, Roma at the Stadio Olimpico, and in the quarterfinals will face Atalanta, in the same part of the table that also has Bologna and Lazio involved.

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