Torino
Roma
Match summary
Roma beat Torino 2-0 on the road. Roma led 1-0 at half-time.
Donyell Malen put Roma ahead in the 40th minute and Niccolò Pisilli made it 0-2 in stoppage time.
The chances backed that up: Roma created 2.42 expected goals (xG) from 14 shots to Torino's 0.71 from 7.
Roma secured a comfortable away victory against Torino in Serie A matchday four, dictating the tempo through superior territorial dominance and clinical finishing. Despite holding fifty-three percent possession and completing five hundred and nine passes, Torino struggled to turn their territorial presence into tangible chances, managing an expected goals tally of just zero point seven one compared to Roma's two point four two. Roma generated fourteen total shots, five of which hit the target, alongside seventy-one dangerous attacks and eight corners. Defensively, the visitors committed twenty fouls and accumulated two yellow cards while limiting the hosts to only three shots on target and a single corner kick.
The breakthrough arrived in the thirty-ninth minute when Donyell Malen converted a right-footed shot with an expected goals value of zero point eight four, sending Roma into the interval with a one-goal advantage. Following multiple substitutions from both sides in the second half, Roma players Mario Hermoso and Niccolò Pisilli received yellow cards in the sixty-first and seventy-second minutes respectively. As the match approached its conclusion, Niccolò Pisilli sealed the result in the third minute of added time with a right-footed strike, bringing the final score to zero-two in favour of the away side.
