FLORENCE – Matchday 3 of Serie A opened with a third defeat for Fabio Grosso's Fiorentina, who were overturned by Torino at the Artemio Franchi stadium after taking an early lead through Pellegrino. In the final 15 minutes of regulation time, the Granata equalized with former player Mandragora and then overturned the result with Adams, earning their first points of the season and sending the Viola into a tailspin. For the second time in their Serie A history, Fiorentina have lost their first three league games of the season. To find such a poor start, we have to go back ninety years, to the 1935/36 season. And to think that the club chaired by Joseph Commisso was in the midst of its centenary celebrations, which had so far been a bitter one. The match report records one chance each in the first 15 minutes. The match could have taken a different turn after two minutes had it not been for the Granata goalkeeper's one-on-one save from Mastantuono, followed by Fortini's off-the-line clearance from Njie. De Gea also had to excel in the 11th minute on a powerful, angled long-range effort from Mandragora, who then broke the deadlock in the same way half an hour into the second half, equalizing Pellegrino's goal two minutes after halftime with the help of Perri, the goalkeeper on loan from Leeds. In the 37th minute, Adams' acrobatic winner sent Fiorentina into the abyss, and they failed to recover.
THE SCOREBOARD
FIORENTINA-TORINO 1-2
Fiorentina (4-3-3): de Gea 6; Joao Mario 5.5, Dragusin 5.5, Viery 5.5, Valdepenas 5.5; Fagioli 6, Oulai 6 (23' Ndour 6), Brescianini 5.5 (46' Atta 6); Mastantuono 5.5 (46' Gnonto 5.5), Pellegrino 6.5 (76' Beto n/a), Njie 6 (79' Goncalves n/a). Subs: Lezzerini, Christensen, Dodò, Pongracic, Ranieri, Jimenez. Coach: Grosso
Torino (3-5-1-1): Perri 5; Comuzzo 6 (Bragança 6 in 70'), Coco 6 (Ismajli 6 in 40'), Comert 6; Fortini 6.5 (Patterson 6.5 in 56'), Gineitis 5.5 (Simeone 6 in 70'), Mandragora 7, Fitz-Jim 6, Cacciamani 6.5 (Belghali 6.5 in 57'); Vlasic 6; Adams 7. Subs: Mascardi, Siviero, Biraghi, Ilkhan, Aboukhlal, Oristanio, Kulenovic, Carrascosa, Luongo, Zapata. Coach: Abate
Referee: Massa 6
Goalscorers: 48' Pellegrino (F), 74' Mandragora (T), 82' Adams (T)
