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Torino needs only Nikola Vlasic, Empoli in trouble
A game solved by great individual play.
Torino returned to winning ways and put tenth place in their sights, now only two points away after Udinese’s defeat in Friuli against Verona. The granata beat Empoli 1-0 in a more delicate challenge than expected, resolved by Nikola Vlasic in the 70th minute, and which puts the Tuscans more and more in trouble: fourth-last place and the salvation zone is now 3 points away.
It was precisely Empoli that built the first chance of the match, with Gineitis saving everything on Grassi. Torino resisted the first Azzurri shockwave and then reacted, with Vlasic and Biraghi coming to Silvestri’s sides. Then è Coco wasted a great chance, but the guests were in the match: Sambia raised his aim too much after a great action on the Gyasi-Cacace axis. In the final half Silvestri saves everything on Che Adams, but after having long suffered the opponents.
Vanoli ran for cover early in the second half by immediately sending Masina into the fray, who not surprisingly built the first Granata chance of the second half after a handful of minutes. Empoli seemed more guarded, but after the hour of play they restarted in a big way with Kouamé and then wasted everything with Gyasi, who in front of the goal threw the ball over the crossbar.
Having disposed of the scare, Torino regrouped and went on to win the game. Credit to Vlasic, who gathers the ball and does it all by himself by recovering a dirty ball on the three-quarter line, resisting Marianucci’s return and mocking Silvestri with a venomous ball that slips into the low corner. Chiffi cancelled Masina’s double for offside, Cacace and Colombo engaged Milinkovic-Savic who però saved the result. And for Empoli è really late night.
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Matteo Gigante, world number 164, didn’t make it against the emerging Czech Jakub Mensik, number 21, who in the second round of the men’s singles at the Internazionali d’Italia beat him with a score of 7-6 7-5 in just over an ira and 40 minutes of play.
Two evenly matched sets in which there was only one break, the one on 5-5 in the second set in favor of Mensik, and only two other break points, saved by Gigante, who on 3-3 also in the second set had found himself down 15-40.
The situation was repeated four games later and this time Gigante had to surrender at the second opportunity for Mensik, who won the first set tie-break 7-4 by stringing five consecutive points from 4-2 in favor of the 23-year-old Roman.
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At the Castellani Stadium the Saturday night match of the thirty-sixth day of Serie A between Empoli and Parma will be played at 8:45 pm.
Between the Tuscans Henderson and Grassi return from disqualification, however, Colombo will not be there for the same reason. Maleh, Kouamé, Sazonov, Zurkowski, Haas and Pellegri are unavailable. Cacace favored in the runoff with Solbakken.
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Among the Ducals, to be evaluated Mihaila, Vogliacco and Bernabé recovered instead Almqvist. Unavailable Charpentier, Kowalski, Osorio, Estevez and Cancellieri.
The probable lineups
EMPOLI (3-4-2-1): Vasquez; Goglichidze, Ismajli, Viti; Gyasi, Grassi, Henderson, Pezzella; Fazzini; Cacace, Esposito. All. D’Aversa.
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PARMA (3-5-2): Suzuki; Delprato, Leoni, Valenti; Hainaut, Hernani, Keita, Sohm, Valeri; Pellegrino, Bonny. All. Chivu.
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Giro d'Italia 2025: Tirana time trial to Joshua Tarling, Primoz Roglic is already pink jersey
The very young British rider Joshua Tarling, bearer of the Ineos Grenadiers and a specialist in races against the clock, won the Tirana time trial, the second stage of the Giro d’Italia 2025.
The 21-year-old Welshman covered the 13.7 kilometers of the course in 16’07”, finishing one second ahead of Slovenian Primoz Roglic, winner of the pink race in 2023, and three ahead of Australian Jay Vine of UAE Team Emirates.
Roglic, of Red Bul-Bora-Hansgrohe, snatched the pink jersey from Dane Mads Pedersen, of Lidl-Trek, who finished seventh, by just one second. Third at 5 seconds was Czech Mathias Vacek, Pedersen’s teammate.
The first Italian in the overall standings is Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious), eighth at 25 seconds, while in the time trial Edoardo Affini, also a time trial specialist like Tarling, finished fourth at 6 seconds behind the Briton.
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