Torino chase a third straight win against Cagliari

Three points are at stake to close out the year on a high and move closer to each side’s season goals. At the Olimpico Grande Torino, the Granata, after wins over Cremonese and Sassuolo in their last two outings, are chasing their first three-game winning streak of the campaign. Cagliari, five points behind, will be looking to put the disappointment of last week’s late home draw against Pisa behind them, a match that slipped away when victory seemed all but secured. Points are crucial for the Sardinians as they look to pull clear of the relegation zone.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

The two teams have met 49 times in official matches in Piedmont, with a record of 27 Torino wins (most recently 2–0 in Serie A 2024/25), 13 draws (most recently 0–0 in Serie A 2023/24) and 9 Cagliari wins (most recently 1–2 in Serie A 2021/22).

Cagliari have failed to score away to Torino for 208 minutes: their last goal in Turin was scored by Deiola in the 62nd minute of Torino–Cagliari 1–2 on 27 February 2022.

DID YOU KNOW?

Cagliari are currently enjoying their best scoring run of the 2025/26 season in official matches: six consecutive games with a goal, scoring nine goals in total. Their most recent goalless match was 0–0 at Como on 8 November.

COACHES and PLAYERS

Nikola Vlašić is one of two players to have scored the most penalties in Serie A in the 2025 calendar year: 4, level with Orsolini (Bologna).

Ché Adams and Nikola Vlašić are Torino’s most-used players in 2025: 36 appearances each out of the 38 official matches played in the calendar year. Torino’s top scorer is Nikola Vlašić with 9 goals.

Michael Adopo is Cagliari’s most-used player in 2025 (39 appearances out of 39). Elia Caprile has played the most minutes (3,240), while Roberto Piccoli is the top scorer with 7 goals in the first part of the season.

Michael Adopo is one of two outfield players to have made 36 appearances in 36 Serie A matches in the 2025 calendar year (January to date), along with Baschirotto (who played the first part of the season at Lecce, now at Cremonese).

DISCIPLINE 

Suspended: none

Cautioned: Esposito (Cagliari)

REFEREES

DOVERI (PASSERI – SCATRAGLI) IV: TREMOLADA, VAR: BARONI, AVAR: SOZZA

UPCOMING MATCHES

Verona-Torino (Sunday, January 4, 18.00 CET)

Cagliari-Milan (Friday, January 2, 20.45 CET)

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