Fiorentina-Turin 0-1: a goal from Miranchuk was enough for Juric to sink the Viola

FLORENCE — A pearl of Miranchuk and the Turin clears the Franks as it hasn’t happened for 47 years. It was 1976, it seems an era ago. It is, indeed. Ciccio Graziani took care of it to sign the winning goal on 31 October. This time Miranchuk took care of it but it was the whole grenade team that ran almost perfectly. Seventh place reached, Juventus momentarily behind by four points. This already sends the Toro fans into ecstasy, who joined the purple ones in a historic twinning that was also strengthened on the freezing evening of the Franchi. On the pitch, however, it was the team’s Juric to command. Great first half, all compactness and quick restarts. Recovery with few mistakes, a lot of attention and only a risk in the final when Jovic didn’t find the way to goal which seems like a mirage near Florence. To understand: the Florentine closes the first round with 23 points, -9 compared to a year ago with 13 fewer goals. There was a certain Vlahovic, of course. But that bomber was never properly replaced. Juric celebrates, their players rejoice as they return to look at the Europa goal with great confidence.

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Miranchuk, goal with a shot

A pearl of 59 from Turin freezes the hopes of the almost 30,000 Viola spectators in a Franchi who is already bordering on freezing temperatures. Juric’s team plays, gets off to a great start, always finds the right through ball that displaces the opposing defense. It happens in the 12th minute with that through ball who finds Seck: shot, goal but the referee disallows for offside. Fiorentina responds in the 21st minute with Kouamè who serves Ikonè very well: the Frenchman does everything right, enters the area easily but at the moment of the shot he makes a sensational mistake, choking too much. In the 22nd minute then Turin again, with Seck hitting a sensational crossbar. Extremely beautiful. In the 25th minute the grenades push forward with Singo who kicks centrally but powerfully and Terracciano has to push back low. Then the purple ring, in the 29th minute: cross from Biraghi from the left and Kouamè who deflects in front of goal but finds Milinkovic Savic to oppose at the near post. So the Torino goal: from left to right on Miranchuk’s feet who has all the time, on the edge of the area, to control and place with a magical left foot. Bad, on the occasion, the Italian rearguard. At the end of the first half, the Viola fans booed, dissatisfied with the performance and the too many mistakes seen on the pitch.

Turin in the Europe area

Celebrating Juric and his players. Precious that goal in the first half by Miranchuk. Because in the second half the two coaches change interpreters, try to reposition themselves on the field and Fiorentina also have some interesting balls. Absolute star performer is Bonaventura who tries with a shot deflected by Milinkovic Savic for a corner. The Italian removes Amrabat and inserts Jovic, also advancing Gonzalez in a sort of ultra-offensive line-up which will then also see the entry of Barak. He is unbalanced, normal who is like this. But Turin closes the spaces well and pays attention to the point. In the 65th minute, Venuti’s cross from the right sent Ikonè, who headed just wide. Only at the end Jovic has a good ball but fails to score. And Turin celebrates. He hadn’t won at the Franchi for 47 years, it was 1976.

Fiorentina-Turin match sheet

Fiorentina (4-2-3-1): Terracciano 5.5 – Venuti 6, Milenkovic 5.5, Igor 5.5, Biraghi 5 (1′ st Terzic 5.5) – Amrabat 5 (10′ st Jovic 5), Duncan 5 (24′ st Barak 5.5) – Ikoné 5, Bonaventura 7 (42′ st Bianco sv), Saponara 5.5 (10′ st Gonzalez 5.5) – Kouamè 5.5. All. Italian 5.5.

Turin (3-4-2-1): Milinkovic 6.5 – Djidji 6.5 (27′ st Zima 6), Buongiorno 6.5, Rodriguez 6.5 – Singo 6, Adopo 6 (24′ st Linetty 6), Ricci 7, Vojvoda 6.5 – Miranchuk 7, Vlasic 6.5 – Seck 6.5 (36′ st Sanabria sv). All. Juric 7.

Referee: Dionysus 6.

Ammonites: Ricci, Saponara, Duncan and Sanabria.

Scorers: 32′ point Miranchuk.

Spectators: 29,281.