Next will be the 36th meeting between Parma and Torino in Serie A: the Emiliani (15) have won more than twice as many challenges as the Piedmontese (seven), with 13 draws completing the tally. Among the teams faced more than 20 times in the top league, the Granata are the second against which the Gialloblù boast the lowest percentage of defeats in the tournament (20 percent, worse only than the 12 percent recorded against Lecce).
Parma has not won against Torino in Serie A for four matches (2N, 2P – last success against the granata on Sept. 30, 2019, 3-2 at home) and has not scored in any of the last three; only once in their history have the Ducali gone without a goal for multiple consecutive matches against this opponent in the tournament: in the first five ever comparisons in the competition between December 1990 and September 1992 (4N, 1P).
After a run of five losses in a row at home to Parma, Torino has lost only one of its last four matches at the Tardini in Serie A (2V, 1N); notably, after their 3-0 win on January 3, 2021, the granata could win two matches in a row at home to the Ducali in the top league for the first time in their history.
In the first eight games of the return leg of this championship, on the one hand Parma has had only one success (1N, 6P), while on the other hand Torino has suffered only one defeat (3V, 4N).
After the home success in the Emilian derby against Bologna on Feb. 22 (2-0 signed Bonny and Sohm), Parma could string together two consecutive home wins in the top league for the first time since January 2020 (2-0 against both Lecce and Udinese in that case).
After successes against AC Milan (2-1 at home) and Monza (2-0 away), Torino could win three games in a row in a single Serie A championship for the first time since the period between February and March 2019.
Only AC Milan (70) has made more direct attacks than Parma (56) in this Serie A, understood as sequences on action started in their own half, with at least 50 percent of movements forward and ended with a shot or touch inside the opponent’s area. On the other hand, only Hellas Verona (3396) has made fewer vertical passes than Torino (3490) in the current tournament.
Torino is the slowest gaining team in this Serie A: the granata advance an average of 1.54 meters per second during their own sequences on league action. On the other hand, only Cagliari (2.03 m/s) moves forward faster than Parma (1.99 m/s) when in possession of the ball.
Ange-Yoan Bonny – five goals to his credit in the league for the 2003 class – is one of only four players born from January 1, 2003 onward to have scored at least five goals in this Serie A, along with Assane Diao (five goals, 2005), Nico Paz (six goals, 2004) and Santiago Castro (seven goals, 2004). The only French player to surpass five goals in the Italian top league before turning 22 was Paul Pogba, who scored his sixth goal in the tournament on Sept. 29, 2013 just against Torino, at the age of 20 years and 198 days.
After goals against Bologna and Monza, Eljif Elmas could score for three consecutive away matches for the first time in his career in Europe’s top five leagues. Since his debut in a granata jersey on Feb. 14, he is the only one among Torino’s players with more than one goal to his credit (two) and no one has sent a teammate to the goal more times (five, tied with Nikola Vlasic).
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