Match Report – AS Roma V Torino – 14th September 2025
On 14 September 2025 by Gillyowl
AS Roma 0 – 1 Torino
Giovanni Simeone’s once-in-a-lifetime curler nicked Torino an unlikely victory at the Olimpico, as Roma dominated for long spells and were undone only by a wonder goal.
The Giallorossi came in confident after two straight 1-0 wins over Pisa and Bologna, finally giving Paulo Dybala his first start in a more advanced role. Evan Ferguson and Artem Dovbyk got a breather, Leon Bailey is still side lined, but Wesley returned fit. Torino, meanwhile, arrived off the back of a 5-0 hammering by Inter and a dreary 0-0 with Fiorentina.
From the off, Roma dictated the tempo. Mile Svilar was sharp when called upon, Mancini had Israel scrambling with a header, and Dybala almost slipped clear after a delicious Matias Soulé through ball. Roma’s movement was crisp, Torino’s defence already creaking.
At half-time, Gasperini turned up the pressure with Ferguson joining the fray. The Irishman combined with Soulé to tee up Baldanzi, who was inches wide, then went close himself from a Wesley assist. Roma were swarming, the Olimpico buzzing.
Then came the sucker punch. Against the run of play, and with Torino barely having had a sniff, Cholito Simeone pulled something outrageous out of his boots — skinning Manu Koné on the flank, playing a one-two with Ngonge, and curling into the top corner. His first Serie A goal in over a year, of course — typical that it arrives with his team pinned in their own half. The Giallorossi’s perfect defensive record was broken not by a crafted move, but by a lottery-ticket strike.
Roma, undeterred, pushed harder. Soulé almost answered immediately with his own curler, inches wide. Svilar then proved the hero again, denying Aboukhlal from point-blank and clawing away a Vlasic daisy-cutter. Without him, Torino would’ve been gifted goals they never earned.
As the minutes ticked away, Roma laid siege to the Torino box. Mancini’s effort was smothered, Pisilli’s header was straight at Israel, and deep into stoppages Soulé’s half-volley kissed past the far post. El Shaarawy, ever the showman, tried an acrobatic volley that Franco Israel did well to smother.
In truth, Torino spent most of the second half camped in their own area praying for the whistle. Roma had the play, the chances, and the spirit — Torino had a single wonder strike and 11 men behind the ball. Nights like this sting, but the Olimpico faithful know: keep playing this way, and the Giallorossi will send plenty of buses back north empty-handed.
Giovanni Pablo Simeone Baldini
Torino Forward
