Nico Paz's late double rescues Como from Torino collapse
Como overturned a first-half deficit at Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, with Nico Paz and Martin Baturina scoring in the final minutes to complete a 3-1 comeback despite Torino's dominant start.
Como came from behind to beat Torino 3-1 at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, with Jacobo Ramon, Nico Paz and Martin Baturina all scoring inside the final eleven minutes, Football Italia reported.
Torino had led since the 24th minute through Che Adams, who turned in a low cross from Kian Fitz-Jim after Fitz-Jim won the ball off Jacobo Ramon as Como tried to play out from the back.
That moment of pressing success summed up Torino's first-half approach. They sat deeper without the ball but looked to force errors in Como's buildup, and for an hour it worked.
Como still had the better of the territory throughout, finishing the match with 72 per cent possession to Torino's 28, and outshooting the hosts 18 to 11, according to the match statistics carried by Football Italia.
That kind of field tilt does not guarantee goals, and for long periods Como's problem was conversion rather than creation. Both sides managed five shots on target, a reminder that total shot count overstates Como's superiority on the night.
Chances came and went before the breakthrough
Torino had the better openings in the opening exchanges beyond the opening goal. Rafik Belghali's angled drive was parried by Robert Sanchez, and Como had a penalty appeal waved away when Lucas Da Cunha was caught on the ankle by Daniel Braganca after a Nico Paz through ball, with VAR declining to intervene.
Como's forward players then squandered several openings of their own. Anastasios Douvikas saw a finish squirm under Lucas Perri, Jacobo Ramon's close-range header was well handled, and Da Cunha drilled narrowly wide of the near post.
Maxence Caqueret struck the crossbar from a tight angle on 54 minutes, and the pattern repeated when Martin Baturina's cross-shot bounced back off the woodwork later in the half. Torino had their own route back into the game on the counter, with Giovanni Simeone's header palmed onto the bar from a corner after a quick transition started by Belghali.
Pietro Comuzzo also nearly turned a Yan Couto cross into his own net, forcing Perri into a stretching save. None of it changed the scoreline, and with twenty minutes left Torino still held their lead.
Nico Paz turned territory into goals
The equaliser arrived through the kind of patient, possession-based approach Como had sustained all evening. Nico Paz swung a cross to the back post in the 81st minute, and Jacobo Ramon cushioned a header past Perri from close range.
Paz then turned provider into scorer. After drilling one effort narrowly wide, he met a Yan Couto cross from the right with a header in the 87th minute to put Como ahead for the first time.
Torino had no response. In second-half stoppage time, Martin Baturina pressed a tiring Nikola Vlasic into a mistake on the edge of the box, shrugged off the challenge and swept the ball past Perri from ten yards to complete the scoreline at 3-1.
The sequence captured how the match turned: a Torino side that had controlled key moments with directness and a sharp early press lost control of those same duels as fatigue set in, while Como's sustained possession eventually found the gaps it had been missing for an hour.
Context behind the result
Como arrived carrying a heavy injury list, with Moise Kean, Mattia Liberali, Jesus Rodriguez, Assane Diao and Trevoh Chalobah all unavailable, as reported by Football Italia. They had also just beaten Manchester United 4-1 in the Champions League.
Torino had won their previous three Serie A matches before this one but were missing Rolando Mandragora, Niccolo Fortini, Ricardo Rodriguez and Franco Israel. The defeat halts that winning run and leaves questions over how the side manages games once the initial defensive intensity fades.
For Como, the win extends a run of results built on territorial control, with matchday nine data showing a side capable of dominating the ball for long stretches even when the scoreline initially goes against it.