Serie A | Sassuolo 0-1 Torino: In-form Vlasic punishes Doig shocker

Torino came close to claiming a first-half lead after Arijanet Muric spilled Vlasic’s shot from the edge of the area. Che Adams fired off target on the rebound, but drew a foul in the area from international colleague Doig in the process. 

A penalty was originally awarded, but a VAR check deemed that Torino’s Tameze had fouled Namanja Matic in the process, and the decision was overturned. 

Doig was let off once more in the first half when he lost out to Marcus Holmgren Pedersen on the edge of the area. Pedersen provided a great cross for Duvan Zapata at the far post, but the Colombian flashed over the bar with his first-time effort. 

It turned out to be an afternoon to forget for Doig, who gave away another penalty by bringing down Giovanni Simeone with a clumsy challenge in the corner of the area.

There was no VAR let-off for the Scotsman on this occasion, as Vlasic stepped up to dispatch the spot-kick into the bottom left corner of the net. 

The Croatian has now scored in three consecutive matches and has six goal involvements from his last five outings in Serie A.

Today’s result brings Torino up to 12th place in the Serie A table. They are one point behind Sassuolo, who remain in ninth place on 21. Both sides could still be overtaken by Atalanta should they beat Genoa away from home later on Sunday evening.

Sassuolo 0-1 Torino

Vlasic 66’.

21-12-2025 14:00 MatchDay 16 Mapei Stadium - Città del Tricolore

Sassuolo

Torino Live 0 - 0 Sassuolo Torino

Starting lineups

49

Arijanet Muric Goalkeeper 21 Jay Idzes Defender 3

Josh Doig Defender 6

Sebastian Walukiewicz Defender 80

Tarik Muharemovic Defender 40

Aster Vranckx Midfielder 7 Cristian Volpato Midfielder 90

Ismaël Koné Midfielder 18

Nemanja Matic Midfielder 45

Armand Lauriente Attacker 9

Walid Cheddira Attacker 1 Alberto Paleari Goalkeeper 44

Ardian Ismajli Defender 13

Guillermo Maripán Defender 16

Marcus Pedersen Defender 20

Valentino Lazaro Defender 61

Adrien Tameze Midfielder 66 Gvidas Gineitis Midfielder 32 Kristjan Asllani Midfielder 10

Nikola Vlasic Midfielder 19

Ché Adams Attacker 91

Duván Zapata Attacker

Substitutes

12

Giacomo Satalino Goalkeeper 16 Gioele Zacchi Goalkeeper 13 Stefano Turati Goalkeeper 24 Luca Moro Attacker 44 Edoardo Iannoni Midfielder 77 Nicholas Pierini Attacker 5

Fali Candé Defender 26 Cas Odenthal Defender 35 Luca Lipani Midfielder 20 Alieu Fadera Midfielder 34

Cristiano Biraghi Defender 81 Franco Israel Goalkeeper 18

Giovanni Simeone Attacker 8

Ivan Ilić Midfielder 14

Tino Anjorin Midfielder 7

Zakaria Aboukhlal Midfielder 6 Emirhan Ilkhan Midfielder 22

Cesare Casadei Midfielder 21 Ali Dembélé Defender 26

Cyril Ngonge Attacker 15 Saba Sazonov Defender 71 Mihai Popa Goalkeeper 25 Niels Nkounkou Defender 92

Alieu Njie Attacker