Serie A | Torino 1-2 Cagliari: Super Semih Kilicsoy slalom is decisive

Alberto Paleari rushed off his line and brought down Riyad Idrissi inside the penalty area after eight minutes, but the Cagliari man was flagged offside. When VAR confirmed he was not offside, Paleari was saved by getting his hand to the ball just before crashing into the player, so there was no spot-kick.

The Sardinians threatened again with Idrissi’s back-heel flick sending Gianluca Gaetano clear, his angled drive just about smothered at the near post by Paleari.

Instead, Torino took the lead with their first genuine scoring opportunity. Elia Caprile did very well to rush off his line and block Giovanni Simeone clear on goal, but the striker had support from Che Adams who smartly rolled the loose ball across for on-rushing Nikola Vlasic to fire into the top corner. It was Vlasic’s fifth goal in the last six Serie A games.

Cagliari equalised on the stroke of half-time when a Gianluca Gaetano corner was flicked on by Luca Mazzitelli for Matteo Prati to prod over the line from six yards.

Semih Kilicsoy shinned the finish from just inside the area on Gaetano’s assist, but he made up for it with a sensational individual goal.

The Turkish talent gathered inside his own half, dribbled past three, cut inside a fourth and bent the finish into the far bottom corner with the inside of the left foot from the edge of the area.

Caprile pushed away the Adrian Ismajli header, then had his gloves stung by a Gvidas Gineitis screamer, while Emirhan Ilkhan fired straight at him after winning it back in midfield.

Simeone didn’t get enough power on the header at the near post from Niels Nkounkou’s cross, while Caprile fingertipped a Duvan Zapata header over the bar.

Toro did have the ball in the net in stoppages with a splendid Cyril Ngonge volley, but it didn’t count because Aboukhlal had already dragged it out of play before the cross.

Torino 1-2 Cagliari

Vlasic 28 (T), Prati 45 (C), Kilicsoy 66 (C)

27-12-2025 14:00 MatchDay 17 Olympic Grande Torino Stadium

Torino

Cagliari Live 1 - 2

Player statistic

1st half

Nikola Vlasic (Assist: Ché Adams)		27'
Nikola Vlasic		36'
		45'		Matteo Prati (Assist: Luca Mazzitelli)

2nd half

66'

Semih Kılıçsoy (Assist: Alessandro Deiola) Zakaria Aboukhlal 90+4'     Niels Nkounkou

90+2'     Torino Cagliari

Starting lineups

1 Alberto Paleari Goalkeeper 44

Ardian Ismajli Defender 13

Guillermo Maripán Defender 16

Marcus Pedersen Defender 80' 20

Valentino Lazaro Defender 68' 61

Adrien Tameze Midfielder 66 Gvidas Gineitis Midfielder 80' 32 Kristjan Asllani Midfielder 76' 10

Nikola Vlasic Midfielder 19

Ché Adams Attacker 68' 18

Giovanni Simeone Attacker 1

Elia Caprile Goalkeeper 28 Gabriele Zappa Defender 2 Marco Palestra Defender 3 Riyad Idrissi Defender 6

Sebastiano Luperto Defender 14

Alessandro Deiola Midfielder 10

Gianluca Gaetano Midfielder 68' 4

Luca Mazzitelli Midfielder 72' 16 Matteo Prati Midfielder 84' 8

Michel Adopo Midfielder 9 Semih Kılıçsoy Attacker

72'

Substitutes

34

Cristiano Biraghi Defender 81 Franco Israel Goalkeeper 14

Tino Anjorin Midfielder 22

Cesare Casadei Midfielder 21 Ali Dembélé Defender 15 Saba Sazonov Defender 71 Mihai Popa Goalkeeper 92 Alieu Njie Attacker 93 Mattia Pellini Defender 91

Duván Zapata Attacker 68' 25 Niels Nkounkou Defender 68' 26

Cyril Ngonge Attacker 76' 7

Zakaria Aboukhlal Midfielder 80' 6 Emirhan Ilkhan Midfielder 80' 20

Marko Rog Midfielder 30

Leonardo Pavoletti Attacker 31

Boris Radunović Goalkeeper 18 Alessandro Di Pardo Defender 24 Giuseppe Ciocci Goalkeeper 39 Andrea Cogoni Defender 23 Nicola Pintus Defender 37 Yael Trepy Attacker 94 Sebastiano Esposito Attacker 68' 21 Nicolò Cavuoti Midfielder 72' 29

Gennaro Borrelli Attacker 72' 33

Adam Obert Defender

84'