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  Torino - Parma 13th of May 2007 Stadio Olimpico, Turin Italian Serie A 2006/2007 - Week 36     45'  Nikola Lazetic - 28' 48' Domenico Morfeo
Two blunders got a young Torino side a second consecutive loss as Domenico Morfeo scored a brace for Parma.
Torino went for a youthful side for this encounter without no pressure. Alessandro Rosina was injuried, so Diego De Ascentis took the defensive midfielder position, while Barone moved up foward to fill in the place of Rosina.
Young central defender Claudio Cornacchia, striker Claudio De Sousa were on the starting line up, while Simone Camolese & A Obinze Ogbonna were part of the few youths on bench.
Match started with Cristiano Lupatelli pushing over an Igor Budan header, as Parma was one of his ex-employees.
Then Budan had another shot, but a bomb from the edge of the area flew wide of the post.
Though Parma did get their goal, young Cornacchia had little positioning problem, though it wasn't entirely his fault. A very slow pass somehow got through the Torino defence line and Domenico Morfeo got a bit lucky touch at the ball, as Lupatelli did nothing to stop a shot which really wasn't from a Roberto Carlos foot.
Elvis Abbruscato got the first chance for Torino, but his shot on angle was saved.
Torino managed to equalize just before the half-time break, Claudio Cornacchia cross found Abbruscato who threaded through for a Nikola Lazetic tap in at far post.
 Lazetic has scored many goals and given loads of assists despite being out of many games
Igor Budan couldn't restore Parma's lead with a last kick of the half as he curled the ball over from 25 meters.
At half-time left-back A Obinze Ogbonna joined the game for Giuseppe Pancaro, but Torino was soon behind again.
Cristiano Lupatelli stupidly ran out in a rather innocent situation, allowing Morfeo to send the ball into empty net from the edge of the area.
 Morfeo got his second one easily
Simone Camolese got a try-out for Stefano Fiore and Ivan Francheschini replaced fellow central defender Marco Di Loreto.
Abbruscato failed to turn in a Claudio De Sousa set-up play at the near post as more bad news came to Torino with Gianluca Comotto coming of injuried, leaving Toro with ten men.
De Sousa shot from free-kick went over and so did Nikola Lazetic's lob before the referee whistled for the game to be ended.
Torino is set to try out youngsters in the remaining games of the season too with second place secured.
Torino: 1-Cristiano Lupatelli; 3-Gianluca Comotto, 44-Claudio Cornacchia, 25-Marco Di Loreto (62' 14-Ivan Francheschini), 16-Giuseppe Pancaro (45' 18-A Obinze Ogbonna); 15-Diego De Ascentis; 7-Stefano Fiore (21-Simone Camolese), 8-Simone Barone, 17-Nikola Lazetic ; 19-Elvis Abbruscato, 44-Claudio De Sousa
Cautioned  : None
Other Results
Ascoli 1-0 Messina
Atalanta 0-0 Palermo
Cagliari 0-3 Inter
Catania 4-0 Siena
Chievo V. 3-1 Empoli
Fiorentina 1-0 Udinese
Lazio 0-1 Sampdoria
Milan 1-1 Livorno
Reggina 0-6 Roma
Torino Position: 2nd |
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