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Torino's season finale ended with a 1:1 draw with Siena eventhough Torino was the dominant side in this affair. Giuseppe Pancaro scored a Claudio De Sousa earn penalty to equalize.
Torino were having major problems with missing players. Claudio Cornacchio and Nikola Lazetic were banned, while Gianluca Comotto, Iacopo Balestri, Matteo Melara, Cristiano Lupatelli, Alessandro Rosina and Cedric Konan were injuried.
To end the season with a victory manager Tanel Tursk went to play with a Roberto Stellone & Elvis Abbruscato striking partnership.
Torino had a quick start to the match, Roberto Stellone's header scrambling back to the pitch from bar after a Stefano Fiore cross.
Dozen minutes later Elvis Abbruscato send a bomb over the Reggina net from around 25 metres.
Erjon Bogdani headed a set piece over at the other end of the pitch and then shot wide from the edge of the area.
Best chance of Siena came through a direct free-kick though. Andre Zuba had to make a flying save to keep out a Diego Souza shot straight towards far post.
Diego De Ascentis saw his long range shot deflected into hands of goalekeeper and Rinaudo sideneted at the other end of the pitch.
Though Elvis Abbruscato showed his worth as he went past quite a few Siena defenders before he saw his shot saved by goalkeeper Alex Manninger at near post.
At half-time Vitaly Denisov and Luis Figo joined the Torino party.
Mario Frick had the first shot of second half, but a central shot, that would've probably not even troubled Zuba, flew over the bar.
Frick made up for his mistake soon though, after getting a pass from Souza he unleashed a beast of a shot from 25 metres out that curled next to the post, leaving Zuba with no chance at all.
Claudio De Sousa then came on for disappointing Roberto Stellone while Abbruscato's deflected shot was pushed out for corner by Manninger.
Giuseppe Pancaro's great cross was headed just wide by Simone Barone as Torino was all out attack.
Soon it paid off though, young De Sousa did some tricks in the box and earnt a penalty after he was hacked down by a bunch of Siena defenders. Pancaro steped up and converted the shot under bar.
 Pancaro calmly sloted it home
De Sousa was then put through by a great long pass from Raffaele Schiavi, but his shot was saved at near post. Diego De Ascentis follow-up was also kept out by a spectacular jump from Alex Manninger.
Elvis Abbruscato squeezed himself through a bunch of challenges in the added minutes, but his shot ballooned over the bar.
Despite the slow finish at the end of the season which saw Torino try out many youngsters, the season had been finished with a 2nd place quite comfortably.
At the end of the game Torino fans run at the pitch to celebrate the fantastic return to Serie A with the players.
Torino: 1-Andre Zuba; 16-Giuseppe Pancaro  , 25-Marco Di Loreto, 2-Raffaele Schiavi, 18-A Obinze Ogbonna (45' 33-Vitaly Denisov); 15-Diego De Ascentis; 7-Stefano Fiore (45' 5-Luis Figo), 8-Simone Barone, 21-Simone Camolese; 19-Elvis Abbruscato, 11-Roberto Stellone (69' 44-Claudio De Sousa)
Cautioned  : None
Other Results
Cagliari 1-2 Parma
Fiorentina 1-0 Inter
Milan 2-0 Empoli
Udinese 1-2 Roma
Reggina 1-0 Palermo
Ascoli 3-1 Livorno
Atalanta 1-1 Messina
Catania 1-2 Sampdoria
Lazio 1-1 Chievo
Torino Position: 2nd
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