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 Catania - Torino 24th of February 2008 Angelo Massimilo, Cibali, Catania Italian Serie A 2007/2008; Week 24     8'  18'  Elvis Abbruscato, 26' Nicolae Mitea, 41' Nikola Lazetic  Match Highlights (2:12)
Torino got back to winning ways despite Elvis Abbruscato's stupid red card ten minutes after scoring the opener as the Turin side beat Catania 3:0. Alessandro Rosina returned in final twenty minutes.
Torino was under several problems heading to the match with Catania as coming from two consecutive draws they were in need of a victory. Job wasn't made easier as Alessandro Rosina couldn't make it to the starting line-up as originally planned and Silva suffered a virus takedown after the Chievo Verona game. So he joined Simone Barone and Andrea Mei in the sidelines.
Despite that, it was Torino who got the lead eight minutes into the game. Alessandro Di Natale's corner kick was headed in by Elvis Abbruscato for his 18th league goal of the season.
Though ten minutes later, striker really suffered a huge blow to his Capocannioniere race where he was leading with one goal prior to this week. Former-Arezzo star elbowed Catania's central defender Juhasz in the face and got sent off as a longer ban is likely to follow.
Eight minutes later, Simone Padoin earned a free-kick from central position, twenty-five metres from Catania goal and Nicolae Mitea steped up in his first ever Torino start. Romanian sent a wonderful effort curling towards the far corner and it cliped in from the post for a wonderful goal.
 Mitea scored a fabolous first ever Torino goal
At the other end, Juhasz header from Vargas corner was tipped over by Grohe for another tie of Catania as nothing came out of it. Instead Mattia Biso bursted over from good position several minutes later.
Torino didn't seem to be bothered by the extra player of Catania and really sealed the game at the end of the half. Nikola Lazetic intercepted a pass and ran from half-way line and shrugged off several challenges to sent a wonderful strike towards the far top corner, nearly 30 metres from goal and Federico Vilar couldn't do anything to stop it.
At start of the second half, Marco Andreolli kept Umberto Del Core on bay with a brilliant last ditch tackle as the boring half got a little better when Alessandro Rosina returned from a long injury break for Antonio Di Natale who was playing behind strikers today. Cedric Konan also came in to add pace to Granata attack.
It almost bringed a result immediatelly. Rosina robbed the ball in midfield and Padoin's pass saw Cedric Konan go on a quick run behind the defenders. Eventhough Vilar could slap the ball from the feet of Konan, it fell to Padoin whose shot from the edge of the area flew over.
Umberto Del Core's long range effort didn't really shake no-one on the pitch and the 3-0 win continued Torino's run on the frontline of Serie A.
Torino: 1-Marcelo Grohe; 4-Marco Andreolli, 5-Gabriel Tamas, 2-Raffaele Schiavi, 6-Marco Pisano; 36-Nicolae Mitea, 12-Simone Padoin, 17-Nikola Lazetic; 13-Antonio Di Natale (69' 10-Alessandro Rosina); 11-Roberto Stellone (69' 20-Cedric Konan), 19-Elvis Abbruscato
Cautioned  : None
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Torino Position: 1st
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