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 Siena - Torino 9th of March 2008 Artemio Franchi, Siena Italian Serie A 2007/2008; Week 27     6'  Albert Streit - 1' Roberto Stellone, 80' 85' Cedric Konan  Match Highlights
Substitute Cedric Konan was Torino's savour in another wet thriller againist Siena as the Ivorian hit two goals in last ten minutes to bring Torino a 3:1 win.
Torino's situation wasn't much better than in last weeks as Elvis Abbruscato, Simone Barone, Silva, Andrea Mei and Antonio Di Natale missed out the trip to Tuscany to play relegation fighting Siena.
Some positive news after Sampdoria loss came at the left wing though as Marco Pisano returned to defence after two weeks out with a broken nose. Cacau was handed a surprise start.
Torino's game got off to a dream start when bad header of Dindeleux flew behind his own defence and Roberto Stellone picked it up, moved central and sent the ball on it's way towards the far post for a very nice finish.
Though Siena put on immediate pressure and Erjon Bogdani's header from Konko's cross flew over the bar.
Minute later Siena got what their pressure was meant to get as Bogdani's brilliant pass set up Albert Streit who brilliantly used Marcelo Grohe's bad decision to come out and sent a low finish in at the near post from the edge of the area.
Bogdani's size was unmatched in Torino defence and the marksman again got a header from free-kick with twenty minutes gone, but luckily for the visitors, he headed wide.
Vincent Candela shot over from the edge of the area minutes later after cutting in from the left wing and Bogdani again headed over Konko's cross less than a minute later.
Marcelo Grohe parried a nice, but central, shot of Simone Vergassola from 25 metres as Alessandro Rosina shot a volley wide of the goal, but it would've not counted anyway as the attacking midfielder was in offside position when recieving the ball.
Torino started to get back into the match at the end of the half as Nicolae Mitea's free-kick was headed over at near post by Cacau, but Torino's plans got another hit when Simone Padoin limped off injuried and Lionel Mathis joined the game.
Konko and Mathis had shots go over at either end of the pitch, but Mitea got closest to the goal in first half, when his powerful shot from nice angle was brilliantly saved by Miguel Angel Moya in Siena's goal.
Streit also missed a great chance as he shot wide in middle of the area, ten metres from goal from Gorasz Zajc cross.
Second half started almost with Alessandro Rosina own-goal as the midfielder didn't see where Marcelo Grohe is while making the back-pass and luckily for him, his pass just sidenetted the goal and Siena had to limit themselves with a corner.
Rosina sent a free-kick high and wide minutes later at other end while Cedric Konan came in for Cacau.
Konan made an immediate impact when he got one on one thanks to a long pass of Marco Andreolli, but saw his effort saved.
Minutes later Stefano Fiore replaced disappointing Nikola lazetic while Zajc shot over from central position.
Both goalkeepers, Grohe and Moya, made brilliant save on Albert Streit's and Gabriel Tamas headers respectively, while Roberto Stellone's central shot was also saved after he was left free in area to recieve a throw-in from Stefano Fiore.
In 80th minute Torino finally got a goal as they started pressing in final minutes. Konan was left without proper marking in the area and he was found by an Andreolli pass as he buried it to far post.
Two minutes later, horrible goal-kick of Moya saw Rosina go one on one with him, but the former U21 international shot wide.
Bogdani shot over from 23 metres capping off a quick move of Siena, but they were lucky minute later when Cedric Konan ran behind defenders again to send Gabriel Tamas pass againist the woodwork one on one with Moya.
Seconds later though the ball had reached Stefano Fiore in the wing as the international crossed for Konan to head it in at near post and secure the three points.
Bogdani's header at near post was catched while Rosina shot over from edge of the area as Torino won 3:1 and continue with a two point lead at the top of the tight Serie A table.
Torino: 1-Marcelo Grohe; 4-Marco Andreolli, 5-Gabriel Tamas, 2-Raffaele Schiavi, 6-Marco Pisano; 17-Nikola Lazetic (67' 7-Stefano Fiore), 12-Simone Padoin (39' 24-Lionel Mathis), 36-Nicolae Mitea; 10-Alessandro Rosina; 11-Roberto Stellone, 9-Cacu (57' 20-Cedric Konan)
Cautioned  : None
Other Results
Ascoli 2:0 Palermo
Catania 1:1 Chievo
Empoli 2:0 Messina
Fiorentina 0:1 Roma
Lazio 3:0 Parma
Milan 1:2 Bologna
Sampdoria 2:0 Inter
Juventus 2:0 Napoli
Udinese 1:0 Atalanta
Torino Position: 1st
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