Torino will welcome Cremonese to Stadio Olimpico di Torino this Monday for the 23rd round of the 2022/23 Serie A season.
Torino come into this tie on the back of a narrow 1-0 loss to AC Milan away from home. However, a quick glance at the table might indicate that Torino is on the verge of breaking into Serie A’s top six.
However, they also start this round nine points adrift of sixth place. So, they still have a long way to go to achieve their aim.
Ahead of this tie, they will fancy their chances of registering a sixth straight successive Serie A win against newly-promoted opposition for the first time since 1950.
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Cremonese offers the perfect opportunity for Torino to record a win here as they are still looking for their first league win after 22 rounds of Serie A matches (D8, L14). The visitors are the only side in Europe’s ‘Big Five’ leagues without a win this season.
Only two sides in Serie A history have ever failed to notch a win after 23 games, with both those teams predictably going on to finish bottom of the table, a record which makes grim reading for Cremonese fans.
But having won both Napoli and Roma in the Coppa Italia recently, they will still fancy their chances of getting a win in the league. They could do so against an inconsistent Torino side that has recorded just two wins from their last eight league matches (D4, L2).
Meanwhile, Torino is the only SA side not to have scored or conceded in the opening 15 minutes of a home league game this season, so we might not see an early goal in this game.
But we can expect a low-scoring affair that will feature Under 2.5 goals.
