Duván Zapata

Striker - Torino
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Duván Zapata

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The Torino Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Matteo Prati runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 58. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Cup progress for Torino

A 2‑1 win over Lecco, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

Alieu Njie wins it after the whistle should have gone

102 minutes played. Alieu Njie found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Lecco went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

A brace, and Zakaria Aboukhlal takes the afternoon — 8.42

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Zakaria Aboukhlal provided it, and the 8.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Alieu Njie, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97

A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Giovanni Simeone wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Torino hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Che Adams in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

AS Roma take the points off Torino

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Alieu Njie

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

Back issues
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The Torino Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Torino throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with AC Milan the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Torino will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

Giovanni Simeone scores twice — 7.98

Two goals and a mark of 7.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Franco Israel keeps Torino in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Torino

Che Adams was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Torino are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

A bad afternoon for Torino against AC Milan

3‑4 to AC Milan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Michael Zeppieri is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Duván Zapata gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Giovane runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief