Torino's high number of goals conceded has a lot to do with the lack of linkage between several players at the back, with two of the current four main defenders, Bareka and Zampacosta, not the manager's starting line-up before the start of the season. The former took advantage of Brazil's poor form in the early league season, while the latter was only a substitute for Bruno Pérez until he moved to Roma in the winter window, but still missed a few games due to injury.

As for the two central defenders, Rossetti was originally one of the team's rotations, and Li Mudi's original plan was to use him, Moretti and Kastan to match according to the forward characteristics of different opponents, but after playing a few games and finding that the speed of Mo and Kastan was too slow, Rosettini, who had the highest agility, was more included in the starting list. As the current defensive commander of the team, Ranocchia has just joined in the winter, and there is still a lack of time to practice with his teammates, and the pressure faced in training is far less than that of real games, so he can only accept the reality that the back line will become a colander in a few more games.

Back in the playing field, after the restart, the visiting team began to strengthen the midfield scramble, and the area of the exchange of fire between the two sides was as far away as possible from the dangerous area of their own defense, and the home team naturally did not show weakness, and the game fell into a hand-to-hand combat with considerable intensity. Neither team was able to find a chance on the edge of the opposition box for more than a dozen minutes, with most of the attacks ending in wide crosses and long-range shots, and even with Valero's play-up, the Purple Lily's players looked in better form, but failed to create any decent chances.

However, when the referee gave Las Diarra and Benassi a yellow card in the 27th and 30th minutes respectively, the high-intensity pressing of the Torino team finally could not go on smoothly, and the initiative on the field was finally caught by Fiorentina. Li Mudi had to let his players retreat and wait for an opportunity to counter-attack, and only by using the numerical advantage could the home team's attack look less threatening.

In the 33rd minute, Tello's nimble movement nearly earned him a chance to take a solo shot, but Saponala's clever through ball was slightly touched by a desperate interceptor Ranocchia, who had to make a small adjustment to catch the ball, which also gave Rosstini time to run over to make up for it. In the end, under the pressure of the defenders, the winger from the Barcelona Academy kicked the ball into the side-netting in the near corner with a powerful shot, and Li Mudi on the sidelines gave a thumbs up to the former Inter captain who immediately chased back into the penalty area after getting up, praising his excellent performance.

However, the Red Bulls, who were suppressed in their own half and could only defend to the death, could not keep their goal and not concede again, and in the 38th minute, Valero assisted from a corner kick on the right, and Kalinic extended the score to 2-0 with a header about half a meter in front of the small penalty line. Torino's defenders were completely disrupted by the opposition's movements, leaving the 187-centimeter-tall Croatian centre-forward, who should have been the focus of the defence, to be the only one on his side when he jumped to attack, and was squeezed behind by the former. In the face of such a strong attack from close range, Joe Hart had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender unless the ball took the initiative to hit him.

Looking at the home team players celebrating in the field, Li Mudi could also shake his head helplessly again, this goal not only proved that his players still lacked tacit understanding, but also exposed the weakness of the long-standing header ability. Even with the addition of Ranocchia, the anti-altitude ability of the Torino team, especially the defenders, is still reassuring. Take left wingback Bareka as an example, he is already relatively tall in this position at a height of 1.83 meters, but his heading ability is displayed as 8 in the FM system, which is still a value that has been strengthened after more than half a season of training. Among the midfielders, Benassi and Baseli are also similar to him, both of whom are more than 1.82 meters tall, but their headers are so-so, and they may drop the chain at critical moments, and the coaching staff needs to work hard in this regard.

Shortly after Saponara brought him down to save Jesse's breakthrough and thus received the home side's first yellow card of the game, the referee blew the half-time whistle. The score on the big screen in the stadium gave the home fans a reason to celebrate, singing and waving flags to keep the atmosphere alive.

In the away team's locker room, Li Mudi began to arrange new tactics after cheering everyone up. Rossettini strained his hip muscles in the final moments of the first half, and after the team doctor temporarily judged the injury, it was better to be conservative, causing the veteran Moretti to rush to prepare for the warm-up and will be replaced before the kick-off. The Torino boss also made another substitution, replacing Farke with Febas to change the formation to 4-4-2, with four midfielders Lillas dragging back to play full-time midfielders, and the remaining three central midfielders standing in front of him to form a tandem of the team. The advantage of this is that you can better control the ball, so that the opponent can no longer suppress your own side as in the first half, and the combination of a high and a fast one on the front line (in fact, Belotti is not too high, and Jesse is not a fast horse in the traditional sense, but the former has outstanding heading ability, and the latter is also very good in the combination of man and ball in acceleration) can also bring a lot of pressure to the home team.

Sure enough, Fiorentina could not replicate the attacking momentum of the first half after the restart, and the Torino team, who had eight or nine players at the back (sometimes Belotti would come back to help tackle) had a large numerical advantage in their half, making it difficult for opponents to easily find good space to move the ball. The Spaniard, the only player in the visiting team who did not have to be involved in defence, was always between the halfway line and the home defence, ready to receive passes from the back, which posed a big threat to Fiorentina's two slow centre-backs.

In the 53rd minute, after a successful steal, Bareca drove a big foot to the left side of the front, but the landing point was not too good, and Jesse needed to run a little far, and was finally cleared out of the sideline by the Mexican right-back Salcedo. However, the Torino players, who had found the opponent's weakness, already knew it, and they began to deliberately choose other attacking means to paralyze the opponent, and finally launched a long-planned attack in the 59th minute. Russ intercepted Croatian midfielder Badergi's pass at the top of the box and fed it to Benasi, who dribbled forward to attract the attention of the home side, and Zampacosta sent a long ball straight to find Hesse in front of him. He used his speed to get past Astori and then into the box, where another centre-back, Gonzalo Rodriguez, made contact and the referee immediately stopped the game and signalled it as a penalty.

After a symbolic statement from the Fiorentina players, Belotti, who leads the league scorers' charts, stood behind the penalty spot, ran after the whistle blew and slammed the ball into the middle of the net. Who knew that the home team's goalkeeper Tetrusanu actually judged the purpose of the red bebe, uh...... Or maybe he didn't make a timely decision on which way to save, but he just waited and slammed the ball to the side with both fists, and the ball was cleared off by the home defenders. Torino missed the golden opportunity to close the gap, with Belotti missing a penalty again after the first round of the league and regret spread across the faces of the visiting players and coaches.

However, the missed penalty did not completely break the Torino, as they made a comeback after blocking two of the home side's attacks, and the possession advantage of the three central midfielders finally came to fruition, completing a sixteen-foot pass to win a corner on their own right. Zampacosta kicked off to the back post and was pushed back into the middle by Baseli, Ranocchia relayed a header to the right post, Moretti risked a muscle strain and raised his right foot high to hook the ball back into the middle before it was about to go off the line, and the unmarked Belotti in the six-yard box immediately shook his head to score. The Fiorentina goalkeeper has been dazzled by the trajectory of the ball changing positions several times, and he stayed close to the post to block Moretti's shot from a tight angle. 2-1, the two sides reversed the situation in the first 45 minutes in the second half, and the Red Bulls, who had a better chance, finally managed to score a goal, making the final result full of suspense again.

After the score was rewritten, Paulo Sousa, who was very unhappy with the situation, began to make changes to the line-up, replacing Carlos Sanchez and Saponara with Serbian defender Tomovic and Uruguayan midfielder Sebastián Cristóforo, pushing Valero into the midfield position. On the surface, it doesn't look like a change in formation, but Cristoforo is the kind of central midfielder who is stronger defensively than attacking, so after the adjustment, the home team still significantly strengthened the intensity of the tackle at the back, and it seems that the Portuguese still prefer to hold on to the current scoreline, of course, it would be better if they could score another goal.

However, the Torino players, who had already played morale, seemed to have been transformed, and the lack of concentration that had always displeased the manager was completely gone, and although Fiorentina had two shots in succession, the quality was not high under the strict defense of the visiting team, and only a few numbers were added to the statistics. As the game wore on, the fitness of the players gradually deteriorated, and the visitors, who were united to equalise, naturally took the initiative, and instead suppressed the home team in their half, which was a stark contrast to the first half.

In the 82nd minute, Barreka's cross flew towards the front post, and Tomovic made a mistake in judgment when he was fighting for a header with Belotti, and the ball touched his arm that jumped too early and changed the line, causing the red babe behind him to miss the chance to grab the spot. However, this time, the handball in the penalty area was not punished as it should be, and even many away players appealed but did not shake the referee's determination, and the Red Bulls could only accept the cruel fact that a penalty was hacked.

In the 85th minute, the Torino team, who never gave up hope, finally reaped the fruits of their tenacity and perseverance, and after forming a siege in the opposition half, they played a series of passes around the edge of the penalty area. Baseli took a step from inside the middle of the box and sent a lob to the back post, where the onboard Belotti fired home with a right-footed arch between the goalkeeper and a defender. 2-2, the perseverance of the Bulls won the admiration of fans all over the world.

In the following time, in the face of the Purple Lily, who had completely lost the idea of attacking, the Torino team finally failed to stage a big reversal and completed the closing game of the 26th round of Serie A this season with a draw. Although Fiorentina were statistically leading the game, anyone who watched the game knew that both sides played a good half, and the visitors actually had more great chances. If that penalty had been scored, if that handball in the box had been awarded, maybe they would have beaten Fiorentina home and away, but there are no ifs in football......

In his post-match press conference, the Torino boss praised his players, saying that their resilience and fighting spirit showed the quality of a top team today, and if they can be maintained, the team will have a good chance of achieving the goals set before the season. Belotti, who missed a hat-trick, regretted missing the penalty, and although his brace in the game extended his lead in the scorers' charts, it was a shame that the team could not come back to win all three points, and he even joked that he might not consider taking the penalty in the future.

On the home side, the failure to win this dominant matchup has also made Fiorentina coach Paulo Sousa's position begin to falter, and the current Atalanta is as low as nine points behind fifth-place Atalanta, even sixth-placed Torino is six points ahead of them, combined with the less favourable schedule after that, it can be said that the Purple Lilies have fallen behind in the race for European qualification. And if there is no major reversal in the rest of the game, then the former midfield superstar of Portugal's golden generation, whose contract expires this summer, will most likely have to think about his next job. In the face of questions raised by reporters, Sapoñara, who has just joined the team, said that the whole team will support the manager, although the result of the game is disappointing, Fiorentina will not give up hope of participating in next season's Europa League, and they will do their best to face every opponent in the future.