Mandragora haunts his old club as Torino come from behind to beat Fiorentina 2-1

Two clubs with zero points after two rounds met at the Artemio Franchi, and only one of them left with any. Torino beat Fiorentina 2-1, and the man who did the early damage had a Fiorentina badge on his shirt just days earlier.

Mateo Pellegrino gave the hosts the lead just after the break — Fiorentina's first league goal of the 2026-27 season — but Rolando Mandragora, who joined Torino from Fiorentina days before this game, equalised on 74', and Ché Adams completed the turnaround on 82' for a 2-1 win. 🟤

Pellegrino finally gets Fiorentina off the mark

It had been a miserable start to the season for Fabio Grosso's side, who arrived here having lost 4-0 to Roma and 3-0 at home to Frosinone without scoring once. Pellegrino ended that run early in the second half, finishing from distance for a goal that briefly looked like the platform for a first win of the campaign.

Mandragora and Adams turn it around

Torino, level with Fiorentina on zero points coming in, hit back through two of their close-season arrivals. Mandragora — fresh from his move away from Florence, alongside fellow ex-Viola players Pietro Comuzzo and Niccolò Fortini — levelled it on 74', and Ché Adams put Torino ahead for good on 82', sealing their first points and first win of the season.

Match facts

• 48' — Mateo Pellegrino (Fiorentina)
• 74' — Rolando Mandragora (Torino)
• 82' — Ché Adams (Torino)
• Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence — Serie A matchday 3, Saturday 5 September 2026

What's next

Torino climb to 13th on 3 points after their first win of the season. Fiorentina stay bottom of the table on zero points from three straight defeats, sitting in the relegation zone. Both sides are next in action after the international break, for matchday 4 — a first win still to find for Grosso's side, who at least now have a goal on the board.

The defeat that cost Grosso his job

This loss carried more weight than a normal matchday 3 result. It was Fiorentina's third straight defeat of the season, and the club moved immediately after the final whistle, sacking Fabio Grosso. Paolo Vanoli, back in Florence for a second spell in charge, was appointed in his place. The Franchi crowd that watched Pellegrino's goal wiped out inside twenty minutes did not know it yet, but this was the last match of the Grosso era.

Contrasting paths since

Vanoli's first game in the dugout, away at Venezia on matchday 4, produced a 4-2 win built on a Franco Mastantuono hat-trick — two of the goals scored inside a single minute — after Fiorentina had trailed. A 1-1 draw at home to Napoli followed on matchday 5. Two results, two points from a possible six, but a side that had gone three games without scoring before the Torino match has since found the net five times in two.

Torino's form since the win in Florence has been quieter: a 0-2 home defeat to Roma on matchday 4, then a 1-1 draw away at Bologna on matchday 5. The three points taken off Fiorentina remain the only win either club has managed since the opening weekend for Torino, whose only victory of the campaign so far is still this one.

Where the table stands now

Five matchdays in, Fiorentina and Torino carry an identical record — one win, one draw, three losses, four points each — and it is goal difference that separates them. Fiorentina sit 17th with 6 goals scored and 12 conceded, a goal difference of -6, one place and two points above the relegation zone. Torino are 14th with 5 scored and 8 conceded, a difference of -3, comfortably clear of the bottom three for now. The same points tally, arrived at from opposite defensive results, has put the two clubs that met at the Franchi three places apart in the table.