Serie A | Genoa 0-0 Torino: Fear wins at Marassi

There is still only one point separating these teams, as both Genoa and Torino seemed more intent on avoiding defeat than going for victory, but Patrick Vieira remains unbeaten.

The Grifone were coming off a 2-0 win away to 10-man Udinese, but Johan Vasquez was suspended, along with injured Caleb Ekuban, Koni De Winter, Jeff Ekhator and Ruslan Malinovskyi. The Toro crisis dragged on with one point from five rounds, as Ivan Ilic, Duvan Zapata, Zanos Savva, Perr Schuurs and Emirhan Ilkhan missed out.

See how it unfolded on the Liveblog.

Morten Frendrup’s strike was deflected over the bar from the edge of the area after a good Alessandro Zanoli run, but Torino had a huge chance on 39 minutes.

Che Adams floated in a cross from the right, as Antonio Sanabria failed to connect with the overhead kick, so Mergim Vojvoda volleyed it onto the far post from close range.

Genoa threatened too when Morten Thorsby lost his balance in a tussle with Gvidas Gineitis and was unable to bundle over the line from six yards.

Morten Frendrup fired straight at the goalkeeper and Yann Karamoh had a strike charged down within seconds of coming off the bench.

Samuele Ricci needed to time a sliding tackle perfectly to stop Zanoli’s counter-attack and Karamoh had the ball in the net on 89 minutes, but only after Saul Coco’s handling offence in the build-up.

The best Torino chance came in stoppages, Nicola Leali struggling in wet conditions to parry the Adrien Tameze snapshot.

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