Torino v Sassuolo Match Preview, 3/17/21

Match Facts

1. Sassuolo have drawn six games in Serie A against Torino since 2015 (W2 L4), against no other team have they drawn more league matches in this period.
2. Torino have drawn none of their seven home games against Sassuolo in Serie A, winning five of these matches, including each of the last four (L2).
3. Torino have kept a clean sheet in consecutive Serie A games for the first time since January 2020, last keeping three in a row back in March 2019 (6).
4. Torino have drawn each of their last five home games in Serie A, their longest such streak in the competition; the last side to draw six consecutive home matches was SPAL in 2019.
5. Sassuolo have scored at least one goal in each of their last 13 league games, their longest such run in a single Serie A season; the last side from Emilia Romagna to do better was Parma in 2003 (14).
6. Only Torino (11) have drawn more games than Sassuolo (8) in Serie A this term.
7. Sassuolo have scored 73% (27/37) of their goals in the second half of games in Serie A this season, the highest ratio in 2020-21 - while no side has scored more goals than Sassuolo in injury time so far (4).
8. Davide Nicola is the third Torino boss to remain unbeaten in each of his first five games in Serie A in the three points per win era, after Walter Mazzarri and Franco Scoglio, who both lost their sixth match.
9. Torino’s last six home goals in Serie A have all been netted after the 65th minute, from five different scorers.
10. Francesco Caputo is one of only four players to have scored 10+ goals in each of the last three Serie A seasons, alongside Belotti, Ronaldo and Immobile - the Sassuolo striker has found the net in each of his last three games, having scored just one goal in his previous six.