The Delfini are suffering one of the worst seasons of any club in Serie A history, a rout at Torino coming fresh off an arson attack at their president’s house
Sixty-five seconds. That was all it took for Pescara to start unravelling at Torino’s Stadio Olimpico. A pair of defenders failed to prevent Antonio Barreca sending a cross over from the left, a third was outjumped inside the box by Marco Benassi and two more lunged hopelessly after Iago Falqué as he pounced on the loose ball and drove it into the roof of the net.
Within 15 minutes, Torino had trebled their lead. It was 5-0 by the 61st. Pescara’s manager, Massimo Oddo, tucked himself into a corner of the visitors’ dugout and allowed the tears to well up in his eyes.
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