Torino v Internazionale Match Preview, 6/3/23

Match Facts

1. Torino’s last win against Inter in Serie A was back on 27th January 2019 (0-1, goal by Izzo); since then, six wins for the Nerazzurri and one draw (1-1, on 13 March 2022).
2. Torino haven’t lost in six of their last nine home games against Inter in Serie A (W2 D4), having lost the previous nine.
3. Torino have won four of their last eight Serie A matches against Inter in the second half of the season, only losing twice in the period (D2).
4. Inter could become the first team in Serie A history to end a season with 20 teams in third position after losing 12 games; prior to this campaign, the best result for a team with the same defeats in a 38 MD campaign was fourth place (five times, most recently Lazio in 2011/12).
5. Torino haven’t won any of their last six home Serie A matches (D3, L3); the last time the Granata played more home games in a row in a single season without winning was in 2020/21 (12 in that occasion).
6. Inter have drawn the fewest games (three) in Serie A this season; overall, only three sides have finished a 20-team league season in the top four while collecting fewer than four draws in the whole season: AC Milan in 1949/50, Juventus in 2013/14 and Roma in 2016/17.
7. Torino have scored 42 goals in the current league season and could finish a Serie A campaign with fewer than 45 goals scored for the first time since 2008/09 (37 on that occasion, a tournament that ended with relegation).
8. Inter have won each of their last six Serie A matches played on the final MD: a streak record for the Nerazzurri considering only the last game of the season in the competition.
9. Inter are the only team against whom Ivan Ilic has scored more than one goal in Serie A (two, both at home, for Verona, including his first in the competition); after the goal against Spezia, the Torino midfielder has netted two goals in 22/23 and has never scored more in a single season in the Italian top-flight.
10. Lautaro Martínez is close being directly involved in 100 goals in Serie A (currently at 99); since his debut in the competition in 2018/19, only Ciro Immobile (137) and Domenico Berardi (107) have more goals+assists; however, the Inter striker hasn’t scored or assisted in his last three league games against Torino, after having participated in five goals in the previous four (four goals and one assist).