Como came to the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino and left with a 1-3 victory that was not decided until the final quarter-hour — and then decided emphatically, with three goals in eleven minutes erasing what had been a Torino lead.
Che Adams, Torino's forward, gave the hosts the opener at 24', converted from a Kian Fitz-Jim assist, and that advantage held through the interval and into the second half. For nearly an hour, Ignazio Abate's side looked capable of extending a run that had brought three consecutive wins before this fixture. Then Como's bench intervened, and the match changed shape entirely.
Francesc Fàbregas's side made a double substitution at 58', introducing Jayden Addai and Martin Baturina for Máximo Perrone and Maxence Caqueret. A further change came at 70', and by 78' Como had reshuffled again, bringing on Samuele Ricci and Ivan Smolčić. The cumulative effect was visible almost immediately. At 81', Como defender Jacobo Ramón Naveros — operating in an advanced position — converted with Nico Paz providing the assist, levelling the score at 1-1. Six minutes later, Paz turned provider into scorer: assisted by Como's Yan Couto, the midfielder put Como ahead at 87'. Then, in the second minute of added time, Baturina — one of the 58' substitutes — added the third, completing the turnaround without assistance credited.
Nico Paz is the figure this match will be remembered through. The Como midfielder arrived at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino in the kind of form that makes opponents uncomfortable: Como had won three of their last five and taken seven points from their last three before kick-off. Paz embodied that momentum directly, contributing an assist and then the lead-taking goal in a four-minute stretch that turned a deficit into an advantage. His involvement in both the second and third goals — as creator and then scorer — gave Como's late surge its architecture.
Torino's difficulty is harder to locate in a single error than in a structural vulnerability. Adams's opener was legitimate and the lead was held for more than fifty minutes, yet the Granata could not add to it despite the substitutions Abate made at 55' — Nathan Patterson and Gvidas Gineitis introduced, Cacciamani and Fitz-Jim withdrawn. When Como's own substitutions shifted the game's balance, Torino had no answer in the final third. Rafik Belghali collected a yellow card at 72' and was replaced at 89', by which point the match was already lost. The head-to-head record between these sides now reads two Como wins from two meetings, and this result fits the pattern: Torino led, and still lost.
The form trajectory tells the fuller story for both clubs. Torino came into this fixture having won three consecutive matches, but that run now belongs to the past; across their last three including tonight, they have taken six points from nine available, with one defeat. Como, by contrast, have now won three of their last three — a perfect window that reflects a side building genuine momentum under Fàbregas. Before this match, Como sat fifth on 17 points from eight games; Torino were eighth on 13 points from eight. The gap between them was four points before kick-off, and Como have done nothing to close it in Torino's favour.
A team that led for fifty-seven minutes and lost by two goals has questions to answer about its capacity to hold what it earns.