Como travelled to the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino and departed with a 1-3 victory that hung in the balance until the final quarter-hour — then decided with emphatic finality, as three goals in eleven minutes overturned what had been a Torino lead.
Che Adams, Torino's centre-forward, opened the scoring at 24' from a Kian Fitz-Jim assist, and that advantage remained intact through the interval and into the second half. For nearly an hour, Ignazio Abate's side appeared capable of extending a run that had brought three consecutive wins into this fixture. Then Como's substitutes changed the entire complexion of the match.
Francesc Fàbregas's side made a double change at 58', introducing Jayden Addai and Martin Baturina for Máximo Perrone and Maxence Caqueret. Another alteration followed at 70', and by 78' Como had reshuffled once more, bringing on Samuele Ricci and Ivan Smolčić. The cumulative effect proved immediate. At 81', Como defender Jacobo Ramón Naveros — operating in an advanced role — levelled matters at 1-1, with Nico Paz providing the decisive pass. Six minutes later, Paz switched from creator to finisher: assisted by Como's Yan Couto, the midfielder put the visitors ahead at 87'. Then, in the second minute of added time, Baturina — one of the 58' substitutes — added the third, completing the turnaround.
Nico Paz emerges as the protagonist of this encounter. The Como midfielder arrived at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino in the sort of form that troubles opponents: Como had won three of their last five and taken seven points from their last three before the off. Paz embodied that momentum directly, providing an assist and then the decisive goal in a four-minute spell that transformed a deficit into a lead. His fingerprints were all over the second and third strikes — creator then scorer — giving Como's late surge its structure.
Torino's predicament is harder to pin on a single lapse than on a structural fragility. Adams's opener was well-taken and the advantage held for more than fifty minutes, yet the Granata could not add to it despite Abate's own changes at 55' — Nathan Patterson and Gvidas Gineitis introduced, Cacciamani and Fitz-Jim withdrawn. When Como's substitutions tipped the balance, Torino lacked a cutting edge in the final third. Rafik Belghali picked up a yellow card at 72' and was replaced at 89', though by then the contest was already decided. The head-to-head record between these sides now stands at two Como victories from two meetings, a pattern this result reinforces: Torino led, and still lost.
Form trajectories paint the fuller picture for both clubs. Torino entered this fixture on the back of three consecutive wins, though that sequence now belongs to history; across their last three matches including tonight, they have accumulated six points from nine available, with one defeat to show. Como, conversely, have now won their last three in succession — a perfect run that reflects a side gathering genuine momentum under Fàbregas. Before kick-off, Como sat fifth on 17 points from eight games; Torino occupied eighth on 13 points from eight. The four-point gap between them at the start remains intact, and Como have done nothing to narrow it in Torino's favour.
A team that led for fifty-seven minutes and lost by two goals must answer searching questions about its capacity to preserve what it earns.