Coppa Italia: Torino scare, Spezia win on penalties

The primary spherical of the Coppa Italia is now full, as Torino squeezed previous Feralpisalo 2-1 and Spezia ultimately eradicated Venezia in a penalty shoot-out.

The Granata had an early shock when Feralpisalo took the lead with Davide Di Molfetta assembly the Simone Guerra cross, however 4 minutes later they had been in a position to equalise due to Mergim Vojvoda firing within the Nemanja Radonjic help.

Nikola Vlasic was unfortunate to see his header thump the crossbar, whereas Toro examined the opposition goalkeeper a number of instances, together with Perr Schuurs and Samuele Ricci.

Torino lastly snatched victory late on and averted additional time when Ivan Ilic smashed his end into the roof of the web from distance, establishing a conflict with Frosinone.

There was additional time when Spezia and Venezia performed out a 2-2 thriller after 90 minutes.

The hosts twice took the lead, by a Mirko Antonucci strike and Luca Moro penalty awarded for the Magnus Andersen dealing with offence.

Venezia saved coming again with Joel Pohjanpalo and a Christian Gytkjaer spot-kick, once more for handball by Kelvin Amian.

Raimonds Krollis most likely ought to’ve received it for Spezia with a header from point-blank vary that was off course.

It needed to be selected penalties, with Pohjanpalo and Francesco Esposito efforts saved earlier than Francesco Zampano blasted the ultimate spot-kick over the bar, sending Spezia by to face Sassuolo.

This completes the primary spherical and the second might be performed in November.

Coppa Italia Spherical 2

Bologna–Verona

Cremonese-Cittadella

Genoa-Reggina

Lecce-Parma

Salernitana–Sampdoria

Udinese–Cagliari

Torino-Frosinone

Sassuolo-Spezia

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