Zaza scores twice as Torino beats Sassuolo 3-2 in Serie A

<p>TURIN, Italy &mdash; Simone Zaza scored twice to help relegation-threatened Torino fight back from two goals down and beat Sassuolo 3-2 Wednesday in a rearranged Serie A match.</p>
<p>Zaza headed in the winner in stoppage time and was then surrounded by the Torino players and coaching staff, which rushed onto the field to hug him.</p>
<p>Sassuolo was 2-0 up with 13 minutes remaining after Domenico Berardi’s first-half double. But Zaza pulled one back for Torino and Rolando Mandragora netted the equalizer 10 minutes later.</p>
<p>Torino moved out of the relegation zone, a point above the bottom three having played a match less than the teams around it.</p>
<p>Sassuolo remained eighth.</p>
<p>The match was rearranged from last month because of a number of coronavirus cases in the Torino squad.</p>
<p>Sassuolo took the lead when Filip Duričić found Francesco Caputo with a chipped pass and he touched it on for Berardi to fire past Salvatore Sirigu in the sixth minute.</p>
<p>Berardi doubled his and Sassuolo’s tally shortly before halftime with a powerful volley from a tight angle.</p>
<p>Torino pulled one back in the 77th when Antonio Sanabria headed on Andrea Belotti’s pass for Zaza to fire into the bottom right.</p>
<p>And the hosts leveled shortly after as Amer Gojak’s deflected shot was parried by Andrea Consigli but Mandragora was there to tap in the rebound.</p>
<p>Sirigu pulled off a stunning save to deny Obiang before Zaza headed Cristian Ansaldi’s cross into the bottom right corner in the second minute of stoppage time.</p>
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