Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Torino Mid Season Report Card

Torino are in 7th at the mid-point of an exciting Div 5 of T100 with 8 wins, 8 draws, 3 losses and 32 points.  Currently occupying the last promotion playoff spot and also needing to finish in this position at the end of the season for manager Huddo to keep his job.  So the pressure is on for a big 2nd half of the season.

Our best result was a 4-0 home win over Malaga back on Match Day 11.  While our worse result was a 3-1 defeat to Flamengo on Match Day 12 so we must have been celebrating too much over our win over Malaga the turn before!

Our best transfer was bringing in Negredo despite his drop in rating to 89 the striker has been in great form in Italy with 10 goals, 5 assists and 7 MOTM from 17 appearances.  Negredo has also been our player of the season so far and we will need his goals and leadership if we are to keep in the promotion playoff spots and look to climb the table.

Skrtel is a player under pressure having looked a little shaky at the back with an avg match rating of just 6.35.  He needs to show some improvement and manager Huddo is looking at trying to strengthen his squad in particular at the back.

What lies ahead, well we are out of both the Cup and Shield so promotion is our goal as it was after relegation last season from Div 4.  We also have the World Club Cup with crucial games against PSV and Udinese to round out our Group 12 games and with positive results in both games we can progress to the knockout stage which was our goal in a challenging group.

Overall, I would give our season so far a 6 out of 10 nothing impressive but we are in the mix for a promotion playoff spot and while we have only lost 3 games we have drawn too many with 8 from the 19 games being played ending in a stalemate.  


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