Talking Toro Podcast

In the first half of this week's episode, Peter and Rob discuss the rather strange places that they watched Toro's 2-1 home defeat to Atalanta. This week's fixtures against Sampdoria and Monza are previewed, as Rob looks at the Granata's surprisingly good form in the matches pre and post Superga.

With it being Superga week, in the second half, the boys are joined by Dominic Bliss, author of the outstanding book 'Erbstein: The triumph and tragedy of football's forgotten pioneer' to discuss Egri Erbstein's incredible life and time at Torino.

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Peter and Rob are back to discuss Torino's surprising 1-0 victory in Rome against 2nd place Lazio, thanks to a rare long range effort from Ivan Ilic. Saturday night's match at home to Atalanta is also previewed, as the #BattleForEighth continues.

In the second half of the podcast, the lads compile an all all time 11 of Argentinean and Uruguayan players who have played for the Granata.

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Peter and Rob look back at Torino's last two disappointing home results, a 1-0 defeat to Roma and Sunday's 1-1 draw against Salernitana.

Rob's recent trip to Italy is also discussed, including a surreal encounter with a former Toro left back.

Saturday's match against Lazio is also previewed, as Toro look for their first win since 12th March.

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Peter and Rob deliver their immediate reaction to Torino's 1-1 draw against Sassuolo and in a pod first, provide their own 'pagelle' to rate the players' performance.

Rob will be attending Saturday's match against Roma, as former Toro captain Andrea Belotti returns to the Stadio Grande Torino for the first time. Therefore, that match is also previewed, with a rather shocking prediction.

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Friend of the pod Macer Corcoran returns to test his Toro knowledge against Peter, who defends his virtual trophy that he won against Rob at Christmas.

There are 6 rounds, so please feel free to play along at home.

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Peter and Rob discuss Torino's 4-0 'home' defeat to Napoli and discuss the reasons why so many Napoli fans were able to attend the match.

Italy's international match with England is also discussed, with Torino's own Alessandro Buongiorno in the squad, but unlikely to feature.

Toro's next fixture against Sassuolo is also previewed.

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Peter and Rob discuss Sunday's 2-0 victory over Lecce including the redemption of Radonjic and Tonny Sanabria's good form.

This weekend's game against champions elect Napoli is also previewed, whilst they also take a look at the Torino Youth Academy (or Primavera) and discuss the former players to have passed through the ranks, and the next players to look out for in the future.

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Peter and Rob discuss Torino's 1-0 victory over Bologna, the unlikely cult hero Yann Karamoh and 'that' tackle by Perr Schuurs. Sunday's fixture away to Lecce is previewed as Toro aim to get revenge for the 4-0 defeat the last time they played there.

Rob and Peter also compile their list of the Top 10 Toro players of the 21st Century, which provides plenty of debate!

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Peter and Rob are back to discuss Torino's poor defending in the derby, as the Granata concede 3 goals from set pieces in a 4-2 defeat.

They also talk about whether Nemanja Radonjić's Toro career is over after he was subbed after coming on as a substitute, whilst suggestions to improve the 'culture' surrounding the Derby Della Mole from a Toro player perspective our discussed.

Monday night's match against Bologna is also previewed as Toro aim to get back to winning ways.

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Peter and Rob discuss Monday night's disappointing 2-2 draw with bottom-of-the-table Cremonese.

That match did not act as the ideal preparation to next week's 'Derby Della Mole' but Peter and Rob put forward 10 things that may need to happen in order for Toro to claim an unlikely victory - given that Toro have only won 1 derby game since 1995!

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