Fiorentina welcome Torino to the Stadio Artemio Franchi on Sunday evening as they look to extend their unbeaten run in Serie A to five games. And ahead of the 19:30 CEST kick-off, we’ve put together this list of five key stats and facts on the game…

2.    Fiorentina’s first Serie A win at home over Torino came in the 1931/32 season, on 25 October 1931, as part of Week 6 of the league season. Back then, the stadium was known as the Stadio Giovanni Berti – the same arena that would later be renamed the Stadio Comunale and, eventually, the Stadio Artemio Franchi. It ended in a 4-2 win for Fiorentina, courtesy of goals from Antonio Busini, Gastone Prendato, Pedro Petrone and Raffaele Rivolo. Gino Rossetti and Luigi Cabrini scored for the visitors. Incidentally, Fiorentina’s most recent league win over Torino at home took place on 25 October 2017 – exactly 86 years after their first. The Viola won 3-0 that day, with Marco Benassi, Giovanni Simeone and Khouma Babacar grabbing the goals.

3.    On the subject of big wins, in the 1958/59 season Fiorentina beat Torino by an aggregate score of 10-0 over the home and away matches. The Viola were coached by experienced Hungarian boss Lajos Czeizler that season. Kurt Hamrin was in lethal form against the Granata in both games, scoring six goals in total – including a hat-trick in Florence on 28 May 1959, part of a 4-0 win for the Viola. Torino – who were actually known as Talmone Torino (after a Turinese chocolate factory) that season – ended up finishing bottom of the table and slipping into Serie B. The sponsorship agreement with Talmone, which was originally due to last three years, was cancelled at the end of the campaign. However, it’s worth pointing out some of the talent in that Torino team: Enzo Bearzot, who would coach Italy to World Cup glory in Spain in 1982, and Giuseppe Virgili, who had won the Scudetto with Fiorentina three years previously. For Fiorentina, the 1958/59 season was a record-breaking one: the side scored 95 goals in total, setting a record for goals scored in an 18-team season that has yet to be broken. The Viola finished the season in second place, just three points behind champions AC Milan, despite dominating for much of the campaign and raising hopes that the team could win the title once again.

4.    Torino haven’t won a league game in Florence since 31 October 1976, when a 78th-minute goal from Francesco Graziano game them a 1-0 win. That was the famous season when Juventus won the title with 51 points (a record tally for a 16-team season), with Torino one point behind in second and Fiorentina – led by Carlo Mazzone – a respectable third. In the 44 years since that game, Torino have played Fiorentina in Florence 30 times in Serie A and B, mustering just 14 draws and 16 defeats and only scoring 18 goals to Fiorentina’s 51. Torino did beat Fiorentina in Florence in the Coppa Italia last 16 on 17 December 2008: a 1-0 victory secured by Rolando Bianchi’s goal in the first half, which was enough to see the Granata through to the semi-finals.

5.    The last Fiorentina v Torino match-up in Serie A took place on 31 March 2019 and ended in a 1-1 draw. Giovanni Simeone scored for the Viola, with Daniele Baselli getting the visitors’ goal. In the game in Turin earlier this season, Torino – still led at that point by Walter Mazzarri, before his sacking and replacement by Moreno Longo – beat Fiorentina 2-1 courtesy of goals from Simone Zaza and Cristian Ansaldi (Martin Caceres scored for the Viola). Fiorentina were still under the stewardship of Vincenzo Montella at that point, but the Torino game proved to be Montella’s final away game in charge. Fiorentina followed up the Torino defeat with a 1-1 draw with Inter and a 4-1 defeat to Roma, both at home, after which Montella was sacked and replaced by Beppe Iachini.