Inter vs Torino prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2025-08-24 18:45.
[p]Inter Milan start a new era under their former defender Cristian Chivu with a home game against Torino on matchday one of the 2025/26 Serie A campaign.[/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]Inter endured a heartbreaking 2024/25 season, losing out on the Scudetto to Napoli on the final day and also finishing as runners-up in the UEFA Champions League and Supercoppa Italiana. Head coach Simone Inzaghi moved on, with Chivu taking charge at the FIFA Club World Cup, where the Nerazzurri exited at the last-16 stage. With 13 games in charge of Parma last term his only senior managerial experience before this role, Chivu’s pedigree has been questioned, but a win here will calm some nerves and mark the first time since 2003 that Inter have won on matchday one under a foreign manager (D3, L1).[/p]
[p]Torino finished 11th last season – outside the European qualification spots for a sixth consecutive campaign. A change at the top over the summer saw Marco Baroni replace Paolo Vanoli as manager, starting his tenure with a 1-0 win in the first round of the Coppa Italia against Serie B club Modena. Three successive defeats in friendlies against better opposition before that victory is cause for concern however as they look to address their “San Siro curse”, having failed to win any of their last 18 Serie A games at the venue (D5, L13) since their last triumph there in April 2016.[/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]Inter are undefeated in their last 12 Serie A H2Hs (W11, D1), winning each of the last six. [/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]Inter have scored first in eight of their last ten league games.[/p]
[p]Five of Inter’s last six Serie A fixtures (W3, D1, L2) have seen the winner keep a clean sheet.[/p]
[p]Torino’s last five defeats have come without scoring.[/p]
[p]Torino’s last 11 games have each featured under 2.5 goals.[/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Marcus Thuram warmed up with a second-half goal in Inter’s final friendly of pre-season and he netted a hat-trick in last term’s corresponding fixture against Torino (3-2). Nikola Vlašić scored the last goal in that match and got Torino’s winner in the aforementioned cup game against Modena.[/p]
[p]Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Pio Esposito are suspended for Inter, while Federico Dimarco came off with a thigh bruise in their last friendly. Torino will be without long-term absentee Perr Schuurs.[/p]
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[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]Six of the last eight fixtures between Inter and Torino have seen fewer than three goals scored, so don’t be surprised if under 2.5 goals lands here.[/p]
[p][i]Author: Sridhar Bhamidi[/i][/p]