Inter go to Torino on Sunday with their title hopes still alive but not yet settled, after Napoli’s 4-0 win over Cremonese on Friday ruled out any chance of sealing the Scudetto this weekend. Cristian Chivu’s side are also carrying momentum, having come from two goals down against Como on Tuesday in the Coppa Italia to reach the final.
Hakan Calhanoglu drove that comeback with two goals and the assist for Petar Sucic’s winner, and Inter have now won four consecutive matches in all competitions. They also beat Cagliari 3-0 last weekend and have taken all three Serie A matches since the season resumed in April by an aggregate 12-5.
Torino, meanwhile, head into the game unbeaten in their last three league outings and only five points behind 10th-placed Sassuolo. Roberto D’Aversa, who replaced Marco Baroni in late February, has lifted them to a W4, D1, L2 record since taking charge. That is an improvement, but the scale of the assignment remains obvious: Torino have lost 13 of their last 14 meetings with Inter in all competitions and are on an eight-game losing run in this match-up.
The numbers in Turin lean heavily one way. Inter have won 12 of 13 away league matches against teams that started the round outside the top four, and nine of their 12 Serie A away wins have come without conceding. They have also beaten Torino without conceding in their last three top-flight away matches in the city, a pattern that underlines how difficult this fixture has become for the hosts.
That imbalance is sharpened by what happened in August, when Inter won the reverse fixture 5-0. The context around Sunday’s match is also stark: Inter are being spoken of as runaway Serie A leaders and are expected to claim their 21st Scudetto in Chivu’s first season at San Siro, while Torino are trying to avoid their worst Serie A finish since 2020/21, when they ended up 17th. D’Aversa has steadied them, but the trip to face a side that has already beaten them by five goals and keeps finding ways to close games out is another test of how far that progress really goes.
For Inter, Sunday is less about finishing the job and more about keeping control of a race they no longer can end this weekend. For Torino, it is a chance to measure recent improvement against one of the league’s hardest opponents and to see whether their form can finally change a fixture that has rarely gone their way.