Baroni admits Torino 5-0 defeat to Inter was ‘painful’ | OneFootball

Marco Baroni admits losing 5-0 to Inter was ‘a painful result’ for Torino, who made it too easy for their opponents. ‘We’ve got to improve and do it fast.’

This was a show of strength from the Nerazzurri, who put down their marker for the Scudetto race with a 5-0 victory.

Marcus Thuram bagged a brace, with Alessandro Bastoni, Lautaro Martinez and Ange-Yoan Bonny also on target, but Franco Israel’s saves prevented the scoreline from becoming even more humiliating.

Baroni recognises Torino problems

MILAN, ITALY – AUGUST 25: Marco Baroni, Head Coach of Torino, gestures during the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and Torino FC at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on August 25, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)

“It is a painful result, it must give us the right determination and grit going forward, the kind we were sadly missing this evening,” Baroni told DAZN Italia.

“The team hadn’t started badly, but didn’t play with the right ferocity. A team like Torino cannot commit just two fouls in the first half, we should’ve pressed Inter more, and that is certainly something we need to work on.”

The biggest worry for Baroni is that Torino gifted two of those five goals in the same way, by sluggishly playing out from the back, falling foul of the Inter high press.

“All the goals really came from our mistakes. We’ve got to improve and do it fast, because we have some very difficult fixtures in the early weeks of the campaign,” added the coach.

“This defeat must push us forward to find the unity and solidity that we are looking for.”

MILAN, ITALY – AUGUST 25: Lautaro Martinez of Internazionale runs with the ball whilst under pressure from Gvidas Gineitis of Torino during the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and Torino FC at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on August 25, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)

Considering Inter’s 3-5-2 formation, does Baroni regret putting the Granata out in a risky 4-3-3 formation?

“I would make the same decisions again, because we really struggled on set plays more than anything else, and moments of individual distraction. You can’t do that against a side like Inter.”

The fixture list has certainly not been kind to Baroni, because Torino’s next run of Serie A games are against Fiorentina, Roma, Atalanta, Parma, Lazio and Napoli.