Carpi made a stunning debut under new Coach Beppe Sannino, beating third-placed Torino 2-1 for their historic first Serie A victory.

The Granata were sitting pretty right behind joint Serie A leaders Inter and Fiorentina after their best start to a season in two decades. On the other hand, Carpi made their debut under new Coach Giuseppe Sannino following the dismissal of Fabrizio Castori and were still looking for their first ever top flight victory.

Joel Obi and Cristian Molinaro sat out bans, while Bruno Peres, Daniele Baselli, Danilo Avelar, Nikola Maksimovic, Alessandro Gazzi and Alexander Farnerud were sidelined. Carpi missed Luca Marrone, Nicolas Spolli and Lorenzo Lollo.

Sannino’s first adjustment was to give goalkeeper Vid Belec his Serie A debut, as Zeljko Brkic conceded five goals against both Sampdoria and Roma.

Carpi had the first chance of the game with a Matteo Fedele free kick finding the head of Ryder Matos, well plucked out of the air by Daniele Padelli, then Marco Borriello blasted over.

These sides had never previously crossed paths in Serie A or B, so it was an all-time first. Matos also just failed to reach a Fedele cross, prompting Emiliano Moretti to risk an own goal.

Torino finally woke up with Belec beating away a Gaston Silva half-volley, then Riccardo Gagliolo required a goal-line clearance to deny Maxi Lopez from a Cesare Bovo assist.

Isaac Cofie also risked an own goal when defending from Quagliarella and Bovo hit a screamer off target. Gaston Silva knocked down a cross for Maxi Lopez, who spun round for his angled drive to skim the far post.

The first half statistics showed a marked improvement under Sannino. For the first time this season, Carpi had more possession (55 per cent) and allowed only one shot on target.

Carpi found the breakthrough with a little bit of luck after the restart, as Gabriel Silva’s right-foot shot cannoned off the near post and ricocheted into the net off Padelli’s shoulder. It will go down as an own goal from the Torino shot-stopper. Remarkably, that’s Padelli’s second Serie A own goal after the one in favour of Empoli last season.

Belec got down well to palm away a Quagliarella cross-shot and nobody was there to tap in the rebound. Maxi Lopez had timid penalty appeals for a tussle with Cristian Zaccardo and Afriyie Acquah drilled wide, but Carpi doubled their lead.

It was a classic counter that Ryder started and finished, combining with Borriello to nod in his second goal of the season. The young Brazilian was so exhausted that he couldn’t even celebrate, collapsing with cramp.

The game suddenly sprung to life and moments later Maxi Lopez was brought down by Igor Bubnjic for a penalty. The Argentine got back up to coolly convert the spot-kick.

There was time to recover, but Carpi battened down the hatches and Torino only poured pressure on during stoppages.