Roma managed a late 2-1 win over Torino at the Stadio Olimpico on Tuesday night in Serie A.

The Giallorossi took the lead thanks to an early Mattia Destro striker, but the Granata equalised thanks to a wondergoal from Ciro Immobile. However, the home side won the game in stoppage time thanks to Alessandro Florenzi.

Roma started the stronger and had the first opportunity when Miralem Pjanic’s weak effort was easily saved by Daniele Padelli.

Not long after Rudi Garcia’s men had a penalty appeal turned down following a run from Maicon across the Torino defence in which he appeared to have been fouled by Kamil Glik, but the referee waved away the protestations.

Maicon was again in the thick of the action as he crossed in from the right and found Francesco Totti unmarked, but the Roma captain’s low effort was comfortably saved by Padelli.

Torino did eventually have their had their first foray at the Roma goal when nice interplay from Alessio Cerci and Immobile ended with the latter having an angled drive go just wide of Morgan De Sanctis’ goal.

Then, a moment of brilliance from the Torino keeper Daniele Padelli denied both Mattia Destro and Miralem Pjanic. But on 40 minutes Roma took a deserved lead when Gervinho ran at the Torino defence, with the ball then falling to Mattia Destro who stabbed home past the on rushing Padelli.

Torino equalised six minutes into the second half, as Giuseppe Vives played a long ball from the back which found Immobile who fired a first time volley past the flat footed De Sanctis.

As the second half wore on Torino were causing Roma problems as they sat back and hit them on the counter time and again.

On one such occasion, Toro broke with four on two before Immobile crossed in for Cerci but he took one touch and fired wide.

Gervinho then wasted a golden chance to score for the Giallorossi when Maicon crossed in from the right and it fell to the Ivorian, but he could only stab wide from seven yards out.

Just as time looked to be against the Romans, they managed to win the game in the second minute of stoppage time. Gervinho was once again critical as he played in Florenzi on the left hand side, and the Italian fired an unstoppable shot into the far corner to give Roma three valuable points.