Parma overcame Torino 3-1 at the Ennio Tardini on Monday afternoon in Serie A.

Ciro Immobile’s ninth goal of the season gave the Granata the lead before first half goals from Marco Marchionni and Alessandro Lucarelli saw Parma take control at the break. Amauri added a third with twenty minutes remaining to seal the victory.

The opening minutes saw the Ducali dominate possession but they were unable to convert their dominance into any clear cut chances, indeed their best chance saw Torino goalkeeper Daniele Padelli put a cross behind for a corner.

After a dour first twenty minutes Torino took a surprise lead as they pressed quickly down the right flank and Matteo Darmian was able to drill the ball low and hard from the touchline into the six yard box where Immobile was able to stab the ball home from close range at the far post.

Parma continued to dominate possession but could not create any clear cut openings. Amauri tried a speculative bicycle kick in the area only to fire high and wide.

Immobile then blazed over from inside the area after being played in by a wonderful through ball.

Moments later Parma deservedly equalised through Marchionni’s controlled volley which went straight through the goalkeeper from the edge of the area following Mattia Cassani’s fine play on the right.

Almost immediately from the restart Amauri crashed a shot from almost thirty yards against the crossbar with Padelli well beaten as the home side began to take control once more.

Moments before the break, Parma took a deserved lead through Alessandro Lucarelli’s deft flick flew into the top corner beating Padelli at his near post from Nicola Sansone’s corner.

Jonathan Biabiany was the first to test either goalkeeper after the restart racing onto a pass before skipping past a defender only to fire his effort into the onrushing Padelli.

Both sides continued to have success playing down the wings through swift counter attacks. In a change to the first half it was now the away side that were dominating possession but Parma continued to threaten with Biabiany’s pace and Amauri headed narrowly wide.

Then on seventy minutes Amauri finally opened his account for the season. The ball was played into the area and the veteran forward showed both poise and great strength to hold off Kamil Glik before calmly stroking the ball into the far corner of the net.

The away side tried to hit back but were restricted to long range efforts that never really threatened Antonio Mirante’s goal and any efforts on target were straight at the custodian as the game drifted towards the final whistle.

Torino’s day was then summed up in injury time by Migjen Basha as he wasted a fantastic opportunity to reduce the arrears, forcing Mirante into a fantastic save from close range.

Parma, unbeaten in seven league games, now sit eighth in Serie A with 23 points from their 18 matches just two points adrift of Torino who sit above them in seventh place.