Cristian Chivu has decided to start Yann Bisseck in defence and Ange-Yoan Bonny in attack for Inter Milan against Torino, with the Germany defender returning from injury and the France starlet partnering Thuram in Lautaro Martinez’s absence.
The starting lineups for Torino vs Inter Milan, Serie A Match Day 34 at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, have been made official.
Three points today would take Inter to within touching distance of a 21st Scudetto title.
This after a strong run of form including victories against Como, Roma and Cagliari.
Meanwhile, Serie A title rivals Napoli and AC Milan have both dropped points in recent weeks.
Subsequently, Inter go into Match Day 34 with a commanding lead at the top of the table.
Therefore, a win today could set up the Nerazzurri to lift the title next weekend, if results go their way elsewhere.
This as Cristian Chivu’s side look to build on their Coppa Italia final qualification and push for the double.
Torino Vs Inter Milan – Bisseck Returns To Starting XI As Lautaro Travels But Stays On Bench
Firstly, Yann Bisseck returns to the starting lineup after recovering from injury.
The Germany defender lines up alongside Akanji and Carlos Augusto in the back three in front of Yann Sommer.
Meanwhile, Alessandro Bastoni is named among the substitutes but is not expected to start. Chivu wants to manage his workload carefully with the Coppa Italia final against Lazio on May 13th in mind.
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— Torino Football Club (@TorinoFC_1906) April 26, 2026
Furthermore, Lautaro Martinez travels with the squad but remains unavailable. The Argentina captain is targeting a return for next weekend’s home game against Parma.
Luis Henrique also misses out through injury, and Dumfries also has some discomfort on the right flank. Therefore, Matteo Darmian will start on the right-hand side.
Torino Vs Inter Milan – Bonny Partners Thuram As Sucic Waits On Bench
Next, in midfield, Barella and Zielinski will start, with Calhanoglu dropped to the bench.
Sucic pushed hard for a start and completes the midfield three.
Up front, Pio Esposito continues his run alongside Marcus Thuram. Bonny is the main attacking option from the bench.
I nostri 11 nerazzurri 🖤💙
Forza ragazzi 👊@play_eFootball pic.twitter.com/Egf6Zvy4O0— Inter ⭐⭐ (@Inter) April 26, 2026
Inter have handled Lautaro Martinez’s absence well, with Thuram rediscovering his form at the right moment.
In conclusion, the lineup is near full strength, and Inter arrive in Turin knowing a victory today could bring the title celebrations significantly closer.
INTER (3-5-2): 1 Sommer; 31 Bisseck, 25 Akanji, 30 Carlos Augusto; 36 Darmian, 23 Barella, 8 Sucic, 7 Zielinski, 32 Dimarco; 9 Thuram, 14 Bonny.
Substitutes: 13 Martinez, 12 Di Gennaro, 15 Acerbi, 6 De Vrij, 95 Bastoni, 2 Dumfries, 99 Cocchi, 20 Calhanoglu, 16 Frattesi, 22 Mkhitaryan, 17 Diouf, 94 Esposito, 10 Lautaro
Coach: Chivu.
Suspended: none.
Unavailable: Luis Henrique.
TORINO (3-4-1-2): Paleari; Coco, Ismajli, Ebosse; Lazaro, Ilkhan, Gineitis, Obrador; Vlasic; Simeone, Adams
Referee: Mariani.
Assistants: Bindoni and Tedoni.
Fourth official: Crezzini.
VAR: Mazzoleni.
Assistant VAR: Paganessi.
We have too many weak players in this team.
Akanji is bad, bissek can’t defend, bony is a turkey, fratessi can’t do anything….
Clearly the first goal conceding can show how bad Akanji on defense. He literally just gave up there. I dont mind to buy out him since he is decent on the offense, but if we wants to do better, we need a real center back. Put Jose in first goalie and spend money on a solid center back.
Some of my comments still waiting approval. Nima, are we rubentinas? Did i hurt someone little feelings?
Hopefully this won’t matter, and a win next week and it’s done.
But I’m fed up watching players like Bonny, bisseck, Carlos, Diouf, Henrique in this great shirt, they simply aren’t good enough, it’s fine if they are back ups but they’re having to play more and more because our team is old AF.
Thuram was better today than usual but still not where he needs to be.
Pio seems to be suffering from getting less time too, he should be playing ahead of both Thuram and Bonny.
Chivu – stop subbing off Dimarco ffs!
hardly any of the players you’ve mentioned deserves to even act as substitutions, the best scenario would be for all of them to go
I can’t remember the last time Bony had a decent match. Today in dangerous positions he failed in so many way. There was a time when he could go down with any contact from behind but decided to control and still lost the situation even after the defender slipped.
He’s terrible mate,
And having him and Thuram together we have zero press.
At this stage it’s turned into an unhealthy hatred of him, Henrique & Bisseck.
Everyone will blame Carlos for the pen – but if bisseck was doing his job (which he can’t) he’d be in the middle winning that aerial battle clearing the ball.
He’s a far better CF option than Bonny though tbf lol
Dimarco 18 assists like Olise, but Bayern scored 113 goals.
Playing in the donner league. No thank you
😀
Right on. Mickey Mouse league. Something like Serie A was this year.
Chivu f-ed up this game. It took him way too long to sub, and when he subed, he made it even worse.
Also, whats up with that kid Sucic? One game he plays like prime Modric and next game he plays like Badelj.
Chivu is our coach..we dont shit on our staff. Stay possitive bro
im not being negative bro, just pointing out something obvious. What took him so long to replace exausted players? After 2-0 we only had to keep the ball and hit on the counter.
Well, never mind now. We’ll be campioni d’italia next weekend.
True bro. All love from me brothers. We got this
Are you from Modrić’s and Sučić’s Croatia? Your name sounds like from ex-YU country. 😛
Very close. From Montenegro. What about you?
Ja sam iz Kosova, 🙂
Sucic has been one of our biggest mysteries in this championship so far, one game, or part of it, he puts on a good performance, just to disappear the next 4-5 games. Too many misplaced passes, lost balls, etc
Feels like for us to get a pen it has to be clear cut, cant be denied. But for one to be called against us, its the opposite. Like the VAR is heavily investigating everything our defense does but never intervenes for our strikers. It’s happened like 4-5 times against us this season and idont remember the var ever intervening in our favor. Its been ridiculous
Yeah thats been the case since forever. If you are a new Inter supporter you should get used to it. Its like a loop thats repeating season after season
If Inter got a penalty from the similar play the whole of serie a won’t stop talking about it for months
To be fair, the ball did hit him in the hand, plus hands were horizontally with the ground
Nope how many times Inter got denied similar penalties.Just because the ball hits the arm it doesn’t automatically makes it a penalty
His hands were there because a 200 ibs man was flying towards him. To be fair refs should using common sense.
Yes. And there will be boooo every game. Fok em bro. We’ll be champs. They try everything to destabilize us…yet still…forza Inter.
The fokin agnielli is back…what more can i say.
No toro, no sandro, no denzel….still good
There is still work to do though. Zeli is meh today…and hakan is so important
But hey…mariana strikes again
that’s probably true, but there is no justification for poor performance after the 2-0 lead, no excuse.
I think Chivu underestimated Torino.
I think mariana did her thing.
Did you really wrote how we’re going to B or you were high earlier?
I was afraid we made huge mistake with referees.
wasnt this offside
what is that decision making thuram.
Diouf is an awful player
A complete collapse after the second goal. So weird. Don’t mind a tie since we can still win the league next week but it’s worrying. Subs weren’t great this game either. We can still win it tho
Not our best game bro. But we’re almost there. Believe brother. We got this
The issue is not this match the issue is inter will face Lazio twice
The first game against lazio will be practice and wont matter to us but will matter to Lazio.
I lived through may the 5th. Nothing can scare me. We got this. Stay possitive
If Inter don’t come out to address this refereeing atrocity, I’m going to be sooo pissed. We always want to take the high ground when these other rat teams play in the mud with their politics.
nothing wrong with the ref this game. its not his fault augusto acted like a dumbest donkey in the box.
It’s my fault. Shame on me, I wanted another goal by Thuram.
Don’t blame yourself, Akanji, Bisseck & Carlos are at fault none of them can defend.. they didn’t have to until the 60th min. As soon as called upon they are woeful.
At least Carlos has an excuse, he’s not a defender.
We’ll win against Parma. I strongly believe. 😉
Boo..bad interfan 🙂
Chill bro. We dont stop
Niko, finally you’re here. Our positive fan. 🙂
Was busy with the dinner cause the kid was getting hungry. Not a good game and a not a good ref. But it doesnt matter at this point. We’ll be champs next week
Nice, you feed the kid. 🙂
I don’t have kids. I’m alone. 😛
lol you can only laugh really,
Serie A will never be taken seriously with the level of reffing.
It’s headed down at point blank range “unnatural position” ?!? If zapata is jumping into you, having your hands down is more unnatural!
I guess C.unte is dancing now
Yeah the guy that won us the first league in a decade, got us back in champions league, made us good again and started this cycle – what an arsehole right!?
c.unte is drama
Might be true. Doesn’t change the fact he’s a turd of a person.
And brushing his hair
I can point out many games where we should have been awarded penalties like this and it was ruled out because it was “close in proximity”. Serie A is a joke of league. What disgusting showcase for these referees.
Chivu too late with subs today, even before the penalty Carlos was the worst player on the pitch.
Augusto has played bad but who you want to put in? Bastoni is hurt, Acerbi is horrible
De Vrij was on bench, Bisseck could have been moved there or even Dimarco
Bastoni isn’t hurt but just so emotionally down and I think its mutually agreed that he doesn’t get to be used especially Inter have already won the scudetto. Chivu should try to use some young players in that position
Augusto was abysmal today, we need fresh legs.
Not looking good. No win tonight.
About get screwed by referee……and we are
Someone needs to tell them it is still 71 min and must defend better Lautaro almost wanted to yell at them
Bisseck doing Bisseck things defensively- they nearly scored 2 in 2 mins because he cannot defend.
But he scored a header so everyone thinks he’s world class!
He’s a liability
Yeah, bro. We get it. You don’t like Bisseck. If he’s to be sold, that’s an easy 30-40M on our books, which is a completely normal price tag for a garbage player, am I right?
Bisseck spent half the game covering for Akanji who was constantly too far forward. You see what you want to see.
Hate to say it, beautiful counter and finish. Let’s go for third goal now to finish the game.
Dimarco 18 assists. Now win at risk.
Augusto was asleep
SOmmer should have done better
Only true inter fans commented today. Any one who will comment after my comment and didn’t comment already is not a true fan LOL mdr
Yeah. You are right. As you were at the start of the season. Don’t let me remind you again. And…keep enjoying Inter winning.
Are we relegated yet?
Dimarco 18 assists now
Dimarcos was on the screen and it said 17 assists before this so its 18
Bisseckkk
Another assist for Dimarco !!!!
And at least bonny is off for someone who will put some effort in
Bisseck 2-09
wtf bonny
I wish Thuram scores again so we’d have 2 best scorers.
and the two best assistants ! 😛
Yeah, Barella have 8 and he is second. But, some sites still says he has 7 only. 🙂
12 goals for Thuram and 17 assists for Dimarco. I thought it’s forever record, but it’s only since 2004/05.
First Half Key Stats (Approximate):
Score: Torino 0 – 1 Inter
Goal: Thuram (23′)
Possession: Torino 32% – 68% Inter
Total Shots: Torino 4 – 7 Inter
Shots on Goal: Torino 0 – 3 Inter
bonny is too slow, and cant dribble
He broke the record dimarco now
17 assists
Thurammmm
Good assist and nice header from thuram. let’s make it 6-0
Dimarco… What a player… Like I keep saying, use players on merit.. I remember wailing about his lack of minutes and his numerous loan spells… Inter lost about 5 years of his quality(ies) in the name of GAINING EXPERIENCE… ooh well, at least he was finally used…
Hopefully tonight is the night when Sommmer and Darmian gets their last minutes with us, they get ovation, in next few games same would happen with Acerbi, De Vrij and Mhiki. So some other players get minutes, and kids from Primavera, U23 team.
what’s with sommer and passing to players right next to a torino player
Win is a must. Then we can celebrate next weekend.
lets win this
Then draw would be enough to celebrate in our stadium. 🙂
A win is a must please… And we will see what happens when inter wins the scudetto; whether they’ll field in some young players, or not…
Must play all reserves to save energy for final of Coppa. 🙂
Forza Inter!