Rabiot’s two minutes: how Milan cracked Torino open in 120 seconds

Torino 1-2 Milan flattered the hosts more than the scoreline suggests. Milan had 59% of the ball, 19 shots — every single one from inside the box — and 1.61 expected goals to Torino’s 1.01. For an hour they pressed without a breakthrough, the familiar frustration of a side doing everything but scoring.

Then it turned on Adrien Rabiot inside 120 seconds. On 64 minutes he laid on the opener for Alphadjo Cissè; two minutes later he scored himself, finishing a Samuel Chukwueze delivery. Two goals, one player at the heart of both, and a game that had been stubbornly level was suddenly won. That is the swing a midfielder in this form provides.

Che Adams pulled one back in the 90th minute from a Gvidas Gineitis assist, and Torino’s 1.01 xG says they were not a world away on chances. But a single shot on target all night tells the real story: they threatened rarely and cleanly took nothing until the game was already gone.

Milan will be pleased with the control even if the finishing took its time; 19 shots inside the box is a platform that wins most weeks. But this was Rabiot’s afternoon — the assist and the goal in the same two-minute window that separated a stalemate from three points on the road.