Cerci stalls Roma’s stunning league start

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Had the runaway Serie A leaders clinched an 11th straight win they would have lived up to Tottenham’s achievement of the 1960/61 season, in which Spurs opened a double-winning campaign with the same run of victories before drawing with Manchester City.

Kevin Strootman set the Giallorossi on their way to emulating the Londoners’ record, but Rudi Garcia’s men appeared a little off the boil in Turin and soon found themselves under siege from a determined Torino side.