AC Milan will take on Juventus at San Siro this evening hoping to respond after a disappointing midweek defeat against Chelsea in the Champions League.
A sold out San Siro will see two of Serie A’s most decorated clubs go head to head, and the objective will be bouncing back after the recent damaging defeats to Napoli and Chelsea that came either side of a dramatic late win at Empoli.
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You can read our pre-match preview here, while below are the best stats ahead of the game…
➤ Milan are the side against which Juventus have drawn (56) and won (51) the most Serie A matches: they have won 67 of their 174 meetings against the Rossoneri.
➤ Milan and Juventus drew both of their Serie A matches last season, only twice in their history have they drawn at least three games in a row in the competition: between 1972 and 1973 (four) and between 1938 and 1939 (four).
➤ Milan have gone unbeaten in four of their last five Serie A meetings against Juventus (W2 D2) after having lost 13 of the previous 14 (W1).
➤ Juventus have won six of their last nine Serie A meetings against Milan at the Meazza Stadium (D1 L2), scoring twice the number of goals that they have conceded in the process (14 vs 7).
➤ Milan (two) and Juventus (four) are two of the three sides to have lost the fewest Serie A matches in 2022, alongside Napoli (three), considering the teams to have played both seasons in
the process.
➤ After having won six successive Serie A home matches, Milan lost their last game at the San Siro Stadium; under Stefano Pioli, they have never lost two such games in a row (the last time was back in September 2019, under Marco Giampaolo).
➤ Juventus have picked up two points in three Serie A away matches this season (D2 L1): in the previous 40 Serie A campaigns, only in 1993/94 have they failed to win each of their first four such games in a single season.
➤ Since he joined Milan in 2019/20, Ante Rebic has scored four goals against Juventus in all competitions, no other player has scored more against them in the period (also four Giovanni
Simeone and Ruslan Malinovskyi).
➤ Rafael Leão has been involved in the most Serie A goals in 2022 (22: 11 goals + 11 assists) – since 2004/05, only two AC Milan players have had a hand in more league goals in a single calendar year: Kaká in 2008 (27: 15+12) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2020 (26: 20+6).
➤ This match will see two of the three players with the best mins/goals ratio in Serie A this season (min. 2 goals): Ante Rebic (one goal every 49 on average) and Arkadiusz Milik (one goal every 78) – the other one is Beto (one every 66 minutes).
➤ Only at the Mapei Stadium (four) has Dusan Vlahovic played more Serie A matches without finding the net than at the Meazza (three matches).
