AC Milan entertain Roma at San Siro tonight hoping to put the disappointment of Wednesday’s Coppa Italia defeat to Atalanta behind them.
There are only three teams that Milan have played more competitive games against than Roma (Juventus, Inter and Torino). The teams have met 196 times, with 83 wins for the Rossoneri, 62 draws and 57 victories for the capital club.
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➤ Roma are winless in their last eight Serie A matches against Milan (D3 L5), since a 2-1 victory in October 2019.
➤ Milan are unbeaten in their last five home Serie A games against Roma (W3 D2), including the draw 2-2 last season; the Giallorossi’s last win at the Meazza stadium against the Rossoneri was back on 1st October 2017.
➤ In each of the last seven Serie A matches between Milan and Roma, both teams have scored (25 goals in total, 3.6 on average per match); the last clean sheet was recorded by the Rossoneri in the 2-0 on 28th June 2020.
➤ In the last seven Serie A matchdays, Milan have picked up 16 points (W5 D1 L1), keeping four clean sheets: in the period only Inter and Juventus (both 17) gained more points.
➤ Roma have lost (without scoring) in their last two away Serie A games: they could lose three consecutive away league games for the first time since September-October 2021; the last time they registered three defeats on the road in a row without scoring in Serie A was back in March 2005.
➤ Milan have registered the most direct attacks in Serie A this season (41), while Roma are 19th in this ranking (17); however, the Rossoneri (four) and the Giallorossi (three) are two of the first five teams for goals scored by direct attacks.
➤ Since Josè Mourinho joined Roma, the Giallorossi have always lost the first match of the second half of the season (20th match in Serie A): defeat against Milan at the Meazza stadium in 2021/22 and defeat against Napoli at Maradona stadium in 2022-23.
➤ Olivier Giroud – who scored a penalty in the reverse match against Roma – has netted nine goals in the current league season; the last Milan player to score at least 10 goals in three Serie A campaigns in a row was Alexandre Pato (between 2008-09 and 2010-11).
➤ Roma’s Romelu Lukaku has scored in each of the four games he has started against AC Milan in Serie A; the Belgian closed this first half of the season with eight goals scored in 16 league appearances, four less than in the first half of 2020-21 season (12) and six less than in 2019-20 (14) – last season he played only seven matches, scoring one goal, in the first 19 Serie A games played by his club.
➤ Roma’s Paulo Dybala has been involved in 12 goals in Serie A against AC Milan (seven goals and five assists), only against Udinese (19) he has had a hand in more. However, his last goal against the Rossoneri in Serie A was back on 10th November 2019 (1-0 with Juventus).
