AC Milan managed to get out of Cremona with all three points on Sunday afternoon, but it took two late goals to achieve the win.
As the clock ticked past 89 minutes with the score still 0-0, Milan must have feared yet more dropped points against a side battling relegation. However, Strahinja Pavlovic scored from a corner and Rafael Leao finished a counter-attack, as Milan ended up winning 2-0.
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The clean sheet will also please Massimiliano Allegri as the Rossoneri also widened the gap to Como in fifth place back to nine points. Below are the best stats from the game.
Total domination
The end is more important than the means, but Milan deserved the win by every metric. They had a whopping seven big chances, 20 total shots and six shots on targets, which led to an Expected Goals number of 3.51.
However, Allegri will be annoyed that Cremonese had spells on top in the game, with 15 shots and three on target, plus six corners for the hosts and 0.99 xG.
Positive numbers
Milan have won seven of their last nine away matches in Serie A (2D) and kept a clean sheet in four of them.
Milan are one of the two teams yet to lose away in the current ‘top five’ European leagues, alongside Bayern Munich. It’s the second time in the three-points-for-a-win era (1994-95) that the Rossoneri remain unbeaten in the first 14 away Serie A matches of the season: the other was in 2003-04, when the first away defeat came in the 17th match against Reggina.
Today was clean sheet number 12 for Milan this season: only Inter (15) and Como (13) have achieved more so far, with Roma and Lazio also on 12.
Pavlo and Rafa
Strahinja Pavlović scored his third league goal of the season (in 23 appearances), surpassing his tally of two goals (in 24 games) achieved in the last Serie A campaign.
Rafael Leão has scored 9 goals in the league in 2025-26 (in 20 appearances) and has surpassed the eight goals scored last season (in 34 appearances).
