AC Milan face Hellas Verona at the Stadio Bentegodi on Sunday afternoon, hoping to keep up an excellent streak against them.
Milan have played against Hellas Verona 81 times in competitive games across their nearly 127-year history, with 39 wins, 28 draws and just 14 defeats. Recently though the shift is clear to see, with the Rossoneri having won 10 in a row against the team from Veneto.
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Last season, the Diavolo did the double over the Gialloblu, winning both games 1-0. In the away game just before Christmas, Tijjani Reijnders got the only goal from a Youssouf Fofana assist, while at San Siro Santiago Gimenez got the winner.
It is a big opportunity for Milan against a side that are having some real difficulties this year and currently look certain to return to Serie B. Below are the best pre match stats ahead of the 15:00 CEST kick-off.
Key facts and stats
➤ AC Milan have won all of their last ten Serie A matches against Hellas Verona, with a score of 22-6. So far, the Rossoneri have only won more than ten consecutive Serie A games against one opponent in their history: against Chievo (13).
➤ Milan have scored in 25 of their last 26 Serie A matches against Hellas Verona (48 goals in total, 1.85 on average per game), with the only exception being their last defeat against the Gialloblù in the competition (3-0 at the Bentegodi, with goals from Antonio Caracciolo, Moise Kean and Daniel Bessa, on 17th December 2017).
➤ Milan have won their last six away games at the Bentegodi against Hellas Verona in Serie A, also keeping three clean sheets in the process. In their previous eight away games against Hellas Verona in the competition, the Rossoneri had only managed two wins (D2 L4).
➤ Hellas Verona have lost their last four Serie A matches and have not recorded a worse run in the competition since a sequence of five defeats between October and November 2023, under Marco Baroni.
➤ Milan have lost their last two Serie A matches without scoring; the Rossoneri have not suffered three consecutive defeats in the competition since March 2025, and have not lost three games in a row without finding the net since April 1967. Furthermore, Massimiliano Allegri has not overseen three consecutive defeats as a manager in the top- flight since April 2023, when he was in charge of Juventus.
➤ Milan finished the first half of this Serie A season with an average of 2.2 points per match, a figure that has dropped to 1.6 in the second half. Considering only from the 20th matchday onwards, the Rossoneri would be in seventh place, with 21 points from 13 games (the same as Roma).
➤ Among the top six teams in the Serie A table, Milan have the largest negative difference (-5.83) between goals scored (47) and expected goals (52.83), and also the lowest big chance conversion rate (just 33.7%).
➤ Hellas Verona continue to be the side who have scored the fewest goals in the last 15 minutes of play in Serie A this season (just one goal, Gift Orban’s against Fiorentina on 14th December) and the side who have conceded the most goals from the 76th minute onwards (18). The Veneto side have conceded seven goals from the 90th minute onwards, another negative record in the current tournament.
➤ This is the Serie A season in which Rafael Leão – who has never scored at the Bentegodi against Hellas Verona in the top-flight – has recorded both his lowest successful take-ons per game average (0.88) and his lowest take-on success rate (40.4%).
➤ Christian Pulisic’s last Serie A goal was against Hellas Verona at the Meazza on 28th December 2025; since then, the American has gone 14 consecutive appearances in the competition without scoring. This is his longest goal drought in Serie A and his longest overall since 16 consecutive matches with Chelsea in the Premier League between October 2022 and May 2023.
