AC Milan host Venezia in their first Serie A home game of the season, and also their first under Ruben Amorim.
Milan began the Amorim era in positive fashion as they emerged from a potentially tricky trip to face Torino with three points. Now, attention shifts to facing a newly-promoted team that lost in round one to Lecce, but put in a better showing than the scoreline suggests.
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Milan and Venezia have faced each other 33 times, with the first meetings being all the way back in 1936-37. The Rossoneri have been victorious in in 22 of these, with seven draws and four wins for the Lagunari. In 2024-25, Milan won 4-0 at home and 2-0 away to record a comprehensive double.
AC Milan vs. Venezia: Key facts and stats
➤ AC Milan have won all of their last five Serie A matches against Venezia, scoring at least two goals on each occasion and keeping a clean sheet in the last four, which is their longest run of consecutive clean sheets against them in the competition.
➤ Venezia have lost 18 Serie A matches against AC Milan (W4 D6 L18); they have not suffered more defeats against any other side in the top-flight, level with the 18 losses against Juventus.
➤ Milan are unbeaten in their last 10 Serie A home matches against Venezia (W8 D2); among current top-flight teams, the Rossoneri have a longer ongoing unbeaten home run only against Lecce (14) and Torino (30), while they also have a 10-game streak against Bologna.
➤ Milan lost their first home game of last season’s Serie A campaign (1-2 against Cremonese), ending a run of 11 consecutive wins and one draw; the Rossoneri have not lost their first home match in two consecutive seasons since 2008-2009, when they were defeated by Bologna and Inter respectively; that was also the last time they went three years in a row without a win (a draw in 2007).
➤ Venezia have not won one of their opening two Serie A matches since 1946; since then, across 19 games played in nine different seasons plus the current one, they have recorded a balance of five draws and 14 defeats.
➤ Venezia have participated in the most seasons in the Italian top-flight (14) without ever winning their opening away game of the tournament (D3 L11).
➤ Ruben Amorim won his debut against Torino, and eight AC Milan managers have won their first two Serie A matches after making their debut at the start of the season; of these, only two have done so in the three-points-for-a-win era: Alberto Zaccheroni in 1998 and Filippo Inzaghi in 2014.
➤ Milan attempted 19 shots on MD1 of the Serie A season, all of which came from inside the box; this is at least six more shots from inside the box than any other team in the competition this season.
➤ Alphadjo Cissè scored his first Serie A goal for AC Milan aged 19 years and 305 days; should he score against Venezia, he would become the youngest player to score in his first two Serie A appearances for the Rossoneri in the three-points-for-a-win era (19 years and 310 days), surpassing the record held by Mario Balotelli and Andriy Shevchenko, who achieved this aged 22.
➤ Venezia were one of only two teams (alongside Bologna, 1.78) not to score on the opening matchday of this Serie A season despite registering an Expected Goals value of more than one (2.05). Venezia also had seven players attempt at least two shots in that match, more than any other side (Hainaut, Franjic, Rrahmani, Yeboah, Correia, Busio, Adams).
