AC Milan are looking to get their Serie A campaign back on track today as they take on Hellas Verona at the San Siro in the first game of a busy Saturday.
Having lost 5-1 to Inter in the Derby della Madonnina, there was an improvement against Newcastle in the Champions League but still no goals. That has to change today against Verona. You can read our pre-match preview here, while below are the best stats ahead of the game…
➤ AC Milan have won each of their last five league matches against Hellas Verona, always scoring at least two goals: this is already the Rossoneri’s longest winning streak against the Gialloblù in Serie A.
➤ Among the sides against which AC Milan are unbeaten in Serie A home matches, Hellas Verona is the team against which the Rossoneri have played the most matches at Meazza in the competition: 31 – 18 wins and 13 draws.
➤ The last team from Veneto to win at Meazza against AC Milan in Serie A was Vicenza on
September 28, 1997: 0-1 under Francesco Guidolin (and Fabio Capello as Rossoneri manager), thanks to Arturo Di Napoli’s goal.
➤ Following the defeat against Inter, AC Milan could lose back-to-back league matches for the first time since the start of February 2023 (three in that case): furthermore, the Rossoneri have conceded at least one goal in each of their last three Serie A games and could go four meetings in a row without keeping a clean sheet for the first time since February 2023 (seven in that case).
➤ Hellas Verona have picked up seven points in Serie A this season: in the era of three points for win, they collected at least seven points in their first four Serie A seasonal matches only twice: eight in 2014/15 and seven in 2020/21.
➤ AC Milan have attempted the fewest crosses (26) in the current Serie A season; despite this, the Rossoneri are one of the nine teams to have scored at least one goal from a cross (Rafael Leão, thanks to Calabria’s assist against Roma).
➤ Only Inter (0) have conceded fewer goals than Hellas Verona in their first half in Serie A this season and in general only Inter and Juventus have conceded fewer goals than the Gialloblù (4 goals) in the league this campaign.
➤ Only Lautaro Martínez (12) has scored more goals than Olivier Giroud and Rafael Leão (both nine) in Serie A since April 2023: the Portuguese (brace) and the Frenchman (one goal from a penalty) both found the net in AC Milan’s last same against Hellas Verona (3-1 on June 4, 2023).
➤ AC Milan have an average of 2.2 points per game in Serie A with Fikayo Tomori on the pitch since he made his debut for the Rossoneri (January 30, 2021, 84 games), while they have an average of 1.1 in the 15 games without him; while AC Milan’s win percentage is 66.7% with him vs 26.7% without the Englishman.
➤ AC Milan is the favourite opponent of Davide Faraoni in Serie A: three goals scored against the Rossoneri in the competition, two of those at Meazza (one in his last match on June); in particular, two of his last three goals in the top-flight came against AC Milan.
