AC Milan travel to the capital to face Roma at the Stadio Olimpico tonight hoping to continue their positive recent trend in this fixture.
Roma are the team that Milan have played the fourth-most of any club across all competitions. They have met them 195 times with 82 wins, 62 draws and 51 defeats, at a win rate of 42.1%. Last season, the teams played out 2-2 and 1-1 draws at San Siro and the Olimpico respectively.
You can read our pre-match preview here, while below are the best stats ahead of the game…
➤ Milan are unbeaten in 10 of their last 11 Serie A matches (W6 D4) against Roma – always scoring at least one goal – with their only defeat coming in October 2019 (2-1).
➤ Roma are unbeaten in eight (W4, D4) of their last 11 home league games against AC Milan; however they have lost two of their most recent three (D1) in Serie A. No team have won more away matches against the Giallorossi in the league than Milan (30).
➤ Milan are one of the three teams (along with Napoli and Venezia) against which José Mourinho’s Roma have never won in Serie A (D2 L2), while only against Lazio and Inter (three) have they lost more times.
➤ Roma have picked up one point in their first two league games (D1, L1); the last Serie A season they started without winning in their first three league matches was in 2011-12 (D2 L1).
➤ Milan have won their first two league games and could win each of their first three Serie A matches for the third time in their last four Serie A editions, as many as in their previous 29.
➤ Roma have conceded the fewest shots in the ‘top five’ European leagues (8) this season; however, they’ve conceded from 50% of those efforts (4), the worst ratio.
➤ No team have conceded more goals from open play than Roma in Serie A this season (four, level with Frosinone). On the other hand, no side have scored more goals in open play than Milan (four, level with Fiorentina, Inter, Lecce and Napoli).
➤ Stefano Pioli (298) is close to earning 300 points as Milan manager in Serie A: with a win he could become the second manager to reach this milestone for the Rossoneri in the era of three points for win, after Carlo Ancelotti (557).
➤ Roma striker Andrea Belotti has scored four goals in his last six home appearances against Milan in Serie A (last goal in September 2019); furthermore, after his brace on MD1 against Salernitana, he could find the net in back-to-back home games in the competition for the first time since December 2020.
➤ Olivier Giroud has scored three goals in Serie A this season; the last Milan player to find the net more times in the first three league matches of a season for the Rossoneri was Andriy Shevchenko in 2001-02 (four).
➤ He could score in six appearances in a row in the big five European leagues for the second time in his career, doing so between February and April 2015 for Arsenal.
