AC Milan travel to the capital to face Roma at the Stadio Olimpico tonight hoping to continue their positive recent trend in this fixture.
Read SempreMilan ad-free and get access to exclusive news. Click here for a free trial!
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.
