AC Milan entertain Bologna at San Siro tonight looking to rack up their fifth league win in a row, something that they haven’t done since the 2021-22 season.
Bologna are the side that Milan have played the sixth-most in their history with 183 meetings across all competitions, resulting in 87 wins, 46 draws and 50 defeats – a win rate of 47.5%.
You can read our pre-match preview here, while below are the best stats ahead of the game…
➤ Milan are unbeaten in their last 16 games against Bologna in Serie A (W13 D3) – among current Serie A teams the Rossoblu are the side against which the Devil have the longest ongoing unbeaten run against.
➤ Since the start of 2016, Bologna have lost 13 of their 17 matches against Milan in Serie A (W1 D3), more than against any other opponent in this period in the top-flight.
➤ Milan have not conceded a goal in any of their last three home matches against Bologna in Serie A – the last Rossoblu goal away against Milan was scored by Takehiro Tomiyasu in July 2020 – and they could record four clean sheets at home in a row against Bologna for the first time since between 1989-1999 (6).
➤ After a run of nine matches in which they won only three times (D3 L3), Milan have won each of their last four Serie A matches, scoring exactly three goals in the most recent three; the last time the Rossoneri had a longer run of scoring 3+ goals in successive Serie A games was in November 2011 (5 such games under Massimiliano Allegri).
➤ Bologna have lost their last two away games in Serie A, after remaining unbeaten in 10 of the previous 11 (W3 D7); they last lost three successive away Serie A games in February 2022.
➤ Milan are the side with the most goals scored in the first half in Serie A this term (23), while Bologna have conceded at least one goal during the first 45 minutes of play in each of their last three league matches.
➤ Milan have nine players with more than one goal scored in Serie A this term, more than any other team, while no other side currently in the top half of the table has fewer such players than Bologna (5 – level with Fiorentina).
➤ The next game will be the 100th as a coach in Serie A for Thiago Motta, who will become the fifth youngest coach to reach this milestone in the three points for a win era (41 years and 152 days old on the day of the game), behind only Vincenzo Montella, Roberto Mancini, Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto De Zerbi.
➤ Among the players who have played at least 400 minutes in Serie A for Milan in the three-points-for-a-win era, Noah Okafor and Luka Jovic are the two with the best min/goals ratio, with one goal every 103 minutes and one goal every 118 minutes respectively. Indeed, they are positioned ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has scored a goal every 123 minutes on average.
➤ Riccardo Calafiori is the defender who recovered possession the most per game on average, among those with at least 15 games played in Serie A this term (6.9). Furthermore, the Bologna player is fourth among defenders in Serie A this term for interceptions (32), behind only Buongiorno (42), Scalvini (39) and Djimsiti (35).
