10 FACTS ON AC MILAN v BOLOGNA

The next visitors to San Siro will be Bologna, who currently sit in twelfth place in the league on 33 points. Matchday 31 is here, and the Rossoneri are required to win in front of their home crowd in order to stay top of the pile. AC Milan have won each of their last five games against Bologna at San Siro and hope to extend that run tomorrow evening. Here are some facts and figures as the match draws nearer:

PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS

1- AC Milan and Bologna are set to meet in Serie A for the 148th time, with the Rossoneri winning 71 and losing 38 of those games. 38 draws complete the picture. AC Milan are the team that the Rossoblù have conceded the most goals against in the Italian top flight (237).

2- AC Milan have won each of their last six fixtures against Bologna in Serie A (scoring 18 goals, at least two in every match) and eleven of the last twelve league meetings between the two sides.

3- On both of the previous occasions that the two teams met on a Monday, the Rossoneri emerged victorious: 2-1 on 6 May 2019 and 2-0 on 21 September 2020.

STATE OF PLAY

4- A victory in this match would see AC Milan move up to 69 points after 31 matches. This would represent the third-best tally for the Rossoneri at that stage of the season since the start of the three-points-per-win era (70 points in 2005/06 and 76 in 2003/04).

GENERAL STATS

5- AC Milan are the team that have scored the most goals from outside the box this Serie A season: eleven, including their last two in the league: Kalulu against Empoli and Bennacer against Cagliari.

6- This match pits the team that have scored the most goals in the first 30 minutes of play (AC Milan, 21) against the side that have netted the fewest in this time period (Bologna, four).

PLAYER FOCUS

7- Zlatan Ibrahimović has been involved in ten goals (seven goals and three assists) in ten Serie A matches against Bologna. Since his return to AC Milan, he’s scored three times (including the one he bagged earlier on this campaign) and provided two assists in four fixtures against the Rossoblù. With a goal tally of eight, the Swedish striker also has a prolific record in Monday matches in Serie A. Gonzalo Higuaín is the only player to have done better in the history of the Italian top flight (twelve) in this regard.

8- Olivier Giroud has eight goals to his name this Serie A campaign. The only time the Frenchman has done better in a single season in the Top 5 European leagues was in 2016/17, when he bagged twelve for Arsenal.

9- Alexis Saelemaekers and Ismaël Bennacer’s first Serie A goals came against Bologna in July 2020. The Algerian has found the net three times in the Italian top flight, with two of these finishes coming against the Rossoblù (including in the reverse fixture this season). Furthermore, Fikayo Tomori made his Serie A debut against Bologna at the Dall’Ara in January 2021.

COACH FOCUS 

10- Stefano Pioli is set to take charge of his 100th Serie A match since his arrival at AC Milan. Since the start of the three-points-per-win era (from 1994/95), he’s the tactician who has had the best points-per-game average in the Rossoneri dugout: 2.04. Pioli, who coached Bologna for 89 Serie A matches between 2011 and 2014, reached the 100-game milestone for AC Milan in all competitions in the reverse fixture against the Rossoblù earlier on this season.

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