10 FACTS ON AC MILAN v FIORENTINA

A hugely important fixture awaits at San Siro tomorrow, with AC Milan set to take on Fiorentina on matchday 35 of the 2021/22 Serie A season. It’s a game that the Rossoneri can’t afford to get wrong with both their morale and especially with the league table in mind. Here are the best pre-match stats:

DIRECT ENCOUNTERS

1- AC Milan have scored at least two goals in each of their last three Serie A fixtures against Fiorentina. They haven’t gone on a longer top-flight run against the Viola in this regard since the six-game streak they achieved between 1992 and 1996.

2- AC Milan have won four of their last five Serie A matches against Fiorentina in the month of May (D1), conceding just one goal in the process (in their 5-1 win in 2018).

PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS IN MILAN

3- After their 2-0 success last season, AC Milan could keep two consecutive home clean sheets against Fiorentina in the Italian top flight for the first time since 2010, when they recorded three successive shutouts.

STATE OF PLAY

4- Since the start of 2022, AC Milan have conceded just eight goals in 15 Serie A matches. This means they have the second-best defensive record in the Top 5 European leagues this calendar year, behind Liverpool (six).

5- AC Milan are currently on the longest unbeaten run in the league: twelve matches, following seven wins and five draws. The Rossoneri’s last defeat was their 2-1 home loss against Spezia on 17 January.

6- AC Milan have kept clean sheets in each of their last three home matches in the league. They haven’t recorded four successive Serie A shutouts at San Siro since March 2019, when Gennaro Gattuso was in the dugout.

GENERAL STATS

7- No team has scored more goals than AC Milan in the opening 15 minutes of matches this Serie A season (twelve). Fiorentina, meanwhile, have the worst record in this regard (three).

8- No team has scored more goals from outside the box than AC Milan in Serie A this season: eleven, the same as Napoli and Udinese.

PLAYER FOCUS 

9- Rafael Leão could become the fifth Portuguese player to reach double figures in a single Serie A season, after Cristiano Ronaldo, Rui Barros, Rui Costa and Beto. Out of this group, however, he’d be the only one to achieve this before the age of 23. 

10- Fiorentina are the team against whom Zlatan Ibrahimović has scored the most goals (eleven, the same number he’s netted against Roma) and achieved the most goal contributions (15, thanks to four assists) in Serie A. His brace in the reverse fixture (a 4-3 win for the Viola) is the only time he’s found the net more than once in a single Serie A game this season.

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