10 STATISTICS AHEAD OF INTER V AC MILAN

Before we step out onto the pitch, let’s take a look at the numbers. This will be a special and important Derby, and as always, we’ll certainly need to fight for a result. It’s going to take hard work, focus and passion. As we await kick-off at 20:45 CET tonight, let’s prepare with ten facts about Inter v AC Milan on matchday 23 of Serie A at San Siro:

DIRECT ENCOUNTERS

1- These two sides have met for 85 Serie A Derbies with Inter at home. The Nerazzurri have won 32, the Rossoneri have won 23, and the remaining 30 have ended as draws.

CURRENT FORM

2- AC Milan go into this fixture on a run of five matches unbeaten in Serie A (3W, 2D).

3- The Rossoneri have won both of their last two away games in the league. Since the start of December, Pioli’s side have won more points away from home than any other side in Serie A (twelve).

4- This fixture takes place between two of the three sides to have kept the most clean sheets in the current Serie A, with Inter and AC Milan both joint with Hellas Verona on eight.

PLAYER FOCUS

5- Zlatan Ibrahimović has scored five goals in his seven Serie A games against Inter, including a brace on his last encounter with the Nerazzurri in May 2012. Our Swedish striker is one of just four players to have scored for both sides in the Derby, along with Ronaldo, Candiani and Meazza.

6- Since his Serie A debut in October 2015, Gigio Donnarumma boasts the second most clean sheets in the competition on 53, a figure bettered only by Samir Handanovič on 60.

7- Theo Hernández is AC Milan’s top scorer with five league goals so far. It was in this fixture that he made his Serie A debut, coming on as a substitute in the 72nd minute last September. That was our Frenchman’s only substitute appearance in the ongoing league campaign.

8- Ante Rebić has scored three goals off the bench in the league this season. In the era of three points for a win, only five AC Milan players have done better than our Croatian in this statistic: Leonardo (six), Boateng, Huntelaar, Pazzini and Robinho (four).

9- Davide Calabria’s next game will be his 100th appearance for the Rossoneri across all competitions.

COACH FOCUS

10- Stefano Pioli is set to become the seventh coach in history to have managed both sides in the Milan Derby, following in the footsteps of Zaccheroni, Trapattoni, Bigogno, Castagner, Leonardo and Radice. The current Rossoneri Coach has had 14 previous encounters with Inter in Serie A, at the helm of five different sides (Parma, Chievo, Bologna, Lazio and Fiorentina): his record is four wins, four draws and six defeats.

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