COPPA ITALIA: 10 FACTS ABOUT AC MILAN V JUVENTUS

Juventus are coming, the Coppa Italia is heating up. A first leg at home will not be decisive, but it will be important and delicate, and everything certainly shouldn’t be left for the second leg. On the day of the first leg of this semi-final, let’s find out ten facts about this big game which takes places at 20:45 CET at San Siro.

PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS AT SAN SIRO

1- Over the nine matches between AC Milan and Juventus at San Siro in the Coppa Italia, each side has three wins, three draws make up the rest.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

2- AC Milan and Juventus have faced up 25 times in the Coppa Italia, with seven Rossoneri wins, eleven Bianconeri wins, and seven draws.

3- AC Milan v Juventus is the second most played game in the history of the Coppa Italia (played 25 times); second to Juventus v Inter (31 times).

THE FORM GUIDE

4- AC Milan are on an unbeaten streak at home of seven games in all competitions (three wins, four draws), which is the Rossoneri’s best streak in a season since January 2017 where they went nine home games unbeaten.

5- Over the round of 16 and quarter-finals of this year’s Coppa Italia, AC Milan are the team with the most shots on goal, 42, nine more than their Bianconeri opponents.

GENERAL STATS

6- Including this current season, Juventus (32 times) and AC Milan (23) are two of the three teams who have appeared most in Coppa Italia semi-finals. And since their first game in this year’s tournament, they are the two sides who have scored the most goals (seven goals each).

7- The Rossoneri have qualified from two of their last three Coppa Italia semi-finals.

PLAYER FOCUS

8- In the last game of the Coppa Italia against Torino, Hakan Çalhanoğlu scored more than once for the first time for the Rossoneri. Moreover, all his five goals this season have come at home.

9- Gianluigi Donnarumma has played in 164 Serie A gams and it was against Juventus in March 2017 that he equalled his record number of saves in a single match (ten saves) in the competition (the other game in which he made ten saves was against Verona in April 2016).

10- David Calabria’s next appearance will be his 100th in all competitions for the Rossoneri.

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