10 FACTS ON AC MILAN V LAZIO

It's never been an easy ride hosting Lazio at San Siro, both in the league and the Coppa Italia. A victory in the fixture, which the Rossoneri have been lacking for a year and a half, would be huge in terms of standings at the end of the season. This is a real six-pointer given the standard of opposition and the coming Christmas break, and also due the Rossoneri's recent run - the 2-0 win over Fiorentina excluded - of poor form at home. Ahead of kick-off (20:45 CET), let's take a look at ten facts pertaining to Serie A matchday 14:

HEAD-TO-HEAD
1-  AC Milan have scored in their last 16 league games against Lazio, the Rossoneri have only gone on a better run against Cagliari (21) of sides currently competing in the top flight of Italian football.
2- After the 3-0 win in July, AC Milan could win two consecutive Serie A matches against Lazio for the first time since 2009 (three in that case).

RECORD AT SAN SIRO
3- This is the 78th meeting in Serie A between the two with the Rossoneri as the home team: AC Milan have won 44 of these to the Biancocelesti's ten - 23 draws conplete the picture.
4- AC Milan are unbeaten in 29 of their last 30 home games against Lazio in Serie A (18W, 11 D), having lost the most recent meeting between the two at the Meazza (November 2019). The Biancocelesti have never won in two consecutive away games against the Rossoneri in the league.

CURRENT FORM
5- AC Milan are unbeaten in their last 25 games in Serie A, their best unbeaten run since 1993 (with Fabio Capello in charge) - the last game without a loss in that run of 58 matches unbeaten was a 2-2 draw against Lazio.

GENERAL STATS
6- AC Milan have scored two or more goals in each of their last 15 Serie A matches and could become just the second team in the history of Europe's Top-5 leagues to make it 16 games in a row in a single calendar year with more than one goal scored (after Barcelona's run of 18 games in 1948).
7- AC Milan have scored more goals in the first 30 minutes of games in Serie A this season (10) than any other side. Lazio, meanwhile, have conceded 65% of their goals against in the first half of games - more than any other team.

PLAYER FOCUS
8- Rafael Leão is the youngest player in Europe's Top-5 leagues to have scored at least three goals in each of the last three seasons and is the only one of these born after 1/1/1999.
9- Hakan Çalhanoğlu has created the most chances this season (49). What's more, the Turk has hit the woodwork more times (four) than any other player in Serie A this season.

COACHES
10- Stefano Pioli made 69 appearances as a coach for Lazio in Serie A: as a coach, he has won the most Serie A games with Lazio (32) - he is currently on 25 wins with AC Milan.

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