10 FACTS ON CAGLIARI V AC MILAN

The last away game of the first half of the season, the first one after three consecutive games played at San Siro. Cagliari await AC Milan at the Sardegna Arena for a Monday night fixture in Serie A: it's a showdown between the league leaders and a team without a win in ten games. Kick-off will be at 20:45 CET: while we wait, let's have a look to the main stats and facts on the clash.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

1- Cagliari have been defeated by AC Milan more than any other side in Serie A: 42 times in 76 games 8W, 26D) and 24 of these defeats have come from 2004/05 to now.

2- Cagliari have won just one of their last 33 Serie A games against AC Milan (7D, 25L); their last win against the Rossoneri was in May 2017.

3- AC Milan have scored in 21 consecutive games against Cagliari in Serie A: the last time the Sardinian outfit kept a clean sheet against the Rossoneri was in October 2008, with Massimiliano Allegri at the helm and Federico Marchetti between the sticks.

CURRENT FORM

4- AC Milan are unbeaten in their last nine Serie A games played on a Monday (5W, 4D), after having lost three of the previous four (1D).

5- From the start of 2020 to today, no team in Europe's Top-5 leagues has picked up more points away from home than AC Milan (43, level with Bayern Munich). Furthermore, the Rossoneri could equal their best-ever run without an away defeat in Serie A in the three-points-per-win era: 16 matches, between September 2003 and April 2004.

6- AC Milan have picked up 40 points in their first 17 league games this season; in the three-points-per-win era, every team that had 40 points at this stage of the season finished in the top four. It was Lazio in 2017/18, who, with 36 points, were the team with the most points at this stage of the season - since 1994/95 - not to finish in the top four.

PLAYER FOCUS

7- Zlatan Ibrahimović has scored in each of his last six games in the league against Cagliari; only one player has scored in more consecutive games against a single opponent in Serie A in the three-points-per-win era: Christian Vieri against Perugia (eight games between 1999 and 2003). Furthermore, the Swede has scored in all of his last eight appearances as a starter in the league with AC Milan; should he score, he would set a new personal best for goals in consecutive starts in Europe's Top-5 leagues, beating two runs of eight: 2009 (split between Inter and Barcelona) and 2016 (six with PSG and two with Manchester Utd).

8- Among the goalkeepers in this Serie A season with at least 15 appearances, only Marco Silvestri (75.4%) boasts a better save percentage than Gianluigi Donnarumma (72.9%) and Cragno (68.2%).

9- Simon Kjær's last Serie A goal was in December 2009 against Cagliari as a Palermo player.

COACH FOCUS

10- Stefano Pioli has won more Serie A games (nine) as a coach against Cagliari than against any other team: four draws and as many defeat complete the picture.

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