10 FACTS ON FIORENTINA V AC MILAN

A fixture with a lot of history and a chance to pick up important points in the fight for Champions League football: Fiorentina v AC Milan, matchday 28 in Serie A, is also the Rossoneri's final match before the impending international break. As we approach the game, with kick-off set for 18:00 CET at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, here a few stats from previous meetings between the Viola and Rossoneri:

HEAD-TO-HEAD
1- The two sides have met 161 times in Serie A: AC Milan have won 73 against Fiorentina (44 draws, 44 defeats). The Rossoneri have scored more goals (250) in the top flight against the Viola than against any other team.

2- On 31 May 2009, Paolo Maldini played - in Florence against Fiorentina - the final game of his career. The game ended 2-0 to AC Milan. Maldini made a total of 902 competitive appearances for the Club, a record in Rossoneri history.

3- Three of the last four meetings between the two in Serie A at the Franchi have ended in a draw (one win for the Rossoneri). The last time the Viola won at home in the league to AC Milan was in August 2015. 

CURRENT FORM
4- AC Milan have won eleven of their 13 away games in the league this season (D1, L1). In the history of Serie A, only on four occasions has a team won twelve of their first 14 away games in a single season: Inter in 2006/07, Juventus in 2017/18 and in 2018/19 and Napoli in 2017/18.

GENERAL STATS
5- AC Milan have conceded nine goals in the first half of games in Serie A this season, the lowest of any team in the competition. Only Paris Saint-Germain (7) and Atlético Madrid (8) have done better in the first 45 minutes of games in Europe's Top-5 leagues this season.

6- AC Milan have had 15 different goalscorers in the current league campaign, one more than in the whole of 2019/20 (14). The last time the Rossoneri had more in a single Serie A season was in 2014/15 (17).

PLAYER FOCUS
7- Apart from the Meazza, Hakan Çalhanoğlu has scored more goals at the Franchi than on any other ground in Serie A: two goals in three trips to Florence. Fiorentina are also the Turk's favourite victim in the league with three goals.

8- Only Ciro Immobile (14) has brought more points to his team thanks to his goals than Zlatan Ibrahimović (13). The Swedish striker has had a hand in 12 goals in 14 career games against Fiorentina: eight goals and four assists. However, his last goal at the Franchi in the league was in September 2006 as an Inter player, 14 years and 193 days ago. 

9- Ciprian Tătărușanu made 81 of his 82 Serie A appearances wearing the Fiorentina jersey between 2015 and 2017. 

COACH FOCUS
10- Before coming to AC Milan, Stefano Pioli's last club as a coach was Fiorentina: 69 games in Serie A with the Viola between 2017 and 2019 (W24, D24, L21).

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