PARMA V AC MILAN: THE NUMBERS FROM THE GAME
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AC Milan scored three times and picked up three vital points in Parma this evening, an important result in the race for Champions League qualification. Goals from Rebić, Kessie and Leão secured the Rossoneri’s fourth consecutive away win, with the team building on their highly impressive record on the road. There are many interesting facts to come out of the matchday 30 showdown, and they can be found below:
1- AC Milan have won 13 away games this season in Serie A, a record for the Rossoneri in a single top-flight campaign.
2- AC Milan have won 16 games away from home in all competitions this season. They’ve never done better than this in a single campaign after also previously achieving this feat in 1992/93 and 2014/15.
3- AC Milan have won 13 of their first 15 games away from home in the 2020/21 Serie A season (86.7%): in the history of the Top 5 European Leagues, only Athletic Bilbao (88.9% in 1932/33) and Bayern Munich (88.2% in 2012/13) have had a better winning ratio on the road in a single campaign.
4- AC Milan have scored 20 Serie A goals during the first 30 minutes of play this season, a joint record (alongside Roma).
5- Ante Rebić has scored 16 of his 17 Serie A goals for AC Milan in the second half of the season. He's the second Croatian player to have found the net for the Rossoneri against Parma in the Italian top flight, with Zvonimir Boban previously bagging a brace in November 1999.
6- Franck Kessie has become the fifth non-Italian midfielder to score at least ten goals for AC Milan in a single top-flight campaign, with Kaká, Leonardo, Nils Liedholm and Gunnar Gren having previously done this. The Ivorian is the first AC Milan midfielder to reach double figures in the first 30 matchdays of a single Serie A campaign since Kaká in 2008/09.
7- Furthermore, the Ivorian midfielder is the AC Milan player who has scored the most goals in Serie A in 2021.
8- Zlatan Ibrahimović won his 300th match in the Top 5 European Leagues this evening (170 in Serie A, 88 in Ligue 1, 24 in La Liga and 18 in the Premier League). The Swede provided his third assist against Parma in Serie A: previously, he set up Patrick Vieira and Clarence Seedorf to score for Juventus in 2005 and AC Milan in 2011 respectively.
9- Rafael Leão is the second youngest player to have scored more than five goals in Serie A in each of the past two seasons.
10- Theo Hernández has become the first AC Milan defender to provide at least five assists in a single Serie A campaign since Ignazio Abate did so in 2014/15.
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