8 FACTS ON AC MILAN V BENEVENTO

May is when everything will be decided. For AC Milan, the month will begin with a showdown against Filippo Inzaghi’s Benevento at San Siro. It’s a crucial fixture for both sides, who aren’t enjoying the best of runs and are eager to put things right. Ahead of the Rossoneri’s penultimate home match of the season at 20:45 CEST this evening, here are some facts and figures that you need to know.

PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS

1- AC Milan and Benevento have faced each other three times in Serie A. The Rossoneri have won once, drawn once and lost once against the Stregoni.

GENERAL STATISTICS 

2- AC Milan have scored the most goals in the opening 30 minutes of matches this Serie A season (22, the same as Roma). Benevento, meanwhile, have conceded the most in the same period (25).

3- AC Milan (25) and Benevento (20, level with Sassuolo) are two of the three teams that have scored the most goals from dead ball situations so far this Serie A campaign.

4- Along with Napoli, AC Milan have conceded the fewest goals in the first half of matches in the league this season (twelve). Only Crotone (41) have shipped more than Benevento (34) before half-time.

PLAYER FOCUS 

5- Should he score against Benevento, Zlatan Ibrahimović would become the first player to find the net against 80 different teams in the Top Five European leagues since the turn of the century.

6- Having found the net on ten occasions, Franck Kessie is AC Milan’s second-highest goalscorer in the league this season. The Ivorian, who bagged against Benevento in the reverse fixture, is one of two midfielders to have reached double figures in terms of goals during the current Serie A campaign (the other is Roma’s Jordan Veretout).

7- Hakan Çalhanoğlu has created the most chances this Serie A season: 89, at least 15 more than any other player.

COACH FOCUS

8- Filippo Inzaghi's Serie A coaching career began in the AC Milan dugout against Stefano Pioli's Lazio (a 3-1 Rossoneri win in August 2014). Inzaghi has never come up against the Diavolo at San Siro as a coach. He has, however, faced AC Milan on two occasions while in charge of Bologna and Benevento (D1, L1).

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