10 FACTS ON AC MILAN V CAGLIARI

The Rossoneri’s final home match of the season awaits: at 20:45 CEST this evening, AC Milan will face a Cagliari side that has gone six games without defeat. Ahead of the matchday 37 clash at San Siro, here are some facts and figures that you need to know:

PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS

1- AC Milan have won each of their past four Serie A matches against Cagliari, scoring ten and conceding zero in the process. The Sardinians’ last goal against the Rossoneri was scored by João Pedro in September 2018.

2- AC Milan haven’t shipped any goals in their last four fixtures against Cagliari in the Italian top flight: the last team that failed to score against the Rossoneri for more consecutive matches in Serie A was Chievo (seven games between 2011 and 2016).

3- The most frequent scoreline between AC Milan and Cagliari in Serie A has been 1-0 to the Rossoneri. The 13th and last time this occurred was in January 2017 at San Siro.

PREVIOUS MATCHES IN MILAN

4- AC Milan have won each of their past 15 Serie A matches against Cagliari at San Siro. This is the longest winning run the Rossoneri have been on against a single opposition side on home soil in Serie A. 

5- AC Milan have found the net in all of their last 17 home matches against Cagliari in the Italian top flight. The last Rossoblù goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet away to the Rossoneri in Serie A was Giorgio Sterchele in June 1997.

STATE OF PLAY

6- AC Milan have won their last three Serie A fixtures after losing two in a row prior to this. This season, the Rossoneri haven’t recorded four consecutive victories since the first four matchdays.

7- AC Milan have found the net 72 times in Serie A this season: since the start of the three-points-per-win era, only once have they scored as many goals across the first 36 matchdays in the league (80 in 2005/06).

GENERAL STATS

8- AC Milan have hit the woodwork 22 times since the start of the 2020/21 Serie A season. Only Paris Saint-Germain (23) have seen more efforts come off the goal frame in the Top 5 European leagues this campaign.

PLAYER FOCUS 

9- Gianluigi Donnarumma’s next appearance will be his 250th for AC Milan in all competitions. 

10- Hakan Çalhanoğlu has created more chances than anyone else in the Italian top flight this season (95). Since Opta started collecting such data in 2004/05, Suso (98 in 2018/19) is the only AC Milan player to have done better in a single Serie A campaign in this regard.

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