On matchday 11 in the league, the Rossoneri are in action at the Stadio Olimpico where they have already won in 2021 - last season. It's a tricky fixture and one certainly to be approached with the utmost concentration. Roma v AC Milan is the late game of this round of Serie A matches and, ahead of kick-off, let's get ready with a few stats and facts.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
1- AC Milan have beaten Roma more times than any other side in Serie A: in 172 meetings between the two sides, there have been 76 wins for the Rossoneri to the Giallorosse's 45 (51 draws).
2- 1-1 - the result of 23 matches - is the most common final score between Roma and AC Milan; the most recent was in February 2019.
RECORD AWAY AT ROMA
3- AC Milan and Roma have met 86 times in Serie A at the home of the Giallorossi: 26 home wins, 31 draws and 29 away wins.
CURRENT
4- Both AC Milan and Napoli have won nine of their first ten matches this season; on only four occasions has a team won ten of their first eleven games in a Serie A campaign in history: Juventus in 2005/06, Roma in 2013/14, Napoli in 2017/18 and Juventus in 2018/19.
5- AC Milan could become just the third side in Serie A history to win 15 away matches in a single calendar year after Napoli in 2017 (18) and Juventus in 2018 (15).
GENERAL STATS
6- AC Milan have scored eleven goals in the first half of games in the league this season, no team has more.
7- Eleven different players have got on the scoresheet for the Rossoneri this season, only Inter have more (12).
8- This season, no team has scored more goals from outside the box than AC Milan (four).
PLAYER FOCUS
9- Zlatan Ibrahimović could score his 400th goal in top-flight football over his entire career; the first was on 30 October 1999, when 15% of the current players with at least one appearance in Serie A this season were not yet born (74 out of 489).
10- Furthermore, Ibrahimović's next goal will be his 150th in Serie A. Only six foreign players have reached this milestone thus far: Gunnar Nordahl, Kurt Roland Hamrin, Gabriel Batistuta, Luis Vinicio, Stefano Nyers and Hernán Crespo.
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