10 FACTS ON AC MILAN v ROMA

AC Milan v Roma kicks off 2022 and the second half of the season for the Rossoneri. It is a highly esteemed and very important match, with the Rossoneri and the Giallorossi having always been at the top of the Serie A table in the first half of the season. Ahead of tomorrow's kick-off at San Siro, let's take a look at a few stats and facts about the match:

HEAD TO HEAD
1- Roma are the side who AC Milan have beaten the most in Serie A: 77 Rossoneri wins, 51 draws and 45 wins for the Giallorossi in 173 meetings. Pioli's side have won their last two league games against the Capitolini: AC Milan haven't won three in a row against Roma since 1996.

2- 86 matches have been played at the San Siro, with 47 AC Milan wins, 20 draws and 19 Roma victories. The last 18 meetings between the Rossoneri and Giallorossi at San Siro have been evenly matched, with seven wins and four draws.

3- AC Milan and Roma have already played a Serie A match on Epiphany: in 2004, at Stadio Olimpico, the Rossoneri won 2-1 thanks to a Shevchenko brace.

CURRENT FORM
4- 2021 was the second-best year for Milan in terms of the number of wins in Serie A: 27, a number inferior only to the 28 in 1950.

GENERAL STATS
5- So far this season, AC Milan have been the side to have scored the most goals from direct free-kicks (four) in the top five European leagues 2021/22. The last Italian team to do better in a single season was Juventus in Serie A 2017/18 with six.

PLAYER STATS
6- Zlatan Ibrahimović has scored 11 goals against Roma in Serie A, more than against any other team in the competition. The Giallorossi are the team against whom the AC Milan striker has had the most multiple-goal games in the top flight (four, including three for the Rossoneri). Six of the Swede's seven goals in this season's competition have come on the road, the last goal coming on 12 September against Lazio at San Siro.

7- 22 of Ante Rebić's 25 Serie A goals have come in the second half of the season. Of those, two have come against Roma (June 2020 and February 2021).

8- Theo Hernández is both the defender to have provided the most assists with this season (five) and also the one to have taken part in the most goals (seven, with two goals scored). The Frenchman could score in two matches in a row in Serie A for the second time in the championship, which he first did in December 2019.

9- Former Roma player Alessandro Florenzi is the player who has made the most league appearances (227) in a Roma shirt since making his Serie A debut on 22 May 2011. Alessio Romagnoli also has a history with the Giallorossi, making his first 13 Serie A appearances and scoring his first goal in Serie A between 2012 and 2014.

10- The first of Davide Calabria's seven Serie A goals came against Roma in February 2018.

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