10 FACTS ON AC MILAN V SAMPDORIA

The numbers behind AC Milan v Sampdoria focus on the history between these teams, but also generally with a link to the Rossoneri's season. With less than a day until kick-off, let's dive into the statistics ahead of matchday 25 of Serie A at San Siro.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

1- It is the 128th meeting between these two in Serie A, with the Rossoneri winning 66 times, Sampdoria with 30 wins and 31 of these finishing all square.

2- Five of the last six goals scored in Serie A matches between AC Milan and Sampdoria have been done so by midfielders (Kessie, Castillejo, Ekdal, Hauge and Díaz); Quagliarella's goal being the only exception, in the second meeting of last season.

EARLY KICK-OFFS

3- The Rossoneri have won four of their last five lunchtime (12:30 CET) kick-offs in Serie A (D1), always finding the net at least twice in each victory: they have been as successful in these games as they were in their previous nineteen lunchtime games.

THE FORMBOOK

4- AC Milan have thus far accumulated 52 points in the league. In the era of 'three points for a win', the Rossoneri have achieved at least as many points as this on just three occasions after 24 league games played: the two Scudetto-winning seasons of 1995/96 and 2003/04, as well as 2020/21 (second).

GENERAL STATS 

5- The Rossoneri are the team to have had the most attempts on goal this season, after regaining possession with a high press: 48 shots in this particular phase of play, exactly double that of Sampdoria (24).

6- AC Milan will play their fourth consecutive match at San Siro for just the fourth time since the introduction of 'three points for a win' (1994/95 season). The previous occasions in which this has happened were in 1997 (Fabio Capello), in 2012 (Massimiliano Allegri, the fourth game against Sampdoria) and also in 2018(Gennaro Gattuso)

7- No other team in one of the Top-5 European leagues has scored more goals directly from free-kicks than the Rossoneri this season: four, level with Fiorentina; only one of these came at home however: the first came last August against Cagliari, scored by Tonali.

PLAYER FOCUS

8- Of all the forwards, only Berardi and Immobile (both with five) have had more goal contributions than Rafael Leão in the second half of this season so far: four (two goals, two assists) in his last five Serie A appearances. His next appearance will also be the Portuguese's 100th game in all competitions for the Rossoneri.

9- In the seven Serie A matches in which Brahim Díaz has found the back of the net, the Diavolo has always been victorious: one of these in fact came against Sampdoria, in the first game between these two of the current season. 

COACH FOCUS

10- Stefano Pioli's AC Milan are unbeaten against Sampdoria in Serie A (W3, D2). This is already a record in the 'three points for a win' era for a Rossoneri coach after his first five Serie A games in the dugout against the Blucerchiati.

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