10 FACTS ON CAGLIARI V AC MILAN

What awaits AC Milan is a tricky away fixture against a team that will scrap for every point in their relegation battle. The Rossoneri travel to Sardinia for their next match in the league and will need to fully focus so as to not slip up. Winning is vital in order to stay top of the league and keep up this run of fantastic form. On the eve of the game, let's take a look at 10 facts on Cagliari v AC Milan.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
1- Since 2000, AC Milan have won 26 games against Cagliari in the league and haven't recorded more victories against any other team in the top flight in that period (level with Chievo).
2- AC Milan have kept a clean sheet in five of their last six league games against Cagliari; the only goal scored by the Sardinian side in that period was through Alessandro Deiola in the reverse fixture.

RECORD AWAY AT CAGLIARI
3- AC Milan are the team Cagliari have won the fewest percentage of home matches against in Serie A (13%: 5/39) among the teams they've faced at least seven times at home in the competition. The Sardinian outfit have conceded in each of their last eleven home fixtures against the Rossoneri in Serie A.

CURRENT FORM
4- The Rossoneri won their last two Serie A matches 1-0 (against Napoli and Empoli). They haven't recorded three consecutive wins without conceding a single goal since May 2021 - against Benevento, Juventus and Torino.
6- AC Milan have scored in each of their 14 away matches in the league this season. The Rossoneri have only once scored in 15 consecutive away games in a single season in the top flight: 1967/68 (15 from a possible 15 in a 16-team league season, which saw the Rossoneri crowned champions).

GENERAL STATS
7- No team in Europe's Top-5 leagues has won more games by a margin of just one goal than AC Milan (10), including their four most recent wins in Serie A.
8- AC Milan and Manchester City are the two teams with the highest average of points per away game in Europe's Top-5 leagues in 2021/22: 2.4. The Rossoneri have won ten, drawn three and lost one in their 14 Serie A matches on the road so far this season.

PLAYER FOCUS
9- Zlatan Ibrahimović has scored in each of his last seven Serie A games against Cagliari (eight goals in total). Ibra has a total of 155 Serie A goals and is just one away from joining Riva, Mancini and Inzaghi in 21st in the all-time goalscoring standings, and two away from Toni in 20th. Since his return to AC Milan, the Swede has scored in both of his games at the Unipol Domus (three goals), including a brace on 18 January 2021.   

COACHES
10- As a coach, Stefano Pioli is unbeaten in nine of his eleven Serie A games against Walter Mazzarri (W5, D4). Pioli has also beaten Cagliari more times in Serie A than any other team: 11. Five draws and four defeats complete the record from his 20 matches against the Sardinian side.

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