AC MILAN v HELLAS VERONA: FUN FACTS

AC Milan have already qualified for the Champions League, but winning is always important. After a great evening in Turin, the Rossoneri want to put more smiles on their fans’ faces and finish with a tally of 70 points. Here are the fun facts you need to know ahead of the season finale against Hellas Verona.

PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS
AC Milan have won each of their last four matches against Hellas Verona. Going further back, the Rossoneri are undefeated in eight Serie A games against the Gialloblù. Out of the teams currently in Serie A, only against Bologna (15) and Lecce (ten) are the Diavolo currently on longer unbeaten runs. The upcoming clash will be the seventh Serie A meeting between AC Milan and Hellas Verona in the month of May. The Scaligeri have won just one of the previous encounters: a 5-3 victory on 20 May 1973 (D1, L4). The Rossoneri, meanwhile, haven’t tasted defeat in 13 Serie A matches against Venetian sides in the Italian top flight (W11, D2); their last defeat came against Hellas on 17 December 2017 (3-0 at the Bentegodi).

HOME RECORD
AC Milan have lost just two home games this season (2-1 v Napoli on 18 September 2022 and 5-2 v Sassuolo on 29 January 2023). The last time the Rossoneri finished the season with so few defeats at San Siro was under Allegri in 2011/12. The Diavolo have picked up 40 points on home turf; if they win against Verona, they’d be the team with the biggest points difference (16) between their home (43 points) and away (27) tallies. Juventus and Inter currently have a bigger discrepancy between their home and away records (15 points), while Empoli aren’t too far behind, either (13).

SIMILARITIES
Hellas Verona (2037) and AC Milan (2018) are the two teams who have won the most duels during the current Serie A campaign. However, the Rossoneri have won 53.1% of those they’ve been involved in - the highest percentage in the division - compared to Verona’s figure of 49.5%.

DIFFERENCES
AC Milan have scored the most goals during the opening 30 minutes of play during the 2022/23 Serie A season (21). Meanwhile, no other team have conceded more stoppage-time goals at the end of the second half than Hellas Verona (eight). In percentage terms, the upcoming clash pits the team with the highest proportion of goals from open play (AC Milan, 82%, 50/61) against the side that have shipped the most (Verona, 88%, 49/56).

INDIVIDUALS
Tonali bagged his only Serie A brace against Hellas Verona, with this coming at the Bentegodi on 8 May 2022. In general, the Gialloblù are the team he’s been involved in the most goals against in the Italian top flight (four, three goals and an assist). Verona are the side Leão has played the most minutes against in Serie A without finding the net (479). However, the Portuguese man has provided three assists against the Scaligeri; only against Roma (four) has he done better.

ASSISTS
Tonali has registered seven assists during the 2022/23 Serie A campaign and has matched his best-ever season in this regard (seven with Brescia in 2019/20, too). Giroud (49) is close to making it 50 assists across the Top 5 European leagues. The Frenchman has set up a teammate to score on five occasions this term and hasn’t done better than this since 2015/16 (six with Arsenal in the Premier League).

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