All the key stats ahead of Sassuolo vs. Milan

AC Milan are heading into at present’s conflict in opposition to Sassuolo with the intention of discovering the again of the web, having struggled massively within the last third recently.

With simply 4 video games left of the season, Milan are in place to safe Champions League qualification. They’d enhance the hole all the way down to fifth place to eight factors with a win tonight, which might get them very near their targets.

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Nonetheless, so as to take action, they positively must type out their assault because the stats are nothing wanting dire. Our preview has taken a better take a look at the match, whereas you can too discover perception into the opponents. Beneath, you could find the important thing stats.

Milan vs. Juventus: Key information and stats

➤ US Sassuolo Calcio have remained unbeaten in six of their final eight Serie A matches in opposition to AC Milan (W3 D3 L2), after struggling seven defeats within the earlier 9 (D2); intimately, the 2 groups have drawn their two most up-to-date encounters, scoring 10 targets in whole, a mean of 5 per match.

➤ Milan are unbeaten of their final eight Serie A away video games in opposition to Sassuolo (W6 D2); their final defeat on the MAPEl Stadium within the top-flight was on 6 March 2016, a 2-0 loss with targets from Alfred Duncan and Nicola Sansone.

➤ Sassuolo have collected 23 factors of their final 13 Serie A matches (W7 D2 L4); since MD22, solely 4 groups have earned extra factors within the competitors: Como (24), Juventus (25), Napoli (26) and Inter (30).

➤ Sassuolo have received 5 of their final seven Serie A house matches (L2), as many as they’d of their earlier 19 (D5 L9) below 4 completely different managers.

➤ After 2-1 residence wins in opposition to each Cagliari and Como, they might document three consecutive victories on the MAPEl Stadium for the primary time within the competitors since February-April 2022, below Alessio Dionisi.

➤ Milan have failed to attain in 5 of their final 9 Serie A matches – together with their final gameagainst Juventus – averaging 0.78 targets per sport on this interval. That is precisely half the common targets per sport they registered of their earlier 25 Serie A matches this season (1.64, and just one sport with out scoring in that run).

➤ Milan have stored a clear sheet in every of their final two Serie A matches (in opposition to Hellas Verona and Juventus) and will document three consecutive clear sheets for the second time this season, after final September. General, the final time the Rossoneri had greater than 15 clear sheets at this stage of a Serie A season was in 2011/12 (17 and a second-place end).

➤ Milan have made the fewest substitutions on common in Serie A this season (4.1 per match, 139in whole), at the very least 10 fewer than some other aspect within the competitors (Parma are subsequent with 149).

➤ Milan are averaging 13.3 photographs per sport in Serie A this season, their second-lowest common in a single top-flight marketing campaign throughout the final 20 seasons (solely 2014/15 was decrease, 11.8 photographs per match, after they completed tenth).

➤ Milan are the aspect in opposition to whom Domenico Berardi has scored probably the most targets in Serie A: 11 in 19 conferences, together with the one by which he set his private document for targets in a single top-flight match (4, in January 2014). Solely 5 gamers have scored extra targets in opposition to the Rossoneri within the competitors than the Sassuolo ahead: Stefano Nyers, Carlo Reguzzoni, Antonio Di Natale (all on 12), Enrico Chiesa (14) and Silvio Piola (22).

➤ Matteo Gabbia has been out there for AC Milan of their final two Serie A matches (1-0 in opposition to Veronaand 0-0 in opposition to Juventus); with the defender on the pitch, the Rossoneri have misplaced simply 4% of their Serie A video games this season (one among 26 whole – W15 D10), averaging 2.1 factors per match, whereas with out him, their loss share rises to 50% (4 of eight, W4) and their factors per sport common drops to 1.5.