Milan vs Fiorentina preview

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 01.May
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (80018 seats)

The home side, Milan, should be front runners in this fixture, but Fiorentina have exhibited both smartness and intrepidity. Learn more about the match!

Insights:
  • Milan is in the best form (4-2-0) in Serie A
  • Fiorentina haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Serie A.

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Milan form and stats

34 points is a decent return from 17 Serie A games here at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza for Milan. The data says 10 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses. Milan haven’t lost a league-game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Spezia, 103 days ago.

Milan are returning here after visiting Lazio and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Tonali and Giroud scored the goal(s). A late climax in the match against Lazio as the winning goal came two minutes into overtime; scored by Tonali. Midfield player Leão got a match rating of 8.21 in that game, the max score being 10. Leão served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 8 of 9 times.

Milan are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 25 goals in 17 games. Milan are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 12 from 17 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Fiorentina form and stats

As the visiting team in Serie A matches, Fiorentina have produced an overall stat of 6-3-8 so far.

Fiorentina failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Udinese (placed 12th) that ended with defeat 0-4. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Udinese was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind. Attacker Sottil got a player rating of 7.85 in the game. "Man of the match" Sottil hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 5 of 5 times.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Salernitana wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Fiorentina when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing four times, drawing zero and winning zero games.

Fiorentina are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 20 away goals from 17 games (in the league). Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Fiorentina have conceded 26 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these two sides meet on the pitch this season, as the fixture list show this recent match: Fiorentina - Milan 4-3. Milan-Fiorentina H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Milan five wins, Fiorentina three wins, two draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

MilanR. Conceição Leão
R. Conceição Leão
9 goals
MilanO. Giroud
O. Giroud
9 goals
MilanZ. Ibrahimović
Z. Ibrahimović
8 goals

Milan missing players

Fiorentina missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Milan Fiorentina
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
34 17 5 Played P 5 17 34
22 10 2 Won W 1 6 17
8 4 2 Drew D 1 3 5
4 3 1 Lost L 3 8 12
60 25 6 Scored S 5 20 54
30 12 6 Conceded C 8 26 46
91% 88% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 65% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 76% 76%
47% 29% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 59% 65%
26% 24% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 24% 32%
18% 12% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 12% 12%
53% 41% 60% BTTS BTTS 60% 71% 56%
44% 53% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 6% 26%
12% 18% 20% Failed to Score F T 40% 24% 18%
 
5.1 5.4 5.6 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5.1 5.2
4.2 3.7 4.2 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.2 3.4
2.1 1.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.5 2.2
3 1 1 Red cards R C 2 5 8
 
16.2 17.1 17 Shots (avg) S ( 11 11.8 13.9
5.3 4.8 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.6 3.7 5
34% 31% 32% Goal Efficiency G E 28% 32% 32%
 
10.8 9.3 11.4 Shots against (avg) S A 11.6 11.2 9.9
3.6 3.1 4.4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 4.1 3.7
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Fiorentina haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Milan have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Milan have the most clean sheets (15) in Serie A
  • Milan is in the best form (4-2-0) in Serie A

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Milan 34 22 8 4 60 30 17 10 4 3 25 12 17 12 4 1 35 18 30 74
2 Inter 34 21 9 4 72 28 17 12 3 2 41 14 17 9 6 2 31 14 44 72
3 Napoli 34 20 7 7 61 30 17 9 3 5 28 15 17 11 4 2 33 15 31 67
4 Juventus 34 19 9 6 52 30 17 9 4 4 21 11 17 10 5 2 31 19 22 66
5 Roma 34 17 7 10 55 40 17 10 4 3 25 15 17 7 3 7 30 25 15 58
6 Lazio 34 16 8 10 66 50 17 9 5 3 37 22 17 7 3 7 29 28 16 56
7 Fiorentina 34 17 5 12 54 46 17 11 2 4 34 20 17 6 3 8 20 26 8 56
8 Atalanta 34 15 10 9 61 43 17 4 7 6 30 27 17 11 3 3 31 16 18 55
9 Hellas Verona 34 13 10 11 59 51 17 9 3 5 33 21 17 4 7 6 26 30 8 49
10 Sassuolo 34 12 10 12 59 55 17 6 5 6 26 26 17 6 5 6 33 29 4 46
11 Torino 34 11 11 12 42 36 17 8 5 4 29 17 17 3 6 8 13 19 6 44
12 Udinese 34 10 13 11 53 52 17 6 7 4 28 24 17 4 6 7 25 28 1 43
13 Bologna 34 11 9 14 39 48 18 8 4 6 24 21 16 3 5 8 15 27 -9 42
14 Empoli 34 9 10 15 45 62 17 4 4 9 26 40 17 5 6 6 19 22 -17 37
15 Spezia 34 9 6 19 34 59 16 5 3 8 17 20 18 4 3 11 17 39 -25 33
16 Sampdoria 34 8 6 20 41 57 17 4 3 10 24 31 17 4 3 10 17 26 -16 30
17 Cagliari 34 6 10 18 31 62 17 3 6 8 18 28 17 3 4 10 13 34 -31 28
18 Genoa 34 3 16 15 25 54 17 2 8 7 12 23 17 1 8 8 13 31 -29 25
19 Salernitana 33 6 7 20 28 70 16 2 5 9 14 33 17 4 2 11 14 37 -42 25
20 Venezia 33 5 7 21 27 61 17 2 4 11 17 35 16 3 3 10 10 26 -34 22

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Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Milan 34 22 8 4 60 30 17 10 4 3 25 12 17 12 4 1 35 18 30 74
2 Inter 34 21 9 4 72 28 17 12 3 2 41 14 17 9 6 2 31 14 44 72
3 Napoli 34 20 7 7 61 30 17 9 3 5 28 15 17 11 4 2 33 15 31 67
4 Juventus 34 19 9 6 52 30 17 9 4 4 21 11 17 10 5 2 31 19 22 66
5 Roma 34 17 7 10 55 40 17 10 4 3 25 15 17 7 3 7 30 25 15 58
6 Lazio 34 16 8 10 66 50 17 9 5 3 37 22 17 7 3 7 29 28 16 56
7 Fiorentina 34 17 5 12 54 46 17 11 2 4 34 20 17 6 3 8 20 26 8 56
8 Atalanta 34 15 10 9 61 43 17 4 7 6 30 27 17 11 3 3 31 16 18 55
9 Hellas Verona 34 13 10 11 59 51 17 9 3 5 33 21 17 4 7 6 26 30 8 49
10 Sassuolo 34 12 10 12 59 55 17 6 5 6 26 26 17 6 5 6 33 29 4 46
11 Torino 34 11 11 12 42 36 17 8 5 4 29 17 17 3 6 8 13 19 6 44
12 Udinese 34 10 13 11 53 52 17 6 7 4 28 24 17 4 6 7 25 28 1 43
13 Bologna 34 11 9 14 39 48 18 8 4 6 24 21 16 3 5 8 15 27 -9 42
14 Empoli 34 9 10 15 45 62 17 4 4 9 26 40 17 5 6 6 19 22 -17 37
15 Spezia 34 9 6 19 34 59 16 5 3 8 17 20 18 4 3 11 17 39 -25 33
16 Sampdoria 34 8 6 20 41 57 17 4 3 10 24 31 17 4 3 10 17 26 -16 30
17 Cagliari 34 6 10 18 31 62 17 3 6 8 18 28 17 3 4 10 13 34 -31 28
18 Genoa 34 3 16 15 25 54 17 2 8 7 12 23 17 1 8 8 13 31 -29 25
19 Salernitana 33 6 7 20 28 70 16 2 5 9 14 33 17 4 2 11 14 37 -42 25
20 Venezia 33 5 7 21 27 61 17 2 4 11 17 35 16 3 3 10 10 26 -34 22

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Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.