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- Milan have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Serie A
- Sassuolo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
The hosts Milan saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Champions League. That game was an away game at Atlético Madrid, so at least Milan are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Milan form and stats
5-1-0 is the performance here at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza so far in the Serie A, giving Milan a total of 16 from their 6 games here. Outstanding results!
Milan enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Atlético Madrid's place. The match ended 1-0 with Junior Messias scoring. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of S. Pioli when Junior Messias scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 65th minute. Midfield player Franck Kessié got a match rating of 7.72 in that game, the max score being 10. Kessié served one assist, hit two key passes and had 57 successful passes (of 63 total).
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Fiorentina (3-4).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Milan as they are travelling to their away game against Genoa in the Serie A. That match is three days after this one.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (13 in 6 games), Milan's attacking play is working. 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 4 from 6 matches.
Sassuolo form and stats
2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Sassuolo playing as the away team in the Serie A this season.
Sassuolo's last game was the home draw against Cagliari (2-2). Attacker Domenico Berardi got a player rating of 8.61 in the game. "Man of the match" Berardi scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 38 successful passes (of 42 total).
A 2-3 defeat away at Udinese before that.After this away game Sassuolo return home for a Serie A game against Napoli. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Sassuolo has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 11 goals from 6 games. For Sassuolo, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the last ten meetings): Milan won seven games, two matches ended with a draw and Sassuolo got one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  D. Berardi 6 goals |   Z. Ibrahimović 5 goals |  R. Conceição Leão 4 goals |
Milan missing players
Sassuolo missing players
| Milan | Sassuolo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 29 | 13 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 11 | 19 |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 12 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 85% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 77% |
| 54% | 33% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 77% |
| 38% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 38% | 33% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 15% |
| 69% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 77% |
| 31% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 4.1 | 4.7 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
| 4.8 | 4.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.5 | 5.2 |
| 2 | 1.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15.2 | 16.3 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 13.7 | 14.8 |
| 4.9 | 3.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 5.2 | 5.2 |
| 45% | 57% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 35% | 28% |
| 12 | 9.8 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 16 | 15 |
| 4.1 | 2.8 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.7 | 4.2 |
- All of Sassuolo's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Milan have not yet lost a game at home.
- Milan have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Milan have scored in all their matches so far.
- Milan have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Serie A
- Milan haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sassuolo have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Sassuolo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sassuolo have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Sassuolo haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Napoli | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 19 | 32 |
| 2 | Milan | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 32 |
| 3 | Inter | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 17 | 28 |
| 4 | Atalanta | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 25 |
| 5 | Roma | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 22 |
| 6 | Lazio | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 21 |
| 7 | Fiorentina | 13 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 21 |
| 8 | Juventus | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 21 |
| 9 | Hellas Verona | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 19 |
| 10 | Bologna | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | -5 | 18 |
| 11 | Torino | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
| 12 | Empoli | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | -6 | 16 |
| 13 | Sassuolo | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | -1 | 15 |
| 14 | Venezia | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 15 |
| 15 | Udinese | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 14 |
| 16 | Sampdoria | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -8 | 12 |
| 17 | Spezia | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 31 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 23 | -16 | 11 |
| 18 | Genoa | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 15 | -9 | 9 |
| 19 | Cagliari | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -13 | 7 |
| 20 | Salernitana | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -18 | 7 |