AC Milan vs Salernitana

Warm Serie A title candidates AC Milan will be looking to build momentum when they take on basement boys Salernitana at the Stadio San Siro.

Following back-to-back Serie A losses to Fiorentina and Sassuolo, Milan got back to winning ways with an emphatic 3-0 win at Genoa last time out to close the gap on top-placed Napoli to a single point. Another success is well on the cards, at least according to Milan’s recent Serie A record against newly-promoted sides, with ‘I Rossoneri’ losing just one of their last 20 such fixtures (W14, D5). They’ve kept a whopping 12 clean sheets across those 20 match-ups, which is a stark contrast to their recent defensive wobble. Stefano Pioli’s men have registered just one shutout in their last four Serie A home outings (W2, D1, L1). A 3-1 defeat at the hands of Sassuolo in their most recent home league match puts manage Pioli in an awkward spot, as he faces the prospect of losing back-to-back Serie A games at San Siro for the first time.

Luckily for Milan, an out-of-sorts Salernitana are set to arrive in town, with the visitors rooted to the foot of the table after going winless in their last five Serie A matches (D1, L4). A lack of firepower up top has seen the newly-promoted Salernitana fail to get on the scoresheet in all four defeats in that five-game sequence. Topically, ‘I Granata’ have scored a league-low 11 goals in Serie A this season while netting an average of just 0.85 goals per away league match to date. A trip to San Siro is likely to stir some painful memories in the traveling camp, with Salernitana going all six Serie A matches in Lombardia without a single win (D1, L5). Moreover, they’ve lost three of their four overall Serie A meetings with Milan, beating them once back in 1948.