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A great record on the final day: All the key stats ahead of Milan vs. Salernitana

Originally posted on SempreMilan | By Oliver Fisher | Last updated 5/25/24

AC Milan will sign off the 2023-24 Serie A season tonight when they host rock bottom Salernitana at San Siro in what promises to be a night of emotional farewells.

It had already been confirmed that Olivier Giroud and Simon Kjaer will leave when their contracts expire meaning they will get a great send-off, while Stefano Pioli’s farewell was also announced on Friday.

The latest team news and some insight on the opposition is available in our pre-match preview, while below are the best stats ahead of the game.

➤ Milan are unbeaten in eight (W5 D3) of their nine Serie A games against Salernitana, although they have drawn three of their four (W1) most recent league matches against this opponent.

➤ Salernitana are winless in each of their four Serie A away games (D1 L3) against AC Milan and in general San Siro is the Stadium in which the Campani have played the most meetings in the competition without ever winning (9: D1 L8).

➤ Among the teams against which AC Milan have always scored in Serie A, only against Pescara (14), Pro Vercelli (12) and Messina (10) have the Rossoneri played more games than against Salernitana (9).

➤ Milan have only won one of their last six league games (D3 L2), after winning each of their previous five; furthermore, following their defeat against Torino, the Rossoneri could lose back-to-back Serie A games for the first time since February 2023 (three in that case).

➤ Salernitana are the fourth non-newly promoted team in Serie A history to lose at least 25 matches in a single top-flight season (W2 D10 L25 in Serie A in 2023-24), after Triestina in 1946-47 (25), SPAL in 2019-20 (28) and Sampdoria in 2022-23 (25).

➤ Milan have won their final game of a Serie A season in each of the last six campaigns (also always ahead at half-time): already their longest such streak in the competition.

➤ Stefano Pioli is the manager with the fourth-most wins as AC Milan coach in Serie A: 108, behind Carlo Ancelotti (163), Nereo Rocco (120) and Fabio Capello (110); furthermore, he is the second AC Milan manager overall in terms of win percentage in the competition: 59%, only behind Lajos Czeizler (64%).

➤ Over the last five Serie A seasons (since 2019/20), Théo Hernández is the defender who has been directly involved in the most goals (48), who has completed the most dribbles (232) and who has made the most total carries (2571). Furthermore, he has won 99 games in the top-flight (level with Giovanni Di Lorenzo): in the period, only less than Alessandro Bastoni among defenders (100).

➤ Olivier Giroud has scored the most goals in Serie A for AC Milan after turning 34: 38 (ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s 34); considering all foreign players in top-flight history, only Cristiano Ronaldo (64) and Miroslav Klose (42) have netted more.

➤ Giulio Maggiore is one of the three Italian players who have been directly involved in at least five goals in Serie A from the start of March onwards, alongside with Gianluca Scamacca (eight) and Riccardo Calafiori (five): three goals and two assists in the period for the Salernitana midfielder.

This article first appeared on SempreMilan and was syndicated with permission.

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