AC Milan will take on Sassuolo at San Siro later today, more specifically at 12:30 CET, in a fixture that usually offers the spectators a lot of goals.
After the comeback win against Torino on Monday, which helped them keep hold of first place in the standings, Milan are looking for another important win today. Sassuolo may be a newly-promoted side, but given the Rossoneri failed against Cremonese and Pisa, they need to succeed today.
As mentioned, this is a fixture that tends to offer a lot of goals as Milan have scored 24 in 13 meetings at San Siro. The top brass of Serie A will be hoping for an entertaining affair, as such, to kick off what is an exciting Sunday in the league.
AC Milan vs. Sassuolo: The key stats
Our pre-match preview has all the latest team news and some more insight on the opponents, with the best stats ahead of the game below.
➤ There have been 13 previous meetings between the sides in the Rossoneri half of Milan: 7 wins for Milan (the most recent a 6–1 victory in the Coppa Italia 2024/25), 2 draws (the latest a 0–0 in Serie A 2019/20) and 4 wins for Sassuolo (the last a 2–5 success in Serie A 2022/23).
➤ Milan have scored in 12 of their 13 home matches against the Emilians: 24 Rossoneri goals in total, with their only blank the 0–0 draw on 15 December 2019 in Serie A.
➤ Milan mathematically clinched their most recent Scudetto away to Sassuolo: a 0–3 win on 22 May 2022 (the final matchday of the season), with goals from Giroud (brace) and Kessié.
➤ Milan are the team that score the most goals through substitutes in Serie A 2025/26: 4, level with Juventus and Cremonese.
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➤ Milan are the side who have had the most penalties awarded against them in Serie A 2025/26: 5, the same as Udinese.
➤ Milan are the team that make the fewest substitutions in Serie A 2025/26: 47 out of a possible 70.
➤ Sassuolo are one of the teams that concede the most goals in the first 15 minutes of matches in Serie A 2025/26: 4, level with Udinese, Fiorentina and Verona.
➤ After the goals by Volpato and Muharemovic in Sassuolo–Fiorentina, Sassuolo have now had 11 different goalscorers this season, a figure bettered only by Inter with 12.
➤ Sassuolo have 20 points after 14 matchdays: this is their best start since 2020/21, when they had 26 points at this stage and were fifth in the table.
➤ This is the first official meeting between Massimiliano Allegri and Fabio Grosso as head coaches.
➤ Massimiliano Allegri, now in his second spell in charge of Milan, was sacked by the Rossoneri in January 2014 following a 4–3 defeat away to Sassuolo. Milan had gone 0–2 up after 13 minutes thanks to goals from Balotelli and Robinho, but were then overturned by a four-goal haul from Domenico Berardi, with Montolivo’s late strike for Milan proving in vain.
➤ Massimiliano Allegri also faces his former club: he coached Sassuolo in the 2007/08 season in Serie C1, taking charge for 42 matches with a record of 22 wins, 7 draws and 13 defeats, earning a historic promotion to Serie B and winning the Serie C1 Supercup.
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➤ Christian Pulisic scored his fourth Serie A brace, and his second of the season, in Torino– Milan. The American has played 551 minutes in official matches so far this season and has scored 9 goals (including the Coppa Italia), averaging one every 61 minutes.
➤ Adrien Rabiot scored his first Serie A 2025/26 goal in Torino–Milan. His previous league strike dated back to 12 May 2024 in Juventus–Salernitana.
➤ In Sassuolo–Fiorentina, Tarik Muharemovic scored his first-ever Serie A goal.
➤ In last Saturday’s Sassuolo–Fiorentina, Cristian Volpato netted his first Serie A 2025/26 goal, the third league goal of his career.
