Unbeaten in six at the Maradona: All the key stats ahead of Napoli vs. Milan | OneFootball

AC Milan and Napoli will meet each other for the 177th time tonight, with the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona being the venue.

Milan have 70 wins to their name in this fixture while the Partenopei have 52, with the remaining 54 games ending in draws. The Rossoneri are on a six-game unbeaten at the Maradona, stretching back to 2018-19.

However, tonight’s opponents are an Antonio Conte side battling to win the league title, so it will be a very tough test. Our pre-match preview has the latest team news and some insight on Napoli, while below is the stat pack for the game.

Key facts and stats

➤ In the last 12 Serie A meetings between Napoli and AC Milan, both sides won four games (D4), after the Partenopei had been unbeaten in each of their previous eight matches against the Rossoneri in the competition, winning six in the period.

➤ AC Milan are unbeaten in each of their last six away matches (W3 D3) against Napoli in all competitions and have they never gone seven successive games on the road without defeat against the Azzurri in their history.

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➤ Napoli (61) have 14 points more than AC Milan (47) in the table: only in three of the 153 previous matches between the two sides in Serie A history have the Azzurri faced the Rossoneri with a higher advantage (+15 on February 8th, 2014; +25 on April 15th, 2018 and +23 on April 2nd, 2023).

➤ Only against Roma (nine) have Napoli lost more matches than against AC Milan (eight, as against Inter) after Italian national team games. Overall, Azzurri and Rossoneri have met 18 times after such games, with five wins for the Partenopei, five draws and eight wins for the Diavolo.

➤ Since the start of February, Napoli are winless in six of their seven Serie A matches (D5 L1): one more than in their first 22 games in the current top-flight season (D2 L3). Furthermore, with only eight points earned since the start of the 23rd matchday, the Azzurri would be 13th in the table in this period.

➤ AC Milan have picked up 47 points in 29 games in the current league season: since Serie A returned to 20 teams in 2004/05, only one team finished the season in the top four positions after having obtained a maximum of 47 points in the standings with nine games remaining, Sampdoria 2009/10 (fourth).

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➤ After comeback wins against Lecce (3-2) and Como (2-1), AC Milan could win three Serie A matches in a row for the first time since last September: against Venezia, Inter and Lecce, under Paulo Fonseca.

➤ AC Milan and Napoli are two of the four teams to have gained the most points from losing positions in Serie A this season: 15 for the Rossoneri (along with Atalanta) and 14 for the Azzurri – Bologna first with 16.

➤ Since his debut in Serie A in 2019/20, Romelu Lukaku has been directly involved in eight goals (6G+2A) in 818 minutes against AC Milan in all competitions (one goal or assist every 102′): only Lautaro Martínez (10) has had a hand in more goals against the Rossoneri in the period among players in the Big five European leagues, but with 621 more minutes than the Belgian (one every 144′).

➤ Since he joined the Rossoneri last season, Christian Pulisic (30G+17A) is one of only two Serie A players to have both scored at least 30 goals and provided at least 15 assists in all competitions, along with Ademola Lookman (35G+15A).