AC Milan secured their place in the top four with a 1-0 win over Juventus at the Allianz Stadium last night, with a third season in a row in the Champions League now on the cards.
It was Olivier Giroud who got the only goal of the game with a sensational header not long before the break, as the Rossoneri got all three points when just one would have been enough. Below are the best stats from the game, as published by the official website:
➤ Milan have done the double over Juventus in Serie A for the third time in the last 50 years, following the 1990-91 and 2009-10 seasons.
➤ Milan have kept a clean sheet in at least three consecutive matches against Juventus in Serie A for the second time in their history, after the period between 1988 and 1989 (four on that occasion).
➤ Giroud has scored twelve goals in a single season in Europe’s ‘top five’ leagues for the first time since the 2016-17 campaign (also twelve with Arsenal).
➤ Giroud has scored five headers in Serie A in 2023; no player has done better over this period in Europe’s top-five leagues (five also for Victor Osimhen and Valentín Castellanos).
➤ Calabria has provided four assists in this league campaign, a record for him in a single Serie A season. And four of his last six assists in the league have ended with Giroud scoring.
