AC Milan and Salernitana close out at San Siro
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AC Milan and Salernitana close out at San Siro

AC Milan host already relegated Salernitana, both aim to end the season on a high note

Last fixture of the season for AC Milan and Salernitana as they face each other at the Meazza. Stefano Pioli's team, with second place already secured, aim to bid farewell to their fans with a victory. The same goes for the Campanians who seek a prestigious win, their first of 2024, to say goodbye to Serie A TIM.

DID YOU KNOW?

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). AC 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.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

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).

PLAYERS

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.

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: Basic (Salernitana) Cautioned: Gyomber, Pirola, Sambia, Tchaouna, Zanoli (Salernitana)

REFEREE

Di Marco (Liberti-Valeriani) IV: Fabbri, VAR: Nasca, AVAR: Marini (Photo Getty Images)