Day 22 in the Italian Serie A, we focus on the match that will face Milan and Hellas Verona in San Siro. We need Milan to draw or win and give less than 4 goals.
Milan occupies the 8th position with 31 points looking at European positions while Verona 9th with 29 points very close to the home team and with one less game.
Milan comes from a radical change in attitude and performance. Everything seems to have been caused by a simple player, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swedish striker has returned to the Italian club after a few years of career in the MLS and seems to have caused a total revolution in the team. This Milan has a fairly young squad and it seems that the figure of someone so imposing and experienced has been a great motivation for the rest of the players. He has played 6 games since signing Ibra with 5 wins and 1 draw, giving us in those 6 games 5 green.
A Milan that is not even the shadow of what it was but especially by attitude, because it has competent players to reach Europe like Rebic, Piatek, Kessie, Theo Hernandez, Calhanoglu or Ibra himself. It seems that the attitude has changed completely with the arrival of the Swedish getting very good results and getting hooked to the top positions of the classification. So I think that now at home and in this dynamic I think it is difficult to lose the game.
As for goals, we have 2 teams conducive to watching a somewhat closed game. Milan has a balance of 22 goals in favor and 26 against with an average of 2.29 goals per game, exceeding 3 goals in only 9 of the 21 games (43%). Playing in San Siro that average drops to 2.20 and 40% of matches where it has exceeded the line (4 of 10).
The rival will be another team that is surprising this year as is Hellas Verona. Team very well worked, especially defensively, so it will not be easy for Milan. 25 goals in favor and 22 against, with an average of 2.35 per game and surpassing the line only in 8 of 20 matches (40%). As a visitor we also improve both aspects, lowering the average number of goals per game to 2.33 and exceeding 3 goals only in 33% of their visits (3 of 9).
In the first leg we saw a pretty good match for our interests with a 0-1 for Milan and only 17 shots in total despite the fact that Verona saw an expulsion in the 21st minute.
Therefore, I hope that the improvement of Milan will continue to be in this important match by getting into the fight for European squares and let’s see a strong attitude, with such a difficult opponent to harm him I think it will be a somewhat closed game in which we see little goals.
