AC Milan are on the verge of winning the Italian Football League title for the first time since 2011 when they host Sassuolo on Sunday at stage 38, while their neighbor and direct rival, Inter, last season’s champions, host ” Sampdoria”. time. .

Milan are two points ahead of Inter and outperform them in head-to-head competition this season (draw 1-1 in Stage 12 and Milan win 2-1 in Stage 24). titles behind Juventus, the leader (36 titles).

Milan had a string of remarkable victories in the final meters, especially away from home against Fiorentina, Lazio and Verona, before beating Atalanta 2-0 at home on the penultimate 37th stage to celebrate with by his fans as if he had won the title.

The match has the flavor of a rematch for AC Milan, who lost 3-1 at home to Sassuolo on 28 November in the fourteenth stage, but manager Stefano Pioli has a full squad and enters the match set for the crown, while Sassuolo fights him while he is in the middle of the standings, so they don’t compete for anything.

Pioli praised the victory over Atalanta and said: “I love my players and I know what they do on the pitch”, adding: “Today we won and now we need another win in the next match.”

Regardless of the identity of the crowned champion, whether it be AC ​​Milan or its neighbor Inter Milan, they will not be able to celebrate at the famous Duomo in Milan, where a concert will take place on Saturday night, and the huge theater built for the occasion cannot be removed. in 24 hours.

As for the only place where you can celebrate the title, it will probably be the San Siro stadium, which is used by two clubs and has a capacity of 70,000 spectators.

Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi still believes in his team’s ability to snatch the title from Milan, knowing that this season he led his team to two Italian Super Cup titles by beating Juventus and then the Coppa Italia by beating the same command.

“We have to win and we hope they lose,” said Inzaghi, who experienced the euphoria of last leg decisiveness when he was the Lazio player who beat Juventus in the last leg 22 years ago. “We have to win and we will hopefully they lose. This scenario has happened before and everything is allowed in football.”

Attention is focused on the identity of the team that will accompany Genoa and Venezia to the ranks of second-tier clubs, and the conflict is limited to Salernitana and Cagliari.

Salernitana are two points ahead of Cagliari, the former hosting Udinese and the latter hosting Venezia.

In the event that Salernitana draw and Cagliari win, the latter will remain among the elite clubs, as they are superior to the former on a large goal difference, in light of the absence in this case of relying on two direct matches this season, because two matches ended in a draw 1:1.

– Numbers and statistics –

1- Milan only need a draw to crown the title, as they are superior to their neighbor after the difference of two direct matches.

10. This is the number of weeks Milan were in the lead at the end of each stage.