On Saturday, Milan will kick off the campaign to defend their Italian league title when they host Udinese at the San Siro Stadium in the first round of the competition.

Here are the highlights of the match:

Milan is the team that has drawn the most with Udinese (36), compared to Milan’s 41 and Udinese’s 17.

The last three matches between the two teams ended in a 1-1 draw.

In the last 10 matches between them, Milan lost once to Udinese, and this happened in the first round of the 2019-2020 season.

– In the last 15 matches between them at the San Siro, Milan lost once, compared to 6 draws and 8 wins against the Rossoneri, while Milan managed to score 31 goals.

– This is the sixth time that Milan and Udinese have met in the first round: Milan won once in 1950, Udinese in 2019, and drew three times.

Milan have not drawn in the first round since the 2011–2012 season against Lazio 2–2. After beating Bologna and Sampdoria in the first round of the 2020-2021 and 2021-22 seasons for perhaps the first time since 1987-1996, Milan have won three straight first-round games (they won 10 in a row at the time). ). in the first round).

– Udinese have won once in the last six matches of the first round, and this victory came at the expense of Milan in the 2019-2020 season.

– The team that won the Scudetto has not lost in the first round of the following season since 2016, when Juventus lost the title to Udinese.

Translated by Mohamed Bazzi.