AC Milan and Feyenoord will meet for simply the third time in a aggressive recreation tonight, and it comes within the Champions League play-off spherical.
Certainly, it will likely be the primary time in over 55 years that the 2 sides have confronted off in opposition to one another and the Dutch facet have the bragging rights given they prevailed 2-1 on mixture within the 1969-70 version of the European Cup.
Extra usually talking, Milan have performed 27 occasions in opposition to groups from the Netherlands, with simply 12 wins in that point, plus seven attracts and eight losses. Our has perception on Feyenoord and the most recent group information, whereas under are the perfect stats.
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➤ This will probably be simply the third assembly between Feyenoord and Milan in European competitors, with the pair successful one match every throughout their two-legged European Cup Spherical of Final 16 conflict in the course of the 1969-70 season – the Dutch group progressed to the following spherical (0-1 defeat away within the 1st leg and 2-0 win at residence within the 2nd leg).
➤ Milan have did not win any of their final 4 video games in main European competitors in opposition to sides from the Netherlands (D3 L1), since a 3-1 win over SC Heerenveen within the UEFA Cup in October 2008.
➤ Feyenoord have misplaced simply one in every of their 11 residence video games in main European competitors in opposition to sides from Italy (W6 D4), a 1-2 defeat in opposition to Roma in February 2015 within the UEFA Europa League Final 32.
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➤ Milan have did not win any of their final 11 away video games within the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds (D4 L7), scoring simply three targets in complete throughout their final 10 matches in that run.
➤ Feyenoord are taking part in within the knockout rounds of the UEFA Champions League/European Cup for the primary time because the 1984-85 season, dropping 1-2 on mixture to Panathinaikos within the first spherical (0-0 at residence, 1-2 away).
➤ In the course of the UEFA Champions League league section this season, solely matches that includes Barcelona (41) witnessed extra targets in complete than these involving Feyenoord (39). Of the 24 groups to progress from that stage of the competitors, the Dutch facet conceded probably the most targets (21).
➤ Milan’s Santiago Giménez is the participant with the perfect minutes per objective ratio within the UEFA Champions League this season (min. 4 targets), averaging one each 59 minutes (5 targets in 5 appearances).
➤ Milan’s Christian Pulisic scored 4 targets in the course of the UEFA Champions League league section this season, with Olivier Giroud the final participant to have extra for the membership (5 in 2022/23) in a single marketing campaign within the competitors. Within the course of, he additionally grew to become the primary USMNT participant to attain that many targets in a UCL marketing campaign.
➤ Solely Atalanta’s Charles De Ketelaere (5) recorded extra assists in the course of the UEFA Champions League league section this season than Feyenoord’s Igor Paixão (4). In complete, the Brazilian has 5 objective contributions within the competitors this season with solely Santiago Giménez (6 this season) ever having extra throughout a UCL marketing campaign for Feyenoord.
➤ Milan’s Rafael Leão has accomplished 30 dribbles within the UEFA Champions League this season, probably the most of any participant in the course of the league section. Certainly, since making his debut within the competitors in September 2021, solely Vinícius Júnior (134) has accomplished extra on this interval than Leão (97).