AC Milan vs AS Roma

Serie A 2018-19 – AC Milan vs AS Roma Match Preview

Biggest clash of the weekend in Serie A. AC Milan take on Roma at San Siro. Milan will be looking to bounce back after losing their first game of the season to Napoli 3-2 after shockingly blowing a 2 goal lead meanwhile for Roma this is their third game and after a tough away win at Torino, they came back from 1-3 down to draw Atalanta 3-3. Already having played Torino, Atalanta and now facing Milan, you’d have to say this is an incredibly tough start for Roma.

Recent trends

Out of the recent 5 meetings between these teams, an away team won 4 times

Roma have won three straight away games at San Siro against AC Milan. All by 2+ goals (1-3, 1-4, 0-2)

4 of the past 5 meetings at San Siro between these sides have ended with an over 2.5 goals. 3 of those games have hit an over 3.5 games.

Roma were the best defensive side away from home last season just conceding 9 away goals in 19. They also kept a clean sheet in their opening away game this season.

Roma were a better away side last season picking up 42 away points to just 35 home points. This season they have 3 away points to 1 home point.

Team News

Milan are expected to make three changes with Calhanoglu being back in for Borini, Mattia Caldara slotting in at CB alongside Ramagnoli while Ignazio Abate is expected to return to starting RB over Davide Calabria.

For Roma, Alessandro Florenzi will miss this huge game due to an injury and one of either Davide Santon or Rick Karsdorp are expected to slot in for him.

Betting tips for the match

Well, the recent trends say that Roma have been a very good away side and their defensive record is far superior playing away from home. They have also had great success against AC Milan in San Siro winning the previous 3 meetings there and winning them comfortably by 2+ goals each time. AC Milan are also coming off a heartbreaking loss at Napoli and will make more changes to the line-up than Roma which should take a bit of time to gel. Roma must be in better spirits, we also think that they’re the better team as a whole so we’re going to with a Roma win at 2.95 and also a separate pick for an over 2.5 goals at 1.77 although Roma have a great away defensive record, Milan are not very good defensively as witnessed in Game 1 plus Milan themselves can definitely score one at least plus the recent trends do say that Milan and Roma have high scoring games at San Siro. All odds based on TonyBet (odds subject to change). 1-2 Roma win is our prediction.

Match Odds (TonyBet)

AC Milan Win – 2.35

Draw – 3.45

Roma Win – 2.95

KICK OFF – 31st August 2018 – 7:30pm UK Time