AC will be looking to keep their top spot in Serie A when they travel to Turin to take on Torino at Olimpico di Torino in their league round 32 tie on Sunday night with kickoff at 21:45 EAT.
Torino claimed a hard-fought 1-0 victory over rock-bottom Salernitana in their previous Serie A outing, with Andrea Belotti’s first half penalty proving to be the difference. Their performance in the match was not convincing, but they will take the victory as it ended their eight-game winless run in Serie A while moving them five points within the top half.
They will now be looking to build on the victory as they hope to break into the top half before the season the ends. However, they have been in poor home run recently, failing to win any of their last four matches in front of their own fans. Also, they have lost each of their last four Serie A encounters with Milan by an aggregate scoreline of 11-0.
AC Milan suffered a setback in the race for the title as they were held to a frustrating 0-0 draw at home by Bologna last Monday night. The draw prevented them from opening up a four-point gap at the top of the league standings.
They now lead the table with just one point above the second-placed Napoli, who have been flying high recently, while there four points above the third-placed Inter who have a game in hand. They now cannot afford another slip-up this weekend as anything less than a victory could see them drop off the summit.
Milan have maintained a solid away record in Serie A, suffering just one defeat in their last 10 on the road matches while they have claimed seven wins the run. They are also unbeaten in their last nine league matches claiming five wins in the run. Therefore they head into the match in good form and should be confident of coming away with all three points here.
Torino vs Milan head to head
Both sides have met in 40 encounters since 1993 with Milan claiming 21 victories while Torino have only claimed three victories and there have been 16 draws.
- Milan 1-0 Torino 26/10/21
- Torino 0-7 Milan 12/05/21
- Milan 5-4 Torino 12/01/21
- Milan 2-0 Torino 09/01/21
- Milan 1-0 Torino 17/02/20
Home
- Salernitana 0-1 Torino
- Genoa 1-0 Torino
- Torino 1-1 Inter
- Bologna 0-0 Torino
- Torino 1-2 Cagliari
Away
- Milan 0-0 Bologna
- Cagliari 0-1 Milan
- Milan 1-0 Empoli
- Napoli 0-1 Milan
- Milan 0-0 Inter
Torino team news
Torino will be without Mohamed Fares, Dennis Praet, Koffi Djidji, Antonio Sanabria and Simone Zaza due to injuries.
Milan team news
Milan will be without Simon Kjaer, Alesio Ramagnoli and Alessandro Florenzi due to injuries.
Prediction and odds
- Milan win
- Both sides to score
- Goals under 2.5
