Another stumble on the road for AC Milan as they drew a tough draw against Sassuolo in the Serie A.
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In the fourth game week of the Serie A, Milan went to the Mapei Stadium to face Sassuolo and the game ended in goalless after Mike Maignan saved a penalty.
Another than the penalty kick, both teams created poor chances which none of them converted to a goal. This result means that Milan drops to 6th after getting points in 4 games.
Sassuolo 0 AC Milan 0 Post Match Data Analysis
Chance Creation
Sassuolo had a total of 14 shot-creating actions in the game with the Greek Winger , Georgios Kyriakpoulos producing 3 shot-creating actions. AC Milan had 15 shot-creating actions with Rafael Leo producing 4 out of 15 chances.
AC Milan managed to complete 2 passes within 20 yards of Sassuolo's goal while Sassuolo completed 8. AC Milan allowed 17.2 passes per defensive action which was a weakness of AC Milan while Sassuolo allowed 7.8 passes per defensive action.
Passes and Possession
AC Milan controlled the possession with 63% while Sassuolo had 37% ball possession. For pass accuracy, Milan had 79% pass accuracy and Sassuolo had 70% pass accuracy. AC Milan players that had the highest pass combinations were Thomas Pogeba and Saelemaekers with 20 passes.
Maxime Lopez was the main ball distributor for Sassuolo for the game while Ismael Bennacer and Florenzi were the main ball distributors for the ball.
Shot Analysis
AC Milan had a total xG of 0.91 versus Sassuolo who had an xG of 1.06. AC Milan missed a lot of chances with Rafael Leo shot getting blocked which had a total of 0.31 xG making it AC Milan's most dangerous shot on target. Sassuolo's most dangerous shot (another than the penalty kick) came from Davide Frattesi which had 0.09 xG which was off target.
xG timeline chart data from: understat.com
AC Milan had a total of 11 shots with 2 shots on target while Sassuolo had 8 shots and 3 of them were on target. The player who managed to get the highest xG in the team was Leao having a total of 0.3 xG in the game. Sassuolo's player with the highest xG was Domenico Berardi with 0.8 xG.
AC Milan had an average of 0.083 xG per shot while Sassuolo had 0.133 xG per shot. Overall, Milan had better chances but they simply could not convert them.
Conclusion
AC Milan had a poor game versus Sassuolo. A match were both goalkeepers were the man of the match for their teams. Milan need to improve a lot if they have any chance to beat Inter in the next match.
You check the last match against Bologna data review from this link.
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