{"id":264328,"date":"2025-09-29T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264328\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:18:13","slug":"all-the-key-stats-from-ac-milan-vs-napoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264328\/","title":{"rendered":"All the key stats from AC Milan vs. Napoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AC Milan secured a huge win on Sunday night at San Siro, beating the defending champions Napoli by two goals to one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Milan started strong with Alexis Saelemaekers scoring in the third minute, then Christian Pulisic turned from provider to scorer with a goal in the 31st minute. Pervis Estupi\u00f1\u00e1n\u2019s red card and Kevin De Bruyne\u2019s penalty made it a nervy finish, but the Rossoneri hung on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smash and grab?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking at the general stats, Napoli will be wondering how they didn\u2019t get something from the game. They had almost two-thirds of the ball (63%) and had 2.85 Expected Goals compared to Milan\u2019s 0.74.<\/p>\n<p>The Partenopei also had more big chances (2 to 1), total shots (19 to 6), shots on target (7 to 3) and corners (7 to 1). Despite this, they were unable to salvage anything.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G19tFvoWEAAnBSt\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Positive streaks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Milan had not won five consecutive matches across all competitions since March-April 2024 (seven at that time).<\/p>\n<p>Since his Serie A debut (2023-24), Christian Pulisic with the most goal involvements over the last three seasons of the top-flight: 46 (27 goals, 19 assists), surpassing L. Mart\u00ednez (45).<\/p>\n<p>Pulisic has scored in three consecutive matches for Milan in all competitions for the first time since September 2024 (four consecutive games at that time). He has scored and assisted in two consecutive matches for the first time in his career in the top five European leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Saelemaekers\u2019 goal at 2:23 is the fastest goal scored by Milan in Serie A since Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s against Venezia on 14 September 2024 at 01:29; against Napoli, it is the fastest goal scored by the Rossoneri since Inzaghi\u2019s on 28 October 2009 at 2:00.<\/p>\n<p>Among players who have scored 100% of their goals from open play since the start of last season, only Reijnders has scored more (10\/10) than Alexis Saelemaekers (8\/8, like Le\u00e3o).<\/p>\n<p>Last April, in the match against Fiorentina, was the last time that Mike Maignan made at least six saves in a Serie A match (seven in that case).<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Le\u00e3o played a Serie A match 133 days after his last one, on 18 May against Roma.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Luka Modric in Serie A so far this season:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 1st \u2013 Completed passes (300)<br \/>\ud83e\udd47 1st \u2013 Completed passes in opposition half (169)<br \/>\ud83e\udd47 1st \u2013 Line-breaking Passes (46)<br \/>\ud83e\udd47 1st \u2013 Possession won (31)<br \/>\ud83e\udd47 1st \u2013 Interceptions (10)<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G19wo5UWkAA6kQi\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan secured a huge win on Sunday night at San Siro, beating the defending champions Napoli by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-264328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115288729629411323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}