MILAN – The Round 35 Serie A match between Milan-Roma at the San Siro on Saturday night ended 2-1 in favour of the rossoneri.

Van Ginkel broke the deadlock minutes before the half-time interval while Destro doubled Milan’s lead shortly after the restart.

Francesco Totti pulled a goal back for the away side, but the rossoneri held on for all 3 points. Here are the stats to emerge from the match:

1- by scoring the game’s opening goal, Van Ginkel found the back of the net for the first time with the Milan jersey.

200- Ignazio Abate reached the impressive milestone of 200 appearances with the rossoneri jersey by starting against Roma on Saturday night. His debut for Milan came on the 3rd of December 2003 in an Italian Cup match away at Sampdoria which Milan won by a single goal to nil. Abate has now played 155 matches in Serie A for Milan, 11 in the Italian Cup, 1 in the Italian Super-Cup and 32 in European competitions.

130- Giacomo Bonaventura made his 130th appearance in Serie A on Saturday night against the giallorossi. 89 of those came with the Atalanta jersey and 31 with Milan.

16- Van Ginkel became the 16th different Milan player to get his name on the score-sheet for the 2014/2015 Serie A season.

24th of March 2012- this is the date of the last time Milan ran out as winners at home to Roma. On that day, the match interestingly also ended 2-1 in favour of the rossoneri with Ibrahimovic scoring a brace of goals.