MILAN – This Sunday’s meeting between Sassuolo-Milan is the third time that Eusebio Di Francesco and Pippo Inzaghi face each other as coaches. So far the scores are tied with one win a piece and both with the same 2-1 score-line. As players they faced each other 16 times with 8 wins for Inzaghi, 4 draws and 4 wins for Di Francesco.

The two men were also team-mates with the Italian national side on 11 occasions. Together Italy won 6 matches, drew 4 and fell to just 1 defeat. Inzaghi netted 6 goals from those matches and Di Francesco 1.

Di Francesco has faced Milan 5 times as a coach picking up 2 wins and 3 defeats. None of the previous 5 matches have ever ended goalless. Inzaghi meanwhile never faced Sassuolo as a player in an official match.

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