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AS ROMA RUN THROUGH FINAL TRAINING SESSION

MILAN- AS Roma have run through their last training session ahead of tomorrow’s Serie A match against Milan at the San Siro. After a cardiovascular warm-up, the giallorossi focused on possession drills. Rudi Garcia’s men were then put through their paces with some tactical exercises and a practice match. Doumbia, Keita and Ljajic resumed full training with the rest of the squad ahead of the trip. Maicon, Spolli and Strootman continued with their personalised recovery programmes. The Roma squad will make their way to Milan late this afternoon ahead of Saturday’s match at the San Siro.

Source: AS Roma official website.

MILAN GOAL-SCORERS AGAINST ROMA AT THE SAN SIRO

MILAN – 83 Milan players have scored at least 1 goal against Roma at the San Siro over the years. The first to do so was Luigi Omar Moroni, in the 1929/30 season, in a 3-1 victory for Milan. His was the first of 140 goals against Roma at the San Siro.

7 Gunnar Nordhal.
5 Giovanni Moretti, Gianni Rivera, Pierino Prati.
4 Nils Liedholm.
3 Aldo Boffi, Carlo Annovazzi, Giuseppe Rinaldi, Josè Altafini, Pietro Paolo Virdis, Marco Van Basten.
2 Mario Romani, Giuseppe Meazza, Angelo Bollano, Walter Del Medico, Luigi Rosellini, Riccardo Carapellese, Bruno Mora, Albertino Bigon, Silvano Villa, Franco Baresi, George Weah, Andriy Shevchenko, Massimo Ambrosini, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
1 Luigi Omar Moroni, Rocco Ranelli, Mariano Tansini, Giuseppe Marchi, Pietro Sante Arcari, Giulio Rossi, Giovanni Carlo Biraghi, Aredio Gimona, Paddy Sloan, Hector Puricelli, Arturo Silvestri, Albano Vicariotto, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Eduardo Ricagni, Gastone Bean, Cesare Maldini, Carlo Galli, Ernesto Grillo, Alfio Fontana, Giovanni Trapattoni, Mario David, Ambrogio Pelagalli, Jimmy Greaves, Dino Sani, Josè Joao Amarildo, Angel Benedicto Sormani, Giovanni Lodetti, Carlo Petrini, Nestor Combin, Aldo Maldera, Egidio Calloni, Giorgio Biasiolo, Roberto Antonelli, Vinicio Verza, Mark Hateley, Roberto Donadoni, Mauro Tassotti, Massimo Agostini, Daniele Massaro, Frankie Rijakaard, Alessandro Costacurta, Jean Pierre Papin, Stefano Nava, Gianluigi Lentini, Christian Panucci, Pietro Vierchowod, Leonardo, Christian Ziege, Oliver Bierhoff, Josè Mari, Filippo Inzaghi, Kakà, Marcio Amoroso, Cristian Brocchi, Ronaldinho, Pato, Cristian Zapata, Sulley Muntari.

MILAN-ROMA: THE TIMING OF THE GOALS

MILAN – The rossoneri have scored a total of 35 goals against Roma at the San Siro since the 1989/90 season. They were scored at the following times:

14 scored in the first-half: (5 between 1′-15′, 3 between 16′-30′, 6 between 31′-45′)

21 scored in the second-half: (6 between 46′-60′, 6 between 61′-75′, 9 between 76′-90′)

ON THIS DAY: 2 EUROPEAN SEMI-FINALS

MILAN – On this day 57 years ago, the 8th of May 1958, Milan lost 2-1 away to Manchester United in the first leg of the European Cup semi-finals. The English giants had recently suffered the tragedy of the Munich Air Disaster. In the return leg at the San Siro, Milan ran out 4-0 winners and booked their place in the final.

On this day in 1968 meanwhile, Milan played out a goalless draw against Bayern Munich away from home and qualified for the final of the Cup Winners’ Cup. Milan would go on to win the trophy against Hamburg in the final.