(IN THE PHOTO: De Jong celebrates his equaliser)
MILAN – The rossoneri maintained their unbeaten run on Sunday night following a 1-1 draw against Sampdoria at the San Siro. The away side broke the deadlock on 58 minutes through Soriano, but Milan reacted strongly and found a deserved equaliser thanks to Nigel De Jong’s acrobatic effort on 75 minutes which took a deflection off Duncan. It was another good display from Inzaghi’s men and they could have even scored a winner, had it not been for the post that denied second-half substitute Suso’s curling shot on 83 minutes.Here are the stats to emerge from the match:4- the number of goals scored by Nigel De Jong with the Milan jersey this season. His goal against Sampdoria on Sunday took his tally in Serie A to 3, while he also scored versus Sassuolo in the last-16 of the TIM Cup in January.89- Mattia De Sciglio made his return from injury after 89 days against Sampdoria. His last appearance had come on the 13th of January 2015 in the last-16 TIM Cup win over Sassuolo.6- the number of matches that Milan have gone unbeaten at home in the second part of the season. This is made up of 3 wins and 3 draws.15- the number of shots Milan had towards Sampdoria’s goal in the first-half, including those that were blocked by the blucerchiati defence; a season’s best for the rossoneri.16- this is the number of points collected by Milan in the 11 matches from the second part of the season. After this stage in the first part of the season, Milan had collected just 1 point more: 17.