THE FANTASTIC FOUR


MILAN – The rossoneri welcome Atalanta to the San Siro on Saturday night in a rich vein of form and after consecutive wins against Sassuolo (2-1), Chievo (1-0) and Lazio (3-1). Should Milan see off Atalanta and win again, they would make it four in a row: a feat not achieved since March-April 2014. On that occasion, Milan went on to string together a five match winning run.Sinisa Mihajlovic’s men have collected 19 points from the opening 11 rounds of the season. It is the rossoneri’s best total at this stage of the season since 2011/12 when Max Allegri’s Scudetto holders found themselves in third place and on 21 points after the first 11 rounds.Area for improvement: Milan are the team that concedes the most goals after the restart, shipping 6 goals between 46-60 minutes so far this season in Serie A.In contrast, the Orobici tend to concede in the final quarter of an hour of play. So far this season, Atalanta have conceded 5 goals in the period between 76-90 minutes: a league record they share with Roma and Bologna.What’s more, Atalanta are leading the way for red cards. Along with Genoa, they are the team to have received the most players dismissed this season: 4.Finally, the month of November hasn’t brought Edy Reja much luck over the years and is statistically the worst month for his teams. In fact, his teams average 1.22 points per match for the eleventh month of the year. Reja’s overall record for November reads: 27 wins, 23 draws and 29 defeats from 79 league matches.SOURCE: Football Data.