(IN THE PHOTO: Menez slots home the winner versus the rosanero)
MILAN – The rossoneri ran out 2-1 winners away to Palermo on Saturday afternoon to record their second straight league win after sweeping aside Cagliari in the previous round.Milan controlled the match in the first half and broke the deadlock on 37 minutes through Alessio Cerci. Mattia Destro had a goal wrongly ruled out at the start of the second half as Palermo then levelled the scores on 72 minutes with a Paulo Dybala penalty.On 83 minutes Milan restored their lead thanks to a splendid run and powerful finish from Jeremy Menez. It was the Frenchman’s 16th goal of the season. Here are the other stats to emerge from the match:1 – By breaking the deadlock against Palermo, Alessio Cerci scored his first goal with the rossoneri jersey. His last goal in the Italian top flight meanwhile came in Torino-Genoa, 2-1, on the 13th of April 2014. 15 – The number of points collected by Milan in the second part of the season. After this amount of matches in the first part of the season Milan had collected 16 points.3 – By winning at the Renzo Barbera, Milan take their away win tally to 3 for the season. The other 2 wins on the road came against Parma and Hellas Verona. Interestingly, all 3 of those wins came after an international break…7 – The number of times in 2015 that Milan have finished the first half 1-0 up. On 3 occasions Milan have been able to maintain their advantage and go on to wrap-up the win.15 – This is the amount of different Milan players that have found the back of the net this season in Serie A.31 – the number of players used by coach Inzaghi this season after Suso was handed his league debut against Palermo.