Inter and AC Milan will battle it out for bragging rights in the first derby of the 2023-24 season this evening, with both sides looking to maintain perfect starts.
Both Milanese sides have won each of their opening three games in Serie A so far in 2023-24, putting them ahead of the rest as the top two teams in the league as the only ones with perfect records, but that has to end for someone.
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➤ Inter have won the last four meetings with Milan without conceding a goal, across all competitions. The Nerazzurri have never achieved five consecutive wins in the Milan derby (four
times in 2020, 1974, and 1934). The four consecutive clean sheets already set a record for Inter in this fixture.
➤ Milan have won three of the last six Serie A derbies against Inter (D1 L2), as many wins as in the previous 19 league encounters against the Nerazzurri (D6, L10). However, Milan lost the most recent derby in the tournament (0-1 on February 5th).
➤ Milan are the team against which Inter have drawn the most games in Serie A (56), while Inter are the team that have beaten Milan the most in the top flight (68 wins). Inter are also the team that have scored the most goals against Milan in the competition (251).
➤ Inter have scored in the last 11 home matches against Milan, across all competitions. The Nerazzurri have never scored in 12 consecutive home derbies (11 times also between April 1993 and January 2000).
➤ Inter and Milan haven’t faced each other with equal points in Serie A since May 11, 2001 (a 6-0 win for Milan). Only once in Serie A history have they met with the same points and at the top of the table: on February 4, 1962 (a 2-0 win for Inter), and Fiorentina were also at the top in that case.
➤ Inter have won the first three matches of this season without conceding a goal. The Nerazzurri could achieve four victories in the first four Serie A matches for the eighth time and first time since 2019-20, and they could do it with four clean sheets for the first time in their history in the competition.
➤ Milan have won each of their first three games for the third time in the last four Serie A seasons, matching the number of times it happened in the previous 29 seasons. Milan could achieve four victories in the first four matches in the competition for the sixth time and the third time in the era of three points for a win (1995-96 and 2020-21 so far).
➤ Inter and Milan are the two teams that have scored the most goals in the first three rounds of this Serie A season (eight). In the last 10 seasons, Inter have scored at least eight goals five times at this stage of the tournament, while Milan have achieved this for the first time since 2014-15 this season.
➤ Lautaro Martínez has scored eight goals against Milan in all competitions. Only Giuseppe Meazza (12) and Stefano Nyers (11) have scored more goals in Inter’s history in the Milan derby.
➤ The Argentine forward has scored five goals in three matches this season, and among Inter players, only Antonio Angelillo in 1958 (11), Benito Lorenzi in 1950 (six), and Bruno Quaresima in 1947 (seven) have done better after four matches of the season for their team.
➤ Before Olivier Giroud, the last player to have scored at least four goals in the first three games of a single season for Milan in Serie A was Andriy Shevchenko in 2001-02. The Frenchman could
become the first Milan player to score in all the first four matches played by the team since Oliver
