AC Milan 3-1 Roma: result and report

Serie A · Thursday 6 January 2022

Result

AC Milan 3-1 Roma

Serie A · Thursday 6 January 2022, 17:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

AC Milan 3-1 Roma: match report

AC Milan beat Roma 3-1 in Serie A on Thursday 6 January 2022. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Olivier Giroud opened the scoring in the 8th minute. AC Milan's goals came from Olivier Giroud (8', penalty), Junior Messias (17') and Rafael Leão (81'). Roma scored through Tammy Abraham (40').

Discipline: AC Milan received 2 yellow cards; Roma received 5 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Going into the game AC Milan were 2nd on 42 points from 19 and Roma 6th on 32 points from 19. AC Milan went on to finish that season 1st with 86 points, and Roma 6th with 63.

AC Milan lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Roma in a 3-1-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Rafael Leão of AC Milan (7.8), ahead of Mike Maignan (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 AC Milan wins, 2 draws and 3 for Roma.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

7'Yellow card · Tammy AbrahamRoma
8'Penalty goal · Olivier GiroudAC Milan · 1-0
17'Goal · Junior MessiasAC Milan · 2-0
18'Yellow card · Nicolò ZanioloRoma
40'Goal · Tammy AbrahamRoma · 2-1
44'Yellow card · Theo HernándezAC Milan
44'Yellow card · Rick KarsdorpRoma
44'Yellow card · Lorenzo PellegriniRoma
56'Yellow card · Rade KrunicAC Milan
74'Second yellow · Rick KarsdorpRoma
81'Goal · Rafael LeãoAC Milan · 3-1
84'Yellow card · Gianluca ManciniRoma
90+3'Second yellow · Gianluca ManciniRoma
90+4'Missed penalty · Zlatan IbrahimovićAC Milan

Head-to-head

10 meetings: AC Milan 5, draws 2, Roma 3.

Roma 1-2 AC MilanSerie A · 31 Oct 2021
Roma 1-2 AC MilanSerie A · 28 Feb 2021
AC Milan 3-3 RomaSerie A · 26 Oct 2020
AC Milan 2-0 RomaSerie A · 28 Jun 2020
Roma 2-1 AC MilanSerie A · 27 Oct 2019
Roma 1-1 AC MilanSerie A · 3 Feb 2019

Team news

Unavailable

Simon KjærAC Milan · injury (Cruciate Ligament Rupture)
Fikayo TomoriAC Milan · injury (COVID 19)
Ciprian TătărușanuAC Milan · injury (COVID 19)
Samu CastillejoAC Milan · injury (COVID 19)
Alessio RomagnoliAC Milan · injury (COVID 19)
Alessandro PlizzariAC Milan · injury (Knee Surgery)
Daniel FuzatoRoma · injury (COVID 19)
Borja MayoralRoma · injury (COVID 19)
Davide CalabriaAC Milan · injury (COVID 19)
Leonardo SpinazzolaRoma · injury (Achilles tendon rupture)
Pietro PellegriAC Milan · injury (Tear in the abductor muscle)

AC Milan line-up (4-2-3-1)

Mike Maignan, Alessandro Florenzi, Pierre Kalulu, Matteo Gabbia, Theo Hernández, Sandro Tonali, Rade Krunic, Junior Messias, Brahim Díaz, Alexis Saelemaekers, Olivier Giroud

Roma line-up (3-1-4-2)

Rui Patrício, Gianluca Mancini, Chris Smalling, Roger Ibañez, Jordan Veretout, Rick Karsdorp, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Matías Viña, Nicolò Zaniolo, Tammy Abraham