AC Milan 4-3 Sassuolo: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 2 October 2016
Result
AC Milan 4-3 Sassuolo
Serie A · Sunday 2 October 2016, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
AC Milan 4-3 Sassuolo: match report
AC Milan defeated Sassuolo 4-3 in Serie A on Sunday 2 October 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Giacomo Bonaventura opened the scoring in the 9th minute. AC Milan's goals came from Giacomo Bonaventura (9'), Carlos Bacca (69', penalty), Manuel Locatelli (73') and Gabriel Paletta (77'). Sassuolo scored through Matteo Politano (10'), Francesco Acerbi (54') and Lorenzo Pellegrini (56').
Discipline: AC Milan received 1 yellow card; Sassuolo received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game AC Milan were 9th on 10 points from 6 and Sassuolo 5th on 12 points from 6. AC Milan went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Sassuolo 10th with 49.
AC Milan lined up in a 4-3-3 and Sassuolo in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Lorenzo Pellegrini of Sassuolo (8.0), ahead of Gabriel Paletta (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 AC Milan wins, 0 draws and 4 for Sassuolo.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Giacomo Bonaventura
- 10'Goal · Matteo Politano
- 23'Yellow card · Claud Adjapong
- 51'Yellow card · Riccardo Montolivo
- 54'Goal · Francesco Acerbi
- 56'Goal · Lorenzo Pellegrini
- 68'Yellow card · Luca Antei
- 69'Penalty goal · Carlos Bacca
- 73'Goal · Manuel Locatelli
- 75'Yellow card · Lorenzo Pellegrini
- 77'Goal · Gabriel Paletta
- 90+1'Yellow card · Matteo Politano
- 90+3'Yellow card · Davide Biondini
Head-to-head
Team news
AC Milan line-up (4-3-3)
Gianluigi Donnarumma, Mattia De Sciglio, Gustavo Gómez, Ignazio Abate, Gabriel Paletta, Giacomo Bonaventura, Riccardo Montolivo, Juraj Kucka, Luiz Adriano, Suso, Carlos Bacca
Sassuolo line-up (4-3-3)
Andrea Consigli, Luca Antei, Francesco Acerbi, Pol Lirola, Timo Letschert, Francesco Magnanelli, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Luca Mazzitelli, Grégoire Defrel, Matteo Politano, Claud Adjapong