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 · Sassuolo · Serie A predictions

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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Giacomo BonaventuraAC Milan · 1-0
  • 10'Goal · Matteo PolitanoSassuolo · 1-1
  • 23'Yellow card · Claud AdjapongSassuolo
  • 51'Yellow card · Riccardo MontolivoAC Milan
  • 54'Goal · Francesco AcerbiSassuolo · 1-2
  • 56'Goal · Lorenzo PellegriniSassuolo · 1-3
  • 68'Yellow card · Luca AnteiSassuolo
  • 69'Penalty goal · Carlos BaccaAC Milan · 2-3
  • 73'Goal · Manuel LocatelliAC Milan · 3-3
  • 75'Yellow card · Lorenzo PellegriniSassuolo
  • 77'Goal · Gabriel PalettaAC Milan · 4-3
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Matteo PolitanoSassuolo
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Davide BiondiniSassuolo

Head-to-head

6 meetings: AC Milan 2, draws 0, Sassuolo 4.

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