• AC Milan’s defeat against Parma on February 22nd was just their second defeat in Serie A this season.

• Both teams have already met twice this season, once in the league and once in the Coppa Italia, both sides have picked up a 1-0 win apiece. 

• Lazio’s 2-1 win against Sassuolo last week was just their third league win in 13 matches.

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📈 Lazio v AC Milan Form & Stats

Maurizio Sarri’s tactics involve a high-tempo, 4-3-3 system, focusing on quick passes, extreme possession, and meticulous off-the-ball movement. Players constantly swap positions to create overloads, particularly utilising 3 v 2 situations in wide areas. 

Unlike traditional possession, Sarri emphasises quick, vertical passing to break lines rather than just keeping the ball for the sake of it. 

Lazio are currently without Danilo Cataldi, Samuel Gigot, Ivan Provedel, and Nicolo Rovella. Toma Basic and Alessio Romagnoli remain injury question marks ahead of the game in Rome. 

Massimiliano Allegri’s tactics centre on a 3-5-2 formation, which can sometimes be interchangeable with a 5-3-2 formation. Defensive stability, high-intensity pressing, and rapid transitions are key to their approach. 

Luka Modric is employed as the central pivot, utilising the speed and directness of Rafael Leao to spearhead counter-attacking situations. AC Milan aim to stay narrow and compact out of possession, often reverting to a 5-4-1 without the ball, forcing opponents into wide areas and limiting space in the central areas of the pitch. 

The visitors are currently without Matteo Gabbia and Ruben Loftus-Cheek through injury, while Santiago Gimenez may have a chance of making the squad. Adrien Rabiot misses out because of yellow card accumulation.

📔 Lazio v AC Milan Formation & Team News

A poor run of form has seen Lazio win just three of their last 13 Serie A matches, this has resulted in their European hopes effectively fading; they’ve now 13 points off the European spots, and overturning that deficit looks an extremely big ask. 

Lazio did manage to pick up a 2-1 win at home to Sassuolo last week; this was their first win in five league games. Lazio’s home form has also been a source of frustration; they’ve now picked up just two wins in their last nine home games, drawing four of them and losing the other three. 

There’s a small tinge of optimism after AC Milan won their crunch match against Inter last week, it’s given them a glimmer of hope at overturning the current deficit at the top of Serie A, AC Milan are now seven points behind Inter, not irretrievable, but it looks a monumental ask. 

AC Milan have been defeated just twice in Serie A this season, with one of those defeats coming a couple of weeks ago against Parma. Drawing too many games has ultimately ended up being Milan’s Achilles heel; it’s the main reason they find themselves behind Inter.

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