AC Milan vs Bologna: Serie A Preview, Form and Key Stats

AC Milan host Bologna in the Serie A on Wednesday 28 October, 20:30 (Mecca time). The hosts are 4th in the table and the visitors 13th. This preview uses the season's Serie A results to compare how both sides score, defend and perform at home and away.

Where the two sides stand

AC Milan are 4th on 18 points (goal difference +9) and Bologna are 13th on 8 (-2); AC Milan are 10 points ahead of Bologna. AC Milan trail the leaders Lazio by 7, while Bologna trail the leaders Lazio by 17.

AC Milan at home

AC Milan have 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats at home (9 points from 3 games, 3.0 per game), scoring 2.67 and conceding 0.67 per game. They kept 2 clean sheets and failed to score in 0 of those 3.

Current streaks for AC Milan: 2 straight wins, a goal in each of their last 8.

Bologna away from home

Bologna have 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats away from home (6 points from 4 games, 1.5 per game), scoring 1.0 and conceding 0.75 per game. They kept 1 clean sheet and failed to score in 2 of those 4.

Recent form

AC Milan's last 5 results in the Serie A, newest first: 2-0 at Udinese (W); 3-2 vs Atalanta (W); 1-1 at Sassuolo (D); 3-0 vs Lecce (W); 2-2 at Lazio (D). That is 11 points from a possible 15.

Bologna's last 5 results in the Serie A, newest first: 2-0 at Cagliari (W); 1-3 vs Inter Milan (L); 2-1 at Lecce (W); 1-1 vs Torino (D); 0-1 at Napoli (L). That is 7 points from a possible 15.

Key players

AC Milan's standout numbers: A. Rabiot (4 goals, number 7 in the scoring chart); Diego Moreira (3 goals, number 16 in the scoring chart); A. Rabiot (3 assists, number 3 in the assist chart).

Bologna's standout numbers: Juan Miranda (3 assists, number 8 in the assist chart).

Head-to-head

In their last 10 meetings AC Milan won 5, Bologna won 2 and 3 were drawn, averaging 2.2 goals per game. The most recent was Bologna 0-3 AC Milan in the Serie A (2026).

Goals outlook

Blending AC Milan's home scoring rate (2.67) with Bologna's away conceding rate (0.75) gives about 1.7 goals for AC Milan; the reverse calculation gives 0.8 for Bologna, a combined 2.5. Both teams scored in 1 of AC Milan's 3 home games and 1 of Bologna's 4 away games, and over 2.5 goals appeared in 2 and 1 of them. These are season-average calculations, not a forecast.

Our read

On the numbers, recent form favours AC Milan (11 points from the last five against 7). AC Milan collect 3.0 points per home game while Bologna take 1.5 per away game, which tilts the balance toward AC Milan.