AC Milan vs Torino prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2024-08-16 18:45.
[p]Following a second-place Serie A finish and a run to the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, AC Milan began their life under new head coach Paulo Fonseca with an unbeaten tour of the USA in which they dazzled with a trilogy of wins against fellow European giants. Now they turn their attention to securing an opening round Serie A win for what would be a fifth consecutive season when they host Torino. Â [/p]
[p]A packed San Siro will be expecting nothing short of a 29th consecutive unbeaten Serie A home H2H against Torino (W20, D8), especially as they fizzled out and let their archrivals Inter run away with the Scudetto last term. That will quickly be forgotten if Milan can replicate their start to 2023/24, in which they won seven of their first eight league matches, including a 4-1 demolition of Torino in the second matchweek.[/p]
[p]About one week after AC Milan announced their new manager, Torino unveiled Paolo Vanoli as their head coach following his excellent 2023/24 in which he guided Venezia back into Serie A. After three seasons of mid-table stagnation and narrowly missing Europe, Vanoli’s “joyless” predecessor Ivan Jurić appeared to suggest Torino had reached their ceiling. [/p]
[p]Last August’s trip to AC Milan was just the beginning of some woeful performances away to some of Italy’s best clubs and it’s a key area for improvement leading into 2024/25. Torino lost each and every Serie A trip away to the eight clubs that finished above them in the standings by an aggregate score of 19-3, forming part of an abysmal record of W1, D1, L8 as an away underdog across the league campaign.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Hailed as “very intelligent” by Fonseca earlier this month, Christian Pulisic is primed to improve even further upon his tally of 12 Serie A goals last season after spending some pre-season time in the number ten role. Late last season, Torino enacted revenge at home against AC Milan (W 3-1) when Duván Zapata completed his own 12-goal haul. Zapata has scored in four of his last six personal starts against the Milan giants. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: AC Milan’s 38 matches last Serie A season produced a league-high average of 3.29 total goals per game.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Aaron Murphy[/i][/p]