AC Milan vs Inter Milan Match Prediction: November 7, 2021

Match Predictions and Betting Odds

Last season, AC Milan squared off against Inter Milan three times, the games producing a total of nine goals. Coincidentally, each of these games featured 3 goals. In the first two fixtures, both teams exchanged 2-1 victories over each other with the last fixture between the two teams going the way of Inter Milan with a 3-0 victory. Given the current forms of the teams coming into this matchup, this encounter promises to be another high scoring affair in the Italian Serie A.

AC Milan vs Inter Milan: Team News, Probable XI

AC Milan go into this fixture without the services of Samu Castillejo who’s out with a hamstring injury, Alessandro Florenzi who has a knee injury, Junior Messias who is suffering from a thigh injury, Ante Rebic who’s suffering from an ankle injury and goalkeeper Mike Maignan who is suspended with a wrist injury. However, the good news for AC Milan is the availability of Brahim Diaz and Theo Hernandez who return after recovering from Covid-19 infection.

AC Milan (Probable XI): Tatarusanu, Calabria, Kjaer, Tomori, Hernandez, Tonali, Kessie, Saelemaekers, Diaz, Leao, Ibrahimovic

Inter Milan (Probable XI): Handanovic, Skriniar, de Vrij, Bastoni, Dumfries, Barella, Brozovic, Calhanoglu, Perisic, Dzeko, Martinez

Key Players

Oliver Giroud will be a critical player for AC Milan as he along with Zlatan Ibrahimovic forms a deadly striking pair. Appearing in a total of 5 matches in this year’s Italian Serie A season, Giroud has scored 4 goals from the 5 shots on target that he’s made. His accuracy will be critical if AC Milan are to overcome arch rivals Inter Milan.

Inter Milan’s captain Edin Dzeko will be looking to lead from the front as in the 8 matches that he has featured in this year’s Italian Serie A season, he’s managed to scored 7 goals and has 1 assist to his name. Dzeko will be looking to get on the scoresheet against AC Milan this weekend in the Italian Serie A.

Prediction

Neither of these teams will want to lose any ground to their rivals and chances are that this encounter will end in a draw.