AC Milan 2-1 Roma: result and report

Serie A · Friday 31 August 2018

Result

AC Milan 2-1 Roma

Serie A · Friday 31 August 2018, 18:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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AC Milan 2-1 Roma: match report

AC Milan won against Roma 2-1 in Serie A on Friday 31 August 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.

F. Kessie opened the scoring in the 40th minute. AC Milan's goals came from F. Kessie (40') and Patrick Cutrone (90+5'). Roma scored through Federico Fazio (59').

Discipline: AC Milan received no yellow cards; Roma received 2 yellow cards.

AC Milan went on to finish that season 5th with 68 points, and Roma 6th with 66.

AC Milan lined up in a 4-3-3 and Roma in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Patrick Cutrone of AC Milan (8.4), ahead of Hakan Çalhanoğlu (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 AC Milan win, 4 draws and 5 for Roma.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Goal · F. KessieAC Milan · 1-0
  • 59'Goal · Federico FazioRoma · 1-1
  • 77'Yellow card · Bryan CristanteRoma
  • 88'Yellow card · Daniele De RossiRoma
  • 90+5'Goal · Patrick CutroneAC Milan · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: AC Milan 1, draws 4, Roma 5.

Team news

AC Milan line-up (4-3-3)

Gianluigi Donnarumma, Davide Calabria, Mateo Musacchio, Alessio Romagnoli, Ricardo Rodríguez, Franck Kessié, Lucas Biglia, Giacomo Bonaventura, Suso, Gonzalo Higuaín, Hakan Çalhanoğlu

Roma line-up (3-4-1-2)

Robin Olsen, Federico Fazio, Konstantinos Manolas, Iván Marcano, Rick Karsdorp, Daniele De Rossi, Steven Nzonzi, Aleksandar Kolarov, Javier Pastore, Patrik Schick, Edin Džeko