AC Milan 2-1 SPAL: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 29 December 2018

Result

AC Milan 2-1 SPAL

Serie A · Saturday 29 December 2018, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

AC Milan · SPAL · Serie A predictions

AC Milan 2-1 SPAL: match report

AC Milan beat SPAL 2-1 in Serie A on Saturday 29 December 2018. The half-time score was 1-1.

Andrea Petagna opened the scoring in the 13th minute. AC Milan's goals came from Samu Castillejo (16') and Gonzalo Higuaín (64'). SPAL scored through Andrea Petagna (13').

Discipline: AC Milan received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; SPAL received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game AC Milan were 8th on 28 points from 18 and SPAL 16th on 17 points from 18. AC Milan went on to finish that season 5th with 68 points, and SPAL 13th with 42.

AC Milan lined up in a 4-3-3 and SPAL in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Gonzalo Higuaín of AC Milan (7.8), ahead of Franck Kessié (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 AC Milan wins, 0 draws and 0 for SPAL.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Andrea PetagnaSPAL · 0-1
  • 16'Goal · Samu CastillejoAC Milan · 1-1
  • 51'Yellow card · Jasmin KurticSPAL
  • 56'Yellow card · Samu CastillejoAC Milan
  • 64'Goal · Gonzalo HiguaínAC Milan · 2-1
  • 70'Yellow card · Pasquale SchiattarellaSPAL
  • 73'Yellow card · Cristián ZapataAC Milan
  • 79'Yellow card · SusoAC Milan
  • 89'Second yellow · SusoAC Milan

Head-to-head

2 meetings: AC Milan 2, draws 0, SPAL 0.

Team news

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

Gianluigi Donnarumma, Ignazio Abate, Cristián Zapata, Alessio Romagnoli, Ricardo Rodríguez, Franck Kessié, Tiemoué Bakayoko, Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Suso, Gonzalo Higuaín, Samu Castillejo

SPAL line-up (3-5-2)

Alfred Gomis, Thiago Cionek, Felipe, Kevin Bonifazi, Lorenzo Dickmann, Simone Missiroli, Pasquale Schiattarella, Jasmin Kurtic, Filippo Costa, Andrea Petagna, Mirco Antenucci