Ac milan vs Olympiakos

Milan would try to prove critics wrong again as they come into this match on a 4-1 away win to Sassuolo. They have had a pretty tasking start to the season, Gennaro Gattuso looks prepared to deliver champions league football now with his job pretty much in the clear. With their latest win over the weekend, they seem in high spirits coming into this game. The host have a date with Olympiakos who seem like one of the likely teams to be in the last 32 in the Europa league.
The big question however would be,
CAN MILAN KEEP IT UP?

Ac Milan

The Italians see this competition as a window to the main stage, the Uefa champion’s league. Still threading carefully though they aren’t looking like exiting the Europa league anytime soon. Match day one saw them beat F91 Dudelange by a single goal and that was enough to kick start better things to come. Leys see if they can take all three points when the Greeks come visiting.

Generally, the home side has been impressive since making a return to the competition last year. They won 5 of their seven home matches, keeping four clean sheets in the process. They started with a win to nil after pumping in cash to strengthen their defense line, the fans would be expecting a solid display from the defense.

OLYMPIAKOS

The Greeks were solely responsible for making Burnley exit the competition. During the qualifiers, they kicked off with a draw against Spanish side, Real Betis. So far, the group hasn’t been raining goals and that isn’t likely to change. The visitors might come to Italy with a defensive setup, statistics show that their last three matches have seen exactly 3 goals. It would be very difficult to hold this Milan side for the whole of 90’mins given their prowess in attack recently.

The visitors aren’t renowned for their attacking strength, and would be coming from a loss over the weekend to PAOK in their domestic league. History seems to be in favor of Milan, as the home side have won four of their last five matches against Greek opposition.

Key stats

• This would be the third meeting between these two sides within the confines of the European competition
• Milan have lost just one of their seven Europa league group stage matches, winning four and drawing two. They are however unbeaten at home in the last 3 games winning 2 and drawing 1.
• Olympiakos last won three matches in the Europa cup between February and March 2012. Since that point on they have only been able to manage 3 wins out of 18 games, drawing 6 and losing 9.
• Gonzalo Higuain has directly been involved in nine goals in his last 12 Europa league appearances, scoring seven and assisting two. He got the winner in their first game against F91 Dudelange.

Pick

Home win or draw and over 1.5 goals