Match report
Sassuolo and AC Milan share the points after 1-1 draw
Sassuolo and AC Milan drew 1-1 at Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore in a Serie A Matchday 6 fixture, with both goals arriving inside a five-minute spell in the second half. The sides went into the interval goalless, and the match stayed tight until the hour mark.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
Milan broke the deadlock in the 63rd minute when Adrien Rabiot finished a move created by Luka Modrić, moving the visitors in front at 1-0. The lead lasted only five minutes. Sassuolo drew level in the 68th minute through Cas Odenthal, whose goal made it 1-1 and restored parity for the closing stages.
Neither side found a winner. Each had 11 shots, though Milan, with 59 per cent of possession, put six of theirs on target to Sassuolo's four and won five corners to three. The point lifted Milan from fifth to fourth in the table on 12 points, while Sassuolo stayed tenth on 8 points.
Adrien Rabiot scored the opening goal in the 63rd minute and earned the highest rating among the performers listed, 7.67. Goalkeeper Arijanet Murić was Sassuolo's best-rated player with 7.57.
Milan had 59 per cent of the possession, yet the match finished level at 1-1.
Sassuolo and AC Milan drew 1–1 (half-time 0–0).
Sassuolo met AC Milan in the Serie A (Regular Season - 6). Kick-off was Sunday, 11 October 2026, 16:00 UTC at Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore. Referee: Francesco Fourneau.
Key moments
- 63' Goal: Adrien Rabiot (assist: Luka Modrić) — 0–1 · Watch Adrien Rabiot's goal video (63')
- 68' Goal: Cas Odenthal — 1–1 · Watch Cas Odenthal's goal video (68')
Starting line-ups
Sassuolo (4-3-3)
AC Milan (4-4-1-1)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Sassuolo 29%, the draw 29%, AC Milan 42%. It finished Sassuolo 1–1 AC Milan.
AC Milan's rating edge, but the draw is in play — AC Milan are the stronger side on our strength rating, and the early-season home fade plus a weak Serie A home advantage on top give AC Milan the lean. The draw at 29% is about what a gap this size usually leaves.
Why AC Milan at 42%?
AC Milan sit 122 points higher on our strength rating — 1645 to 1767. Sides with a 80–160-point rating edge on the road won 39.9% of 13,822 such games. Both sides are inside their first six league games — home wins land softer this early in the season, so this trims Sassuolo's column. Across 11,278 opening-stretch games since 2010, home sides won 42.8% where the rating map expected 44.7%, with draws up 1.4 — negative in every season since 2018. Serie A home sides under-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to the other outcomes. Serie A homes won 43.3% of 6,134 games vs 44.6% across all 101,096 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly. The 300 most similar past games finished 26–26–48.
Why only 42%?
No scored evidence points the other way. 42% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 29% and Sassuolo at 29%.
Why is the draw second, level with the Sassuolo win?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 27.7%. These teams' recent games average 3.0 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 24.8% of 25,145. Early-season fixtures add 1.4 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Sassuolo are 7 games into a new manager (Alberto Aquilani), appointed 54 days ago. The famous new-manager bounce doesn't survive its receipt: sides with a new manager beat their rating by 0.9 points over 33,420 games — but sides on an equally bad run who kept their manager beat it by 2.4 over 31,777. Out: Jay Idzes and Ismaël Koné, important players. This does not change our forecast yet: we are still measuring how much missing players like these cost a team. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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About this match
On this page: the Sassuolo vs AC Milan final score and result, goal highlights and video clips of every goal, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Serie A fixture.
- Who scored and when — a goal-by-goal timeline of the match.
- Match stats — possession, shots, expected goals (xG), corners and cards.
- Starting lineups and player ratings for both teams.
- Head-to-head record and recent form for both sides.
Watch the goals: goal highlights and video clips of every goal from Sassuolo 1–1 AC Milan. Explore more on the Sassuolo and AC Milan team pages or the Serie A page.