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Full time · Serie A · Fri 28 Aug 2026, 19:45 UTC

AC Milan 20 Venezia

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What the chances were worth

AC Milan
2.13
expected goals (xG)
Venezia
0.69
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 2–0; by chance quality the match ran 2.13–0.69.

The brain read

AC Milan created the better chances — the xG read 2.1–0.7 and the shot count agreed (16–8, 5–2 on target). AC Milan got into the box far more often (11 shots inside it to 6). On the balance of chances, the 2–0 reads fair.

A second opinion written by rule from the numbers on this page — where the shot picture and the xG disagree, it says so rather than picking a winner. Backward-looking only; it claims nothing about any future result.

The match in numbers

AC Milan
Venezia
58%
Ball Possession
42%
16
Total Shots
8
5
Shots on Goal
2
9
Shots off Goal
3
2
Blocked Shots
3
11
Shots inside box
6
5
Shots outside box
2
2.13
Expected goals (xG)
0.69
2
Corner Kicks
2
1
Offsides
4
506
Total passes
367
445
Passes accurate
304
88%
Passes %
83%
8
Fouls
11
1
Yellow Cards
3
2
Goalkeeper Saves
4
-0.57
Goals prevented
-0.57

As returned by the data feed at full time. Bars show each side’s share of the stat.

Confirmed line-ups

Captured from the official team sheets in the last hour before kick-off. The pick test requires these to be in before any call counts.

AC Milan 3-4-2-1

  1. 5 Koni De Winter (D)
  2. 8 Ruben Loftus-Cheek (F)
  3. 9 Gonçalo Ramos (F)
  4. 14 Luka Modrić (M)
  5. 16 Mike Maignan (G)
  6. 21 Samuel Chukwueze (M)
  7. 31 Strahinja Pavlović (D)
  8. 33 Davide Bartesaghi (M)
  9. 34 Mario Gila (D)
  10. 70 Alphadjo Cissè (F)
  11. 80 Yunus Musah (M)

Bench: Lorenzo Torriani, Pietro Terracciano, Sankhoun Diawara, Filippo Terracciano, Matteo Gabbia, Pervis Estupiñán, Ardon Jashari, Christian Comotto, Diego Moreira, Alexis Saelemaekers, Adrien Rabiot, Francesco Camarda, Christian Pulišić

Venezia 3-5-2

  1. 1 Filip Stanković (G)
  2. 3 Joel Schingtienne (D)
  3. 4 Bartol Franjić (D)
  4. 5 Ridgeciano Haps (M)
  5. 6 Gianluca Busio (M)
  6. 10 John Yeboah (F)
  7. 17 Armel Bella-Kotchap (D)
  8. 18 Antoine Hainaut (M)
  9. 26 Toma Bašić (M)
  10. 45 Akor Adams (F)
  11. 71 Kike Pérez (M)

Bench: Matteo Grandi, Lorenzo Montipò, Thierry Correia, Ale Gomes, Redouane Halhal, Matteo Dagasso, Lamine Fanne, Marko Farji, Richie Sagrado, Simone Panada, Simon Sohm, Þórir Jóhann Helgason, Alvin Obinna Okoro, Albion Rrahmani, Lion Lauberbach

The market’s read

AC Milan
65%
market implied · price 1.46 · opened 70%
Draw
21%
market implied · price 4.51 · opened 20%
Venezia
14%
market implied · price 6.89 · opened 11%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance AC Milan or draw1.1085.6%-2.9 pts
Double chance Venezia or draw2.7034.9%+4.5 pts
Double chance either team1.1979.4%-1.6 pts
Draw no bet — AC Milan1.1581.3%-4.1 pts
Draw no bet — Venezia4.9918.7%+4.1 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.2177.9%+3.7 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.7155.8%+4.4 pts
Over 3.5 goals2.7434.4%+3.8 pts
Both teams to score1.8550.5%+7.9 pts
AC Milan over 1.5 team goals1.5261.3%+0.1 pts
Venezia over 1.5 team goals4.2222.2%+6.8 pts
AC Milan clean sheet2.0246.1%-5.8 pts
Venezia clean sheet6.6214.1%-0.5 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 2-0 6.88 · 1-0 6.93 · 2-1 7.64 · 1-1 8.11 · 3-0 9.74

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-08-28 21:10 UTC. These are the closing prices — the market’s last word before kick-off. The Move column is how each market’s implied chance has shifted since the first price we captured: green = the chance has risen (the price shortened, backing coming in), red = the chance has fallen (the price eased out — what punters call the price ‘drifting’).

Prices are observations, not offers. Each price is the average across the bookmakers the collector sees, and the implied chance is that price with the bookmaker’s margin stripped out. The market’s read is published so the model’s read can be judged against it — nothing here is advice, and nothing here is staked.