Inter vs Fiorentina: our guide to the match

Inter will be back on the pitch on Monday 10 February for the match at San Siro against Fiorentina, on matchday 24 of the 2024/25 Serie A season. The Nerazzurri, with 51 points in the standings, will take on the Viola, in fifth place with 42 points.

PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS

It will be the 174th match between Inter and Fiorentina in Serie A (72 wins for Inter, 46 for Fiorentina and 55 draws), four days after the rescheduled matchday 14 fixture. Inter and Fiorentina have faced each other 86 times in Milano, with 50 Inter wins, 16 Fiorentina wins and 20 draws.

THE OPPONENT: FIORENTINA

Fiorentina have obtained 42 points in their first 23 games in this Serie A season, slightly behind their performance of 46 points after 24 games in 2015/16, a season that ended in 5th place. After a streak of five consecutive clean sheets away from home, Fiorentina have conceded goals in each of their last four Serie A away games. The Tuscan team has scored at least two goals in each of their last three league games (seven in total, 2.3 on average per game) and has never scored at least two goals in more than three consecutive matches in the top flight with Raffaele Palladino at the helm.

GOALS: HOW MANY, HOW, AND WHEN

Inter (56) and Fiorentina (40, on part with Lazio) are two of the four teams that have scored the most goals in this Serie A (Atalanta with 49 in second). The Nerazzurri (14) and the Viola (12) are also in the top three in terms of their tallies in the first half hour of play in the current championship, once again with Atalanta in between (13), as well as scoring the most goals from set pieces.

NUMBERS AND MILESTONES

The next match will be Hakan Çalhanoglu's 250th appearance in the Serie A, and with a goal, he would also reach the milestone of 50 goals scored in the tournament. Matteo Darmian and Piotr Zielinski are close to reaching two personal goals: the Italian defender is close to recording 150 wins (currently 149) in Serie A, while the Polish player is one step away from serving 50 assists in Serie A (currently 49). Alessandro Bastoni is also coming up to his 200th appearance in Serie A, and his 169th in an Inter shirt.