Top Five: Famous home wins over AC Milan

From dismissing Milan-the-world-champions to dismantling them on the way to league and cup glory, here’s some inspiration from years gone by ahead of Sunday’s meeting in the capital…

Roma 2-0 Milan

30 November 1941
Serie A

The Giallorossi began the 1941-42 season in inauspicious fashion as they crashed out of the first round of the cup to second division Novara and, despite winning their first three in the league, defeat to Genoa followed a draw with Fiorentina before Milan arrived in town on Matchday 6.

But Alfred Schaeffer’s side made light work of their visitors thanks to first half goals from Luigi Di Pasquale and Aldo Donati that moved Roma into top spot.

From there on out they would barely move and Roma didn’t spend a single week out of the top-three as the heroics of Amedeo Amadei & Co. led them to a first Scudetto in the club’s history.

Roma 1-0 Milan

2 April 1991
Coppa Italia

Roma struggled in Serie A during the 1990-01 campaign; ultimately ending the season in ninth-place, while Milan finished second behind champions Sampdoria.

Their cup form was entirely different, however, as Ottavio Bianchi took the Giallorossi to the finals of both the UEFA Cup and the Coppa Italia.

They would ultimately lose the European showpiece to Inter, but - following a 0-0 draw at the San Siro in the first leg of the semi final - a Marco van Basten own-goal and a heroic performance from Giovanni Cervone in the second leg at the Olimpico saw off AC and booked Roma’s place in the Italian cup final where they pipped league winners Sampdoria thanks to a 4-2 aggregate win over two-legs.

Roma 5-0 Milan

3 May 1998
Serie A

You can’t think of these fixtures without this 5-0 battering towards the end of the last millennium; one that is the largest ever winning margin of matches between these two teams, and also Roma’s biggest victory over Milan.

Roma had slipped to sixth with three games to go and their hopes of securing UEFA Cup football the following season were under threat until this mauling of Milan that included strikes from Vincent Candela, Luigi Di Biagio (two), Paulo Sergio and Marco Delvecchio.

Candela’s volleyed opener, Biagio’s sumptuous second for Roma’s third and Sergio’s schooling of Alessandro Costacurta to make it 4-0 were stunning efforts that helped put the Giallorossi on course to ultimately grab fourth.

Roma 2-1 Milan

15 March 2008
Serie A

Milan were European and world champions going into the 2007-08 campaign, but their crowns were slipping by the time they arrived in Rome on Matchday 28 that season and they’d completely fallen by the end of the 90 minutes.

Roma were in second-place and gunning for the title under Luciano Spalletti but went behind to Kaka’s lovely finish after 56 minutes and were trailing with 12 minutes to go, until second half substitutes Ludovic Giuly and Mirko Vucinic struck within three minutes of each other to turn the game on its head.

That late comeback kept Spaletti’s men in the hunt for the Scudetto until the final day of the season, where they pulled up just three points shy of clinching the title.

Roma 4-2 Milan

22 December 2012
Serie A

Current Roma forward Stephan El Shaarawy actually started for Milan in this one, a game that - despite ending the 2012-13 season with the best goal scoring return of his career - he will most likely not view with any kind of fondness.

That’s because Roma romped to a 3-0 lead inside just half an hour of proceedings, with legendary pair Francesco Totti and Daniele De Rossi pulling the strings.

Their respective assists for strikes from Dani Osvaldo (2-0) and Erik Lamela (3-0) were drool-inducing, while headers from Nicholas Burdisso and Lamela again bookmarked the Roma scoring before two late goals in the last three minutes flattered the visitors to halve the deficit.