AC Milan are currently second in the Italian top flight with a record of 10 wins, four draws and two defeats leaving them level on points with Juventus, but behind The Old Lady due to a 2-0 defeat to them earlier in the campaign. They are one of European football’s form teams at the moment having recorded back-to-back wins over Siena and Cagliari to extend their unbeaten league run to 11 games. Unsurprisingly the bookmakers have made them 8/11 favourites to extend that sequence with an 11th win of the season, keeping the pressure firmly on Juventus as they head into the second half of the campaign.

Atalanta are in 11th place with a record of six wins, eight draws and two defeats leaving them six points off the European places, and they would have been level with fifth-placed Inter Milan had they not been hit by a six-point deduction from the Italian FA.  They are unbeaten in their last seven games having thumped Cesena in their final game before the Christmas break, and Atalanta are 4/1 to dent Milan’s title challenge with a win here. The draw is priced 5/2.

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