Udinese will lock horns with Inter for the 104th time in Serie A when they meet on Sunday. Previous encounters have favoured the Nerazzurri, who have won 54, drawn 27 and lost 22 of those match-ups.
Udinese have triumphed in just one of the last eight meetings – 3-1 at Bluenergy Stadium on 18 September 2022 – and haven't won at San Siro since 16 December 2017, also a 3-1 victory. However, after Lazio, Inter are the team that Udinese have beaten away most often in Serie A – ten times.
The last time these two sides met in the league, Simone Inzaghi's team ran out 3-2 winners in Udine (28 September 2024) while the most recent encounter in Milan finished 4-0 to the Nerazzurri on 9 December 2023.
Udinese go into Matchday 30 with 40 points on the board. They haven't had a better tally at this stage since the 2012/13 season (42 points), when they ended up qualifying for Europe.
With 11 wins in his first 29 games, Kosta Runjaic has the fourth-best record for a coach in his debut campaign in the Udinese dugout, after Francesco Guidolin, Pasquale Marino and Luigi De Canio.
Udinese are the Serie A side with the third-most successful crosses (104) and third-most headed goals (nine), while Inter top both of those rankings (120 crosses completed and 13 goals from headers).
Lorenzo Lucca needs two more goals to equal the most goals scored by an Italian for Udinese in the last decade (Kevin Lasagna notched ten in the 2017/18 campaign).
Lucca and Christian Kabasele found the net in the reverse fixture against Inter, while Sandi Lovric scored against them on 18 February 2023 (a 3-1 defeat at San Siro) and Jaka Bijol did so on 18 September 2022 (a 3-1 success at Bluenergy Stadium).
The Slovene centre-back has made the third-most defensive blocks (139) in Serie A this term, behind Ardian Ismajli and Federico Baschirotto.
Florian Thauvin is a goal and an assist way from reaching 100 goals and 50 assists in the top five European leagues. Since the year of his debut, the only Frenchmen to have managed those figures are Kylian Mbappe, Antoine Griezmann, Alexandre Lacazette, Karim Benzema and Wissam Ben Yedder.
Jurgen Ekkelenkamp meanwhile needs just one more goal or assist to equal his goal+assist tally from last season (six), with Antwerp.
Two Udinese players previously plied their trade for Inter: Daniele Padelli and Alexis Sanchez. The goalkeeper spent four seasons in Milan (from 2017 to 2021) and made four appearances, while the striker donned the Nerazzurri jersey from 2019 to 2022 then again last season, scoring 18 goals in 102 games.
Former Udinese midfielder Piotr Zielinski (19 appearances between 2012 and 2014) won't be involved this weekend due to injury.
Udinese are Davide Frattesi's 'favourite' opponents: he has managed four goals in the six matches he has played against them, including one in the last meeting earlier this season.