Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: AC Milan 9, Atalanta 3 is the first 9-3 game in Serie A history

Final · October 15, 1972

Serie A got a brand-new final score on October 15, 1972. AC Milan beat Atalanta 9-3, and in every Serie A game since 1929, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 9-3 sits among nearby Serie A scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 6-4, Juventus over US Palermo on May 5, 1957, 15 years and 6 months earlier. This is Serie A's 1st new final score of the 1972 season, and the grid now holds 78.4 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 10-3 had still never happened and 9-4 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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