Ruben Amorim's Historic Chance in Turin: Win and Make Milan History

Ruben Amorim walks into Turin on Sunday night chasing more than just three points. He is chasing history that has eluded some of the most iconic names ever to sit on the Milan bench.

Two games, two wins. A 2-1 comeback away at Torino, a controlled 2-0 over Venezia at San Siro. The start of the 2026-27 Serie A campaign has given Milan exactly what they needed under their recently-appointed coach: momentum, clarity, a sense that something new might actually stick.

Now comes the real exam. Juventus away.

A benchmark written in legend

If Amorim wins in Turin, he will become the first Milan coach since 1958 to win his first three Serie A matches in charge. That statistic alone cuts through the noise. It places his name, at least for this early chapter, alongside and above some of the club’s most revered figures.

Arrigo Sacchi never did it. Fabio Capello never did it. Carlo Ancelotti never did it.

Sacchi, the man who rewired European football from the San Siro touchline, stumbled in his second league game. His Milan lost to Fiorentina, undone by Ramon Diaz and a young Roberto Baggio. The revolution would come, the trophies would follow, but the opening act was not flawless.

Capello, the architect of the ruthless, machine-like Milan of the early 1990s, came closer. He won his first two league games in 1991. Then came his third: Juventus away. A 1-1 draw stopped the run and quietly froze his name just short of this particular line in the record books.

Ancelotti’s Milan, the side that would come to dominate Europe in the 2000s, started with a stalemate. His first Serie A match in charge, in 2001, finished 0-0 against Piacenza. No three-from-three, no perfect launch. His greatness arrived over time, not in a sprint.

That is the company Amorim is now keeping, and could, in one sharp stroke, surpass in terms of pure debut impact.

Chasing ghosts from the 1950s

Only three men have ever won their first three league matches in charge of Milan. All of them did it in a different footballing universe.

• Mario Sperone in 1952.
• Gipo Viani in 1956.
• Cina Bonizzoni in 1958.

Since Bonizzoni achieved the feat 68 years ago, no Milan coach has managed to match that perfect opening. Dozens have tried. Title winners, European champions, short-lived experiments and long-term builders. None of them walked through their first three Serie A fixtures without dropping a point.

Amorim now stands one win away from joining that tiny, almost forgotten club. One win away from doing something not even the titans of the modern Milan era could claim.

A test with weight

Strip it back, and Sunday is still just a league game in late August. Three points, one opponent, a long season ahead.

But context changes everything.

Milan arrive in Turin with six points and a new identity still wet in the paint. Juventus, as ever, represent the hardest kind of mirror: hostile stadium, high stakes, no hiding places. This is where a bright start either hardens into something serious or gets exposed as a brief surge.

For Amorim, it is not about living up to Sacchi, Capello or Ancelotti. Those stories have already been written. It is about writing his own, starting with a night in Turin that could drag his name out of the present and into the club’s deeper history.

The numbers are simple. Win, and he becomes the first Milan coach since 1958 to open with three straight Serie A victories. Lose or draw, and the record remains untouched, another near-miss to file alongside some of the greatest to ever do the job.

The stage is set at Juventus. Now we find out whether this Milan is just off to a good start, or at the beginning of something far more significant.