Theo can defend, he's just gotten too high on his own supply. He stands in the defensive area when it seem appropriate, but it sure doesn't seem like his heart is in it. Loves to get forward, however, and is darn good at it.
You have two outside backs who can’t/won’t defend and a CM pairing that doesn’t have any bite. Do you: A. Play a 4-3-3 with two wings who also don’t defend, and with your most consistent attacking player in the defensive CAM role B. Play at more aggressive and ball progressing midfielder in one of the CM spots, push forward your more attacking CM to CAM, and move your most consistent attacking player to the wing to both find space to create chances and shore up wing defense C. Switch to a setup that creates three at the back on defense, insert a RWB who has both the aggressiveness to help on defense and ball carrying to maintain possession, all the while freeing up your most consistent attacking player to wreak havoc on the opposing team. D. Try some of B and C to very good effect but consistently default back to A despite mounting evidence it doesn’t work. Coaching is hard.
Don't count out Leao. The season is still long, and he could makes a late surge in form and consistency.
Am I the only one who thinks Pulisic is more valuable to the team on the wing relative to ACM? He has been fine in the middle, tidy and occasionally dangerous. He has been a monster for Milan on the wing, attacking the goal from the half space, crashing in front from the weak side, playing inverted from either side, or getting to the end line and crossing the ball from either side. That is his game in my opinion.
yeah, he can be good at either but when he is on the wing, he is more goal dangerous and play-makes from the wing anyway.
I don't think it depends on him as much as it depends on Cheek, Chuk or YM. Mostly Chuk or Cheek, whichever one of them is playing best dictates where he can provide the most help to the team as a whole. He can do all the things you mentioned from either spot. If Chuk can find a final ball, Puli in the middle keeps RLC on the bench and I think that is a good thing. I think his truest talent is being a chaos agent on offense and forcing defenders to make bad choices. The offense was plenty good enough against Cag, but Chuk needs to contribute. When the defense collapses on the middle and leaves all the wide space in the world and say go ahead and beat us from that spot, he needs to oblige them.
I argued same above. Milan would do better upgrading ACM and letting CP play "libero" RM. Chuk can be good, but is so inconsistent.
CP is most lethal from the wing. If Musah can improve, here's what I like to see for Milan. -----------Morata----------- Leao----Reindeer----CP ------Fofana-----Musah-----
USMNT Otaku on x is reporting that West Ham is working on a move to sign Pulisic. I hope he stays where he is at.
If he keeps dropping a goal or assist every match, we will continue to see many rumors to clubs across Europe. And I know big money moves are enticing, but something tells me he loves where he is, a historic club, with a home pretty close to Lake Como (apparently).
Just a correction: USMNT Otaku doesn't report anything. It's one of many aggregator twitter accounts that just repost every rumor (both reliable and garbage, but mostly garbage) that turns up in a news alert.
🚨 Per @cmdotcom: Milan have reportedly received “important calls” from Liverpool, Manchester United, and West Ham about Christian Pulisic. Club owners also now reportedly value him back up at €60M given his contributions to the club 👀 pic.twitter.com/zgQBqGE8z4— USMNT NATION (@USMNTvsHaters) November 17, 2024
I believe €60m to West Ham would be a club record purchase by nearly €10m. IDK, it's silly season, but Liverpool or ManU seem much more likely to meet that price than West Ham.
“Important calls” lol. Almost sounds like phrasing from a “sir, we’ve never seen anything like this” story.
Oh dear lord. If I have to deal with premier league fans and commentators talking about Pulisic again I'm going to be angrily frowning like you've never seen me angrily frown before.