"The Devil cannot do without his quality": Christian Pulisic at AC Milan

Good news.
https://sempremilan.com/pulisic-back-gimenez-could-make-inter

 

"... MilanNews report that Christian Pulisic returned to full training with the rest of the squad on Wednesday. He has been out in recent weeks with a muscle problem picked up with the national team during the October break.

Now he is fully recovered from that issue and has gone back to training in full with the team. It means that he will be available on Saturday night in Parma, for the game at the Stadio Tardini. It remains to be seen if he will start on the bench, though, given how long he has missed."

 

I have a good feeling that Santi won't be missed for the next 5 weeks.

 

Will ACM play him a lot of minutes because they need to win or hold him back so Poch doesn't call him up?

 

The bench it is, but at least he's back ...

Milan visiting Parma (Suzuki starting)

Official Milan XI (3-5-2): Maignan; De Winter, Gabbia, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Fofana, Modric, Ricci, Estupinan; Nkunku, Leao.

Bench: Terracciano, Torriani, Tomori, Odogu, Bartesaghi, Athekame, Loftus-Cheek, Jashari, Pulisic.

 

That's a huge sigh of relief

 

Puli a huge chance to win it and just wide. Damn. Also had a great pass to lead into a breakaway. Salesmaker did some wild stuff and completely wiffed the open net lol

 

Missed the game but caught the highlights.

saw the CP miss off of the Leao back heel, ouch. Pre-injury break, he hits that 9 times out of 10. However, the good news is he looks just as dynamic as ever post-injury, saw some lovely passes from him.
If he is integrated back into the starting 11 after the international break, as expected, I think he’ll bounce right back into his good form.

I think Milan do have some of the tools to make a Scudetto run, but as others said, no way if they keep dropping points like today. You have to close out that 2-0 lead on the road. Milan will need Napoli and Inter and others to choke in some matches.
But my hot take is that Napoli may run away with it again, I think they are actually going to play better with De Bruyne out injured, as crazy as that sounds

 

Puli could of been the hero but he failed again.

 

lol… such a pessimistic post. CP has succeeded a lot more at Milan than failed.

 

It was dramatic.

 

He was good, but not good enough to overcome the force that was Saelemaeker. You just have to tip your hat.

 

Again?

 

Pk miss against juve

 

Parma-Milan, le pagelle di CM

Ricci 5,5: nel primo tempo funge da body guard di Modric e fa tanto filtro davanti alla difesa. Nella ripresa esce subito dalla partita e della sua zona di competenza il Parma banchetta senza troppi problemi. (dal 71' Pulisic 5: ha un alibi importante perché è reduce da soli due allenamenti con la squadra ma il goal che si mangia nel finale grida ancora vendetta)

Ricci 5.5: In the first half, he served as Modric's bodyguard and was a frequent filter in front of the defense. In the second half, he quickly faded from the game, and Parma dominated his area without too many problems. (From 71', Pulisic 5: he has a valuable excuse, having only had two training sessions with the team, but the goal he missed at the end he still cries out for revenge.)


Parma Milan 2-2, le pagelle della partita di Serie A

I subentrato

C.Pulisic 6

 

Italy: What will Christian Pulisic do during the break? Milan has scheduled a friendly against Serie B Virtus Entell on Friday to get playing time for Pulisic and Swiss international Ardon Jashari, who is recovering from a broken fibula.

Italy: .

Gazzetta dello Sport ratings (1=low; 10=high):
5 Christian Pulisic (AC Milan), sub-20 minutes (2-2 at Parma)

 

I blame it on injury return rust.

If he misses that after 2-3 full games after injury return, then yeah.

 

He'll move right into the starting 11 replacing Nkunku. That guy has been useless, sad.

 

He makes Santi blush.

2 donkeys

 

Nkunku was so good at Leipzig, what happened to him?

 

Another in a very long line of successful Bundesliga attackers who go to England and have their weaknesses exposed. Part of it is that the bottom end of that league is pretty lousy so it's easier to stat-pad.

Even last season, he scored 15 goals, but they were almost all against bad teams. Servette (2), Gent, Panathinaikos, FC Noah (2), Heidenheim, Benfica at the CWC, Southampton (2), Bournemouth, Morecambe, and Barrow (3).

He also hurt his knee in pre-season right after signing for Chelsea and missed 6 months.

 

Same thing that happened to Timo Werner and a host of other Bundi players that failed outside of Germany.

 

Squad around you often matters.

 

not trying to brag, because I am wrong very often in this sport, but I did see the Timo-Werner-being-a-bust from a mile away. He was a speed merchant, nothing more.

side note:I’m not going to write off Nkuku yet, but it’s good to know that right now he is in no danger of benching our guy.

 

I actually hopes Nkuku reaches his potential.

That mean Milan has a very potent offensive front three of Leao, Pulisic, and Nkuku. Milan can play without a #9.