AC Milan’s rotten record when it comes to penalties continued on Sunday night as Christian Pulisic failed to convert from the spot against Juventus.
After being instrumental in virtually every match Milan have played so far this season, Pulisic was decisive in a negative way this time. The American missed a penalty last night against Juventus, thus depriving the Rossoneri of not only the three points, but also the chance to return to being top.
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Allegri couldn’t look
As La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) reports this morning, Massimiliano Allegri preferred not to watch the American’s penalty and remained with his back turned. Hearing the jubilation of the Juventus fans, the coach immediately turned to his assistant Landucci.
He asked him: “He shot with a flat foot? What? I told him not to do that.” Allegri then immediately applauded the former Chelsea player and even hugged him when he was substituted for Christopher Nkunku a few minutes later.
It is Pulisic’s second penalty missed in a Rossoneri shirt, and the interesting thing is that he also missed the first in Turin, a city that evidently doesn’t suit him very well in this regard (last season against Torino, Vanja Milinkovic-Savic saved).
At Milan, penalty kicks continue to be a problem, as evidenced by this truly shocking statistic: since the start of 2024, the Rossoneri have missed seven of their 13 penalties in Serie A (54%). This is a record among the top five European leagues in the period.
Another very negative number: five misses in the last seven penalties taken in the league. Despite what happened yesterday, however, Milan’s penalty taker will still be Pulisic, as Allegri assured after the match: “Pulisic is the penalty taker, a missed penalty doesn’t change things.”
Modric should take all penalties. 24 goals / 30 Penalties taken.
Yeah, I’ve watched most of them and he is not really secure as a penalty taker. A lot of those were almost saved and 99% of them were for Croatia, he didn’t shot penalties at Madrid. Also Pulisic has a better record than that. 13 goals, 15 taken.
Pulisic’s career record is 13/15, 87% compared to 80% top leagues average (82-85 for most successful elite strikers).
It’s just that we remember his only two career misses very well.
Really elite penalty takes have 90% and more. I think Haaland is around 90%, Van Basten 100% was over 90%. Lewandowski also. Balotelli is in top 5 in history. It also depends how many penalties they took, so we can’t take it for face value.
Messi is below 80%.
Way bigger players (Roberto Baggio, Rui Costa, Seedorf… just to name a few Milan greats) have missed more important penalties, so give him a break.
blame Leao for the missed penalty
I remember Baggios in ’94. Will never forget Pirlo and Shevas in ’05.
These things happen.
His record would probably also have been 15/17 if Tammy and Theo hadn’t done us over against Fiorentina last year…