Yunus Musah scored his first goal for the United States during their win over Panama, and above all his performance in the 2-0 win could offer some hints to AC Milan boss Paulo Fonseca.
As Calciomercato.com recall, Milan were convinced by Musah’s time at Valencia to invest €20m to sign him, but since arriving he has often ‘seemed like a fish out of water, without a well-defined role and tasks’, due to Stefano Pioli moving him around and Fonseca not fully trusting him yet.
After registering the assist for Noah Okafor’s equaliser in the 2-2 draw with Torino, Musah has gradually disappeared from the radar, playing around 60 minutes against Lazio, Venezia and Lecce comebined.
He remained on the sidelines in the derby and in the last round against Fiorentina, in addition to the first two Champions League matches against Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen. Fonseca’s choice to switch to the new 4-4-2 brings the best out of Tijjani Reijnders and Youssouf Fofana, but hasn’t hlped Musah.
However, the goal against Panama under the new coach Mauricio Pochettino offers interesting indications for the near future. Pioli used him as a right-back and as a right wing-back, with the assist against Torino coming from that area of the pitch.
The former Valencia man would probably say his natural role is as a mezzala in a 4-3-3 system but he can still provide a lot of energy on the right side, in addition to being able to show off his ball progression.
With a run of seven games in 21 days to come from Saturday, Fonseca will have to work out how to effectively rotate and get the best out of each player. Amid the injury doubts surrounding Samuel Chukwueze, it could be that Musah ends up being Christian Pulisic’s deputy.
The use of a player with the dynamism and work rate of Musah would offer the Rossoneri the opportunity to become more unpredictable and to start considering variations on their formation.
International breaks are much maligned because they take away players and time to work with the coaches, yet this break could for once offer Milan the solution to the enigma.
So it’s the third coach to use Musah as a right winger. Moncada must be drinking hard with Scaroni to think that he could be a correct midfielder.
Dude doesn’t even look like a winger either. He just looks like he “just plays there”. Matter of fact any position looks like he just plays there lol 😂
Kalulu sale makes them look like fools so that will be their last strategy…
I also think aside from Musah, Calabria in RCB would also be way more productive.
Just make him focus on defense and sometimes go up until midfield max as a support… his long passes and 1v1 defending should also be better cause speed doesn’t matter as much if the attacker is pushed into corner every time and has no space to run around the defender which is objectively our current captains biggest weakness…
Theo is also freed up and our striker shortage is not an issue anymore… but midfield is gonna be even more scrapped…
Ofc he must play by the trow in line,he is to dumb to play deeper in midfield ,you dont have to be genius to figure out that
This guy is gifted but the coach is playing some weird formation where only a few players can flourish with. Wasting a young confident strong skilful mazella.