It goes from meh to bad for AC Milan now, with Christian Pulisic aggravating a different part of his body in the international break.
After the first game of the break, there were worries about Pulisic, with his ankle flaring up. It seemed not to be too much of a problem, though, and the American started last night’s game against Australia.
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So, no problem at all, Milan could rest… right?
Pulisic injured
Well, as Calciomercato.com reports, the star was substituted 31 minutes into the game, going down with a muscle injury in his right leg and being forced to leave the field with said injury. Evaluations will take place in America, and then he will return to Milano at some point today or tomorrow.
Unfortunately, there are no real signs of anything so far, so until the tests are completed, the Rossoneri are in a waiting game, leaving them anxious. However, it doesn’t seem great.
The winger is under pressure and falls over and then stretches for the ball, as can be seen below. This sequence then causes him to be removed from the field. More unneeded injury news from the international break. A real frustration that Massimiliano Allegri didn’t need.
— _captainpulisic (@_captainpuIisic) October 15, 2025
We need to sell Leao.
Ok tito
We love international breaks.
Why start him this game if he had an ankle knock and wasnt 100%. It’s not like it was an important game. It was a friendly
International break yes, but this small time manager shows a total lack of intelligence and management skills. What a blatant display of ineptitude. This tags on nicely to his comments on Pulisic during the summer.
Instead of protecting your star player in a meaningless friendly you put him at risk…most top class international team managers would never do that – you protect your star player. Absolute imbecile!!
This. Fng idiot. Risking someone for a fng friendly. Ridiculous.
Because Pochettino is one of the worst managers in history of football. He always was. He is clueless, and when you hear him talk you’d think it is Guardiola or Klopp. And yet he managed to lose the Ligue 1 title with PSG. You have to be special for that.
Bang on target!!
hahaha I forgot about that PSG losing the title! Classic! One really has to be a special breed to accomplish that feat.
Agree. It was a pointless friendly
F@#king international breaks!
We are going to have a strange line-up for the Fiorentina game.
No Rabiot, Saelemaekers, Leao and now Pulisic.
Estupinan under an injury cloud too.
Will have to start Gimenez (who will get back late from nth America. And Nkunku who isn’t fully match fit either.
These international breaks are out of control… at least Fiorentina are missing half their squad as well sheesh…
Except that they aren’t. Keane, Dodo and the rest of them apparently are healthy enough to play against us.
This NT break really screwed us over in particular.
So, he’s already injured and they still play him in a meaningless friendly against Australia. Great idea…
He should not have left for these unnecessary games. I think the palyer is part of the blame too. He needs to be able to communicate if he isn’t fit. He shouldn’t go. This is a potential disaster as he is our most prolofic player.
Remember he did that on the first international break and the coach and alot of fans roasted him saying hes not committed and doesn’t care about the national team. Could you imagine if he did it twice. It’s more on the atmosphere and expectations created by the coach
Does anyone here realize that US qualifies as a host to the WC and as such don’t have to play qualification games? All they are limited to are internationals to assemble a team to compete in ’26.
So no, for the US federation these aren’t just “stupid” friendlies. This is the only chance Poch has to work with this team ans assemble his roster for next year.
Yes, a friendly against one of the worst teams on the planet will help them when they play Brazil or France? Games like these are to try kids that you might take to the world cup…
They can’t play the likes of Germany or Brazil because everyone else is busy qualifying for the WC. So all they can do is play no name teams.
That’s not the issue for me. I dont care for the USMNT. My issue is why play him at all if he wasn’t fit for the last game.
yeah Japan, Ecuador and Uruguay are all no name teams