AC Milan have been no strangers to injury crises in recent years, but this season the numbers have trended in the right direction.
As La Gazzetta dello Sport write, there were seasons where Milan players fell one after another like skittles. At Milanello, there were even some periods when the infirmary lacked sufficient beds for the number of injured players.
The Rossoneri have had recent campaigns in which it became normal to face matches with seven or eight players unavailable. This year’s Milan certainly has its flaws, but among its many strengths is a medical team that seems to have turned a corner.
Relief at last
They compared the 2024-25 Milan squad with 2025-26, examining data as of the end of March in both cases and considering only the league, since last year’s team was playing in the Champions League and reached the penultimate round of the Coppa Italia.
Four parameters were evaluated: the total number of incidents, those of a physical nature, the number of players involved, and the number of missed matches (i.e., matches where they were not called up), adding together the knockouts of the players involved.
Two considerations are obvious. The first: without European competition, there’s clearly less of an overcrowding of the schedule, linked to the increase in injuries, a central issue in football today. The second: the current squad is 23 players; last season’s was 26, so a greater chance in theory of injuries.
Given all this, the numbers are quite startling. So far in the league, 23 injuries have been recorded (i.e., 23 with different timing or causes), 13 of which were muscular, involving 17 players, for a total of 78 missed games.
The 2024-25 season: 34 injuries, 22 of which were muscular, involving 19 different players, and 129 missed games (the total rises to 181 when including cup competitions). There were 51 games on the board which is a lot in seven months.
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Both seasons have seen long-term injuries, particularly last year: Florenzi (7 months), Sportiello (3 months), Bennacer (3.5 months), Jovic (3 months), Okafor (1 month), Loftus-Cheek (2 months), and Emerson Royal (3.5 months).
This year, Torriani (one month), Leao (a month and a half), Jashari (two months), Rabiot (one month), Gimenez (four and a half months), and Loftus-Cheek (one month). This season has the sub-optimal conditions of Leao and Pulisic too, who played several games through pain.
we do have alot less players
You’re ignoring the biggest factor – training. New coaches have different training methods and it takes time for the players to adjust.
“New coaches have different training methods and it takes time for the players to adjust.”
So, based on that, you’re suggesting the amount of injuries should go further down then as the players are getting / have gotten used to Allegri’s methods, eh?