Once they return from the international break, AC Milan will seek tests for Christian Pulisic and Adrien Rabiot, according to a report.
This week, the international players will return to Milanello, with training expected to start again tomorrow. However, it seems that it may not be the case for everyone.
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Alexis Saelemaekers has already returned early from international duty for scans, and he will not be the only one to follow that plan.
Tests scheduled
After they return from their international commitments tomorrow, Rabiot and Pulisic will also head for scans, with both suffering from issues, as MilanNews reports.
The most pressing one is for Pulisic, whose situation looks ‘rather serious’ after suffering a hamstring injury against Australia on Tuesday night. His ankle also flared up over the break, so that could be another thing to check.
For Rabiot, the midfielder took a knock and was not involved in the 2-2 draw with Iceland or the training session which took place the day before. However, Didier Deschamps stressed that things were done in a ‘precautionary’ manner. So, it could just be a check to see if everything is ok, rather than what is up.
Either way, considering how vital the pair have been for Milan, it is not great.
International breaks are the worst.
And a friendly for Pulisic no less…
Too much international football. Boring games, too frequently with too many injuries to important players. Most games are truly meaningless and it sucks the air completely out of the club competition’s
I don’t know why Milan management believed they only needed a squad of 22-24 players because of no European football. With all these international friendlies and useless international tournaments every squad competing for titles should have at minimum 25-30 players.
True
While that might be true it seems Pochettino is getting his revenge on Pulisic for not playing the gold cup this summer… This is the second international break he makes him play while not being 100% fit. And in both cases it was friendly games that don’t have any meaning, not WC qualifiers. But why would he care? It’s not like he’s losing one his best players for important matches – that is only a problem for Milan
Jason Geria, the defender from the Australian Men’s National Team, made two crunching tackles on Pulisic, 11 minutes apart and in the first 25 minutes of a “friendly”. He said they were not targeting Pulisic, but he alone had two really bad fouls. The one at 15 minutes is a yellow card all day long and the second should have been red.
No apology.
What the heck Australia? Please explain to Geria that he is a hack and that he just took out Milan’s (and Serie A’s) best player in a friendly.