AC Milan’s injury situation seems to have gone from bad to worse as they had to take three players off during the game against Napoli at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona tonight.
The first to come off was Pierre Kalulu, who started over the suspended Malick Thiaw. He pulled up after a tackle appearing to be in discomfort in the thigh region, with Marco Pellegrino coming on to replace him.
Then, at half-time it became apparent that Christian Pulisic had been withdrawn, and Luka Romero took his spot with Samuel Chukwueze out due to a muscle issue.
Finally, Pellegrino – who had come on for Kalulu and stood as Milan’s second fit centre-back – was brought off inside the final ten minutes after he began limping.
According to MilanNews, Pulisic was replaced as a precaution at half-time in Napoli-Milan due to feeling some discomfort, while Kalulu sustained a bruise on his left thigh. Developments on Pellegrino are awaited.
This is ridiculous
Injury is our last name.
No wonder Pulisic was sub off, we never had any luck with injury.
What happened to our Milan Lab. Are they employing doctors from eBay seeing that I’ve seen eBay all night
AC Injury.
For the last 6 years.
6? You are being to kind. More like 14 years. Pato, SES, etc
Whe Okafor don’t play as a substitute right winger ? He should be stronger winger than Romero.
Divock Origi is much better than Jovic. Next year…
And Pioli does have very very tough job in Milan. He must develop young players without experience.
Milan owner must think twice. Is this logic with youngsters necessary?!?
Fûck sake.. we have some depth but this is pushing it
For fu$ck sake, man, what happened to Milan Lab. This is not normal at all. So many injuries and it’s just 10 game.
It is bad luck. However, a lot of teams have been plagued with lots of injuries. Congested schedule is to blame.
Luck does have something. In scudetto year we had good luck. Now we have better team than last year, but no luck with red cards, missed opportunities and injuries.
I don’t believe Pulisic had any issues, if Milan had won I think we would have heard a different explanation
U are wrong.
Pulisic is actually injured, because it will take a mad man to sub him off after his first half performance.
I agree. In my book it would be a fireable offense if Pioli took Pulisic off at half time because he thought the result was secure in this game and wanted to give Romero time.
I think it’s time, it’s getting ridiculous these injuries, season after season. It’s time for A full independent inquiry to probe Milan physical and medical departments.
last week Psg were trying to injure pulisic, those tackles were violent, he prolly got a injury from psg. Today, the the end of the 1st half was milan looking for a 3rd goal, and playing to aggressive/carless, throwing bodies into bad tackles.
There is moneyball for you, high talent, high risk, low reliability when you need it most.
Third string winger in one of our most important fixtures was brought on.
This is why I said, they couldn’t miss their shot this summer. I was apprehensive exactly because of this. These injuries are not new, we were supposed to expect to see this unravel as such. They had to spend more or it would cost us precious points that would compromise our chances of qualifying. This management is as reactive as you can get. We needed an extra CB and Striker.
That 6.5 million plus commision of 15 over 5 years we saved by letting Thuram go to Inter or the couple million in wages for Taremi, you are seeing it. 0 goals in the CL. That is 70 million lost this year.
Letting Gabbia leave, there you go. But hey, we made 6 million last year, let’s applaud the balance sheet, it helped us in the last 5 crucial games.
Thuram doesn’t want to go to Milan tho
we gave him less than his asking prices so Inter jumped in, offered him a million more per year and gave his agent a signing bonus. We refused to counter the offer Inter made.
70m lost, are you insane?
Where did you learn maths? Murica?
If you don’t advance in the CL to the quarter finals, top 8, yeah that is 70 million euros. If you don’t qualify the next season it is even more.
We did not have a qualifying team last year. We finished 5th. Our defense and scoring struggled. The same as this year. Which means we didn’t improve enough and had to do more
Moneyball was a buzz term for a very specific thing 20 years ago. You are only applying it to what you see at Milan because the media has lazily called it that and you in turn have lazily complied.
If you don’t like our approach, fine, but calling it ‘moneyball’ just makes it look like you haven’t studied either model.
What you saw last night was a manager who hasn’t trusted his squad players enough to give them minutes when he could have done (in easier games) and then had to throw them to the lions with cold legs.
We have 5 CBs, we don’t need another one. Yes, we need a striker, and given that Taremi nearly got over the line I would argue we were prepared to lay down cash for one. I don’t know the details of what happened in the background with him, and as you’re simply quoting top level figures reported in the media, I assume you don’t either…
Moneyball is an approach based on statistics that uses analytics to determine which players are available on cheap deals to reduce expenses on salaries. Having 5 centerbacks doesn’t mean one that is never played a game for a major club in Europe, that is a reserve team player not a main roster one.
Also they left the pursuit of a striker to the last minute to try to squeeze out a cheapskate price out of the players and teams but got sent packing when they offered a guy 2 million euros when he could make 3 to 4 times that easily anywhere else.In the case of Thuram they made a cheap lowball offer abd felt “comfortable and confident ” it was a closed deal.
These management figures are delusional and out of touch, fall in line with them to protect then if you please.
Also, half the players we bough were purchased late in the window again to save money so didn’t have tine to train and prepare properly so the coach as useless as he can be with selections, didnt have them at his disposal against weaker teams.
Pulisic suffered a flexor injury. He was superb in first half and there is no way he would have been subbed out if not for an injury.
Kalulu, quadriceps. Pellegrino, bad ankle sprain.
3 injuries in one game are a lot. We would have won without these injuries as Puli was destroying Napoli’s defense and Kalulu was playing well; we wouldn’t have needed to bring in a youngster who did make a mistake in their first goal.
We know have like 6 players with muscle injuries. There is something wrong with Milan’s medical / trainer department.