Christian Pulisic isn’t in the best condition and will thus start on the bench for AC Milan against Juventus, according to a report. Samuel Chukwueze will thus replace the American winger.
Pulisic returned from international duty a bit later than everyone else, just like Yunus Musah, and hasn’t been in the best condition in the last few days. Reports suggested yesterday evening that he would be on the bench, but Paulo Fonseca was hoping to give it one last go today.
According to MilanNews, it now looks like Pulisic will be on the bench, with Samuel Chukwueze taking his spot on the right. The Nigerian also started against Cagliari but Loftus-Cheek always looked set to start for this clash, hence why the former is replacing Pulisic tonight.
As for the rest of the XI, the midfield is a given with Youssouf Fofana and Tijjani Reijnders while Matteo Gabbia is back in defence. He will partner up with Malick Thiaw, not with Fikayo Tomori, and Theo Hernandez will also be looking to have a better day on the left.
Predicted Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Emerson, Thiaw, Gabbia, Theo Hernandez; Fofana, Reijnders; Chukwueze, Loftus-Cheek, Leao; Morata.
Predicted Juventus XI (4-2-4): Di Gregorio; Savona, Gatti, Kalulu, Cambiaso; Locatelli, Thuram; Conceicao, Koopmeiners, McKennie, Yildiz.
Loftus Cheek smh
I’ll never understand why we play 4231 when we don’t have pivot players and we don’t have an AM.
We did have success with it when pioli had players for it but for the last 3 years we just been kicking a dead corpse. Idk any other analogy for this.
Furthermore I don’t understand why we brought in a coach who uses a 4231 when we didn’t have players to play it to being with..
It’s crazy..insane. counterproductive. Stupid..naive. lack of insight. Etc etc
It don’t get either. Are they that stupid at Milan? They didn’t even try to sign an attacking midfielder all summer.
I’m really sick of this club and the people running it. What a bunch of bozos. All they do is put square pegs in round holes and insisting on playing players out of their natural position. Instead of playing them where they are better suited to succeed. Smh
Typo alert. The whole article is about Chuk playing instead of Pulisic.
But you haven’t updated the predicted line-up at the bottom.
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Eagle-eyed! Cheers
Sorry can anyone explain to me why tomori is not playing. It should be tomori and gabbia since tomoris got pace
true, I agree with you! I am more confident in Tomori & gabbia
Because all tomori has is pace. If we are in a position where we need pace from the cbs we fúcked up enough already..
Loftus cheek is short one
All we need to win this match is total commitment from the players and a bit of luck.Forza Milan.
They both benched. Fonseca start with RLC with no use. Only run and pass with no idea, in the weekend got the big salary. Hahaha…