The week has not started well for AC Milan in terms of preparing for the second game of the season against Parma on Saturday, as Alvaro Morata will miss around three weeks with a muscle issue.
According to various reports, Morata will miss the next two league games against Parma and Lazio and will not be available for Spain, who play Serbia and Switzerland in the UEFA Nations League during the next break after sustaining a muscle problem.
MilanNews naturally ask the question of who will replace Morata for the couple of games that he is likely to miss, and there are three options at present stretching from the most logical to the more fanciful hypotheses.
The natural replacement is obviously Luka Jovic, who however was very disappointing against Torino and therefore it is not excluded that Paulo Fonseca could give a chance to another player.
That player could well be Noah Okafor, who came on and did well against the Granata and scored the equaliser in the 95th minute. He has earned a ‘super sub’ reputation, yet the feeling is he deserves more starts.
The last idea leads to Francesco Camarda, fresh from his first two goals as a professional on Saturday evening in Milan Futuro’s 2-1 victory in the Coppa Italia Serie C against Novara, though for obvious reasons this seems a more unlikely scenario.
I think it’s time to level up camarda. The talent already there Milan !!
Really? Put the pressure of leading the line for a “scudetto challenger” on the shoulders of a 16 year old? No thanks. Okafor has earned the start.
Really? First injury already!!!
Give Okafor the chance, he’s earned it.
Good shout in theory.
He needs more minutes for continuity, but he isn’t a sole 9. Every goal he had scored, he was an additional striker with other players in the box to free up the space…
He hadn’t started too many games under Pioli and the ones where he did start, it was with other players who hadn’t played much (Jovic and Chuk last season), and that was a spectacular failure across the front three.
so……… more questions than answers …
Exactly.
But whose fault is that? Management. Neither Jovic nor Okafor are pure #9’s – YET – we are told by management we are set with Our current crop of strikers.
And we are supposedly to believe we are serious about wining the league and progressing to the knockout stages in UCL? Ya right
The problem with Jovic is that he excels more with a pairing striker also three times trial is fair enough to pass a verdict on a striker not just one match, meanwhile this is also a clear indication that we need Chiesa asap, there nothing like the squad is bulky, injuries would come and those with club depth will excel
Give Okafor the chance as a CF. This is the perfect time for it. Lets see what he can do in full game. (I think we should have kept Colombo as a back up too.)
Give Okafor a shot! And then have Camarda be the sub
I’m with this one – also I would be putting Pulisic back on the wing and getting Chuck out of there. As has been said elsewhere, he’s pretty tame against low block, which we will face 70%+ of the time. RLC in the middle and if he doesn’t perform, Liberali is waiting…
I would have Leao as a CF and start Okafor on the wing. I believe that triangle with Pulisic can do damage.
Okafor for first 45 then the rest to the kid Camarda.
We never let youngsters like Camarda play, that’s why the state of Italian clubs and national team is so deplorable. Loan him to mid table Serie B side to ruin his career ig?
Is he even 16 yet ? Relax bro.
Go get Lorenzo Lucca from Udinese for about 17M. It’s the price Genoa paid Sassuolo for Pinnamonti, who had an almost identical season statistically and thus is the benchmark. Put Salad up for sale if we need to generate funds, if we use anything coming in from Adli, Pobega and Bennacer on Kone. If Kone doesn’t come in then Benny stays.
Don’t write off Jovic, it was the first game of the season. You may want to sub him with Okafor at half time if things are going sideways. And please let Camarda develop in peace for this season with calls to senior team here and there, don’t overburden him with unrealistic expectations
Okafor all day
Maybe he’ll play saladmaker as cf.