As Junior Messias and Alexis Saelemaekers are struggling to hit form on the right flank, Stefano Pioli could turn to a player that hasn’t featured since December, namely Samu Castillejo.
Messias and Saelemaekers have scored seven goals combined this season and lately, they haven’t been productive at all. The Brazilian played from start against Bologna last night but was extremely poor, subbed off after just 45 minutes. And Saelemaekers wasn’t even brought on.
As our colleagues at SempreMilan.it highlight, Pioli could turn to what might not be a popular solution: to relaunch Samu Castillejo. The Spaniard has only amassed 122 minutes all season but at this point, given the form of the others, giving him a chance might be a welcome decision.
Castillejo has continued to train hard at Milanello despite the lack of playing time, last featuring in December against Napoli (12 minutes) and is probably eager to show his worth. Pioli is thinking about the solution and we will have to wait and see.
