GdS: 13th-best attack in Serie A – the numbers behind Milan’s scoring crisis

Massimiliano Allegri will hope that his forwards can start scoring again, but in the meantime goals might need to come from other sources.

As La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) write, Milan have scored only one goal in their last five games and it came from Adrien Rabiot against Verona on April 19th. If five games aren’t enough evidence to confirm the Rossoneri’s state of crisis, we can easily extend the discussion.

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In 16 league matches in the second half of the season, Milan have just 16 goals. The Rossoneri have the 13th-best attack in Serie A after the halfway point. The team’s top scorer? Rabiot again, with three goals.

Where are the goals?

Allegri would love to have the answer. The coach has been looking for it since March 1st, when Rafael Leao celebrated scoring the 2-0 goal against Cremonese in the final minutes. That goal remains the last one scored by a Milan forward.

Against Atalanta, they have yet another chance to break a drought that has now lasted more than two months. Yet, there was a time when the forwards scored with reasonable consistency. In the first half of the season, of the 32 goals in the first 19 games, 18 were scored by Pulisic (8), Leao (7) and Nkunku (3). A 56.2% share of the total.

And in the second half of the season? The entire Milan attack – strengthened in January by the arrival of Niclas Füllkrug – is stuck on five goals. Two from Leao, two from Nkunku, and one from the German striker on loan from West Ham.

Meanwhile, Pulisic – the top scorer in the first half of the season – hasn’t found the net in 2026 (and is also now injured). The result is that the Diavolo’s strikers have accounted for just 31.2% of the club’s total goals since the halfway point.

The data has emerged clearly in the last seven games, in which Allegri’s team has failed to score a total of five times. How did this drought come about? After the defeat against Sassuolo, Matteo Gabbia didn’t point the finger at the attackers.

“As I always say, we defend with eleven men, so if we don’t score, it can’t just be the forwards’ fault,” was the gist of his speech. A logical reasoning, because while it’s true that Pulisic and his teammates have problems with their aim or form, it’s equally undeniable that there is a lack of service.

In the last five games, the Rossoneri have had just nine shots on target (under two per game). In the same games, the total number of shots is 48. That’s less than 10 per game, significantly below the seasonal average.

Reducing everything to the condition of the attackers seems frankly limiting. In the first half of the season, Pulisic and Leao played together on just two occasions (the derby and the 1-1 draw with Genoa) due to recurring physical problems, but the goal count added up.