AC Milan took a while to get going against Club Brugge at San Siro in the Champions League, but they took the lead through the red hot Christian Pulisic.
When the starting line-ups came out it became apparent that Pulisic had been diverted back to the right wing with Samuel Chukwueze dropping back to the bench, but it was from a set piece that he made his first real impact of the game.
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In the 34th minute, Milan did take the lead and it came in rather bizarre circumstances. Pulisic lined up to take a corner on the left side and went for the usual low whipping delivery to the near post, yet it somehow evaded both runners and Mignolet between the posts to end up in the back of the net, making it 1-0 to the hosts.
7th goal for Pulisic in his 11th game for AC Milan. . 🔥
Olímpico no less 🚬
— herculez gomez (@herculezg) October 22, 2024
What form. What class. Make no mistake his transfer was the best thing to happen for us.
yes i would say he has been the best transfer we had have since 2010 with theo leao and mike
Puli, world-class. What a season he’s having!
And to think that anti-American haters called him washed and a Chelsea reject and said he was being hired just because our owner is American and wanted to increase merchandise sales in the USA.
Puli rapidly shut the doubters up and became Milan’s best player.
Pulisic is excellent as standard, but the team is not looking good again! From round to round I expect something more in C.L. but this kind of game just doesn’t go anywhere.
Forcing the play down the left side for the entire first half was so frustrating to watch. They have a player in the form of his life, but to try and build another players confidence before they are winning 2-0 or 3-0 is just freaking stupid and still says a lot about this team, granted maybe RLC and Emerson were making the team scared to play down the right, but I doubt it. Wait, until you are comfortably winning before you start to care about leao’s confidence, but instead care about his confidence more then first winning. What does that say to Pulisic as well, I smell some jealousy or something happening in that squad. Time to put Chuku on the right and move Pulisic into the midfield like it was when Okafor came on, or just leave Leao on and put pulisic in the middle with chuku on the right. Still think okafor has earned himself a start, we looked like a team against udinese before the red card and a team against club Brugge as soon as the subs were made. It’s time for feelings to be spared and Fonseca to start Okafor