Christian Pulisic has hit the nadir of his club career.
Injuries have impacted the U.S. national team star far too often in recent seasons but when healthy, he’s pretty much always played.
Not anymore.
The culprit has ironically been Frank Lampard, the manager under whom Pulisic has had he most success during his time at Chelsea. This time around as caretaker manager, Lampard has played Pulisic in just two of his seven games in charge.
Pulisic was shut out again in both of Chelsea’s matches this past week, including a game in which he was a healthy scratch for a Premier League matchday squad for the first time this season.
How have things got this bad? Does the winger deserve to be benched so often? Let’s take a look to lead off this week’s Five.