Pulisic living large in Serie A, bags another goal for AC Milan

Pulisic is thriving with the Rossoneri

Life in Italy seems to be suiting Christian Pulisic to a tee.

The U.S. men’s national team star may or may not be enjoying the ossobucco and risotto alla Milanese, but he’s certainly thriving with AC Milan.

Pulisic made it two goals from two games in Serie A, starting and finishing an attack as the Rossoneri opened the scoring against Torino on Saturday. Milan would go on to post an emphatic 4-1 win.

The connection was a familiar one, as Pulisic pounced on a loose ball at midfield to spring a transition attack against a scrambling Torino. Pulisic found his former Chelsea teammate Ruben Loftus-Cheek (who helped court the USMNT attacker this summer), who drove into the box before gently rolling the ball back across the box.

Olivier Giroud found the pass to be just out of reach, but Pulisic had kept his run going, finishing the play off with a tap-in.

Pulisic nearly added a second in the game’s final stages after being teed up by USMNT teammate Yunus Musah, who made his Milan debut as a 66th minute substitute.

This goal came less than a week after Pulisic’s first competitive goal in red and black, which was an absolute thunderbolt against Bologna. Starting nominally on the right side of Stefano Pioli’s front three, Pulisic has shown instant chemistry with Giroud (another former Blues teammate) and Portugal winger Rafael LeĂŁo.

Pioli praised Pulisic after the match, but chose to temper some expectations on the 24-year-old and on his team after an excellent start to the season.

“He is very intelligent,” Pioli said of Pulisic. “We all know what the football world is like, we need to be balanced in the positive and negative evaluations. I saw progress from the Bologna game, but also things we can do better, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.”

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