Christian Pulisic smashes the soccer ball from the spot to level AC Milan with Lecce. This time, not taking any chances by sending it with power down the middle. Pressure? It doesn’t bother him. He’s still only 26 years old, but he’s played in World Cups, in the Champions League, and for numerous world-class teams. He has now more than proved that he is a world-class player. Perhaps the best American soccer player to ever to play the game.
Watch Pulisic score a very important penalty kick for AC Milan in the video below.
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Christian Pulisic converts from the spot to level Milan with Lecce
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Furthermore, Pulisic has shown his ability to setup his team teammates time and time again. Even though sometimes they don’t convert. He plays so calm and smart. Whereas João Félix often tries to do the special trick or move – tending to over do it. He has become a very reliable player for AC Milan this season.
However, many soccer pundits would like to see Pulisic add the ability to score from outside the box with a long range strike now and again. This would then open up his game even more. He’s fond of those darting runs into the box and scoring from long distance would it make those runs even more unexpected or hard to track.
Of course he missed a penalty kick just last week, the first of his career, when Torino goalkeeper Sergej Milinkovic-Savic made a good save, after a decent strike by Pulisic.
Here, Pulisic drew and converted the penalty kick versus Lecce – with tons of pressure on him and AC Milan. Plus, later, he scored the would be game-winning goal. Rafael Leão sending a clever ball to the back post that Pulisic ran on to and scored with the inside of his foot.
He showed incredible mental strength to step up and convert the penalty kick. And then to score of the game winning goal just shows how valuable he is to AC Milan now.
Overall, a solid game from the American. A second-half brace from Christian Pulisic in just 10 minutes to turn the game around.
Additionally, the game winning goal scorer earned the Panini Player of the Match in the Lecce versus AC Milan game. As far as stats go, he has scored 14 goals and added 9 assists for the Italian club this season.
Moreover, scoring the penalty and getting the game winner should really be a boost to his confidence going forward. He was in a bit of a lull the last few games.
Finally, hopefully Pulisic has a long career at AC Milan, and in the Italian Serie A. He deserves it. Off the soccer field, another thing that’s impressive, is he now speaks Italian, and German from his days at Dortmund. I recommend watching the Paramount+ documentary on Pulisic to learn more about how he’s become a world-class player.
