CM: Milan’s injury trend repeats itself – 19 absences in 2023-24 so far | OneFootball

For the fourth consecutive year, AC Milan are experiencing an injury crisis in the October-November period which limits Stefano Pioli’s choices and thus has an impact on results.

As Calciomercato.com report, the latest issues suffered by Pierre Kalulu, Christian Pulisic and Marco Pellegrino – all of whom came off the pitch last night against Napoli – mean there have been 19 injuries since August, 12 of them muscular.

Mike Maignan, Rade Krunic, Luka Jovic, Noah Okafor, Davide Bartesaghi and Pierre Kalulu have all spent time out, while Mattia Caldara, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Marco Sportiello and Samuel Chukwueze are currently out.

Simon Kjaer sustained a muscle problem in the build-up to the Napoli game – one that Pioli admitted he would have started – while Ismael Bennacer’s case is a bit different as he has been out since his operation in May.

The report adds that difficult to say whose fault it is, certainly the problem has been there for years and no one at Milan has been able to find a solution.

If we take a step back and consider the third round of the Champions League as a point of reference, the situation is clearer: in the 2021-22 season for Porto-Milan, six players were out due to injury (Maignan, Theo, Rebic, Diaz, Messias , Florenzi).

In the 2022-23 season, seven players missed Chelsea-Milan (Maignan, Calabria, Theo, Florenzi, Messias, Saelemaekers, Kjaer, plus Ibrahimovic who not included in the UEFA squad list).

This year, four players were not able to take part in PSG-Milan (Sportiello , Loftus-Cheek, Chukwueze and Okafor plus Caldara, Bennacer and Jovic who was injured during the warm-up).

At the end of 2022 La Gazzetta dello Sport had calculated that from 1 July 2022 to 31 January 2022 Milan had racked up over 700 days of absence (almost 180 for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, almost 120 for Alessandro Florenzi, around 100 for Mike Maignan).

They underlined that from Junior Messias to Saelemaekers and from Ante Rebic to Theo Hernandez almost all the players in Pioli’s squad had at least one injury, often muscular problems. That same worrying pattern has not gone away.

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