GdS: Okafor also expected to miss Lecce game – the reason | OneFootball

AC Milan look likely to be thin on forward options for tonight’s game against Lecce as Noah Okafor is also expected to miss the game, according to a report.

According to La Gazzetta dello Sport (via MilanNews), Alvaro Morata is not the only forward who will miss tonight’s game against Lecce because – as Paulo Fonseca revealed yesterday – Noah Okafor will also be out of the game.

More specifically, the Swiss will be unavailable due to muscle fatigue, but he should be available for Tuesday’s Champions League away match against Bayer Leverkusen. It will certainly put more pressure on Tammy Abraham and even perhaps Luka Jovic to contribute off the bench.

With the latest two issues the list of unavailable players grows, given that it already included Marco Sportiello, Alessandro Florenzi, Ismael Bennacer and the captain Davide Calabria. The latter, like Okafor, should be back for next week’s European away match.

For Morata the issue is bursitis, which forced Fonseca to take him out of the starting line-up to avoid further complicating his condition, though it is not fully ruled out that he might play some minutes off the bench.

“He has been called up, we’ll wait until tomorrow to see how he is but right now what I can say is that he is in doubt. I don’t know if we can use him tomorrow. I don’t want to take risks and lose him for more time. Let’s see tomorrow,” Fonseca said in his pre-match press conference.