Pulisic steals show as several struggle: Player ratings for Lecce-Milan from Italian papers | OneFootball

AC Milan, by the skin of their teeth, managed to overturn a two-goal deficit against Lecce last night, but the papers have not held back on their ratings, despite the end result.

Once again, Milan are in a period of peril, and there is seemingly no escaping it. In fact, despite getting three points, you could argue that the team are now deeper into the void, given all the game did was frustrate, and further frustrate fans.

The Rossoneri were poor again, and then players decided to show up and get a result, a needed reaction to a completely avoidable situation – a familiar story, once again.

Ratings from the newspapers

Starting with this morning’s edition of Gazzetta dello Sport, the paper has given ratings to each of the players and the head coach Sergio Conceicao, who was awarded a six out of 10, whilst the overall performance was dubbed a 6.5.

Christian Pulisic stands out as the best performer with a 7.5 after his late brace, whilst Matteo Gabbia, whose agent recently criticised the Rossoneri for their management of his employer, scored a 5 – certainly not a good time for that gam, whilst Malick Thiaw was also given a five.

Marco Sportiello, Warren Bondo, Alex Jimenez, Yunus Musah and Santiago Gimenez did not do much better, each earning a score of 5.5 from the game, whilst Joao Felix and Kyle Walker both earned sixes.

Theo Hernandez, Tijjani Reijnders – even after his mistake, and Tammy Abraham scored 6.5s, whilst Rafael Leao followed behind Pulisic and was given a score of 7 after coming on at half-time.

Corriere dello Sport did not agree with Gazzetta though, instead giving Thiaw the worst rating of the game with a five, though Jimenez also was scored a 5 – Gabbia was instead given 5.5, not really a shoutable margin.

Pulisic’s score was elevated to an eight, with him being named as the best player, not just for the Diavolo, but in the game as a whole.

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