{"id":30732,"date":"2025-12-09T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30732"},"modified":"2025-12-09T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:04:17","slug":"pulisic-quick-fire-double-sends-ac-milan-top-of-serie-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30732","title":{"rendered":"Pulisic quick-fire double sends AC Milan top of Serie A"},"content":{"rendered":"
USA playmaker Christian Pulisic scored twice in 10 minutes on Monday as AC Milan came from behind to edge Torino 3-2 to move to the summit of Serie A.<\/p>\n

Pulisic was a second-half substitute in Turin and turned the game on its head having entered the fray after 67 minutes.<\/p>\n

Milan go above Napoli on goal difference and head to eighth-placed Sassuolo next Sunday.<\/p>\n

Nikola Vlasic and Duvan Zapata had claimed an early advantage for the home side, who are now 16th looking for a first win since October 26.<\/p>\n

Pulisic, 27, was named on the bench after suffering from flu symptoms, with Milan boss Max Allegri sitting out a touchline ban.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been ill for the last few days, but I’m feeling a bit better today,” Pulisic told DAZN.<\/p>\n

“The most important thing isn’t my goals, it’s that we won the match.”<\/p>\n

The hosts raced to an early lead as Vlasic converted from the penalty spot and Zapata made it 2-0 after 17 minutes.<\/p>\n

Seven minutes later Rabiot halved the deficit with a sublime effort from more than 25 metres out.<\/p>\n

With 34 minutes to play Milan’s Ruben Loftus-Cheek had a superb chance to equalise but Torino goalkeeper Franco Israel stopped the Englishman’s impressive head.<\/p>\n

Pulisic then entered the fray and made an immediate impact netting with his first touch from short range.<\/p>\n

The 82-time international completed the comeback with 13 minutes left with a superb low half-volley.<\/p>\n

During injury-time Pulisic was denied his hat-trick, and his eighth goal of the campaign but Christopher Nkunku was judged to be offside.<\/p>\n

It was enough to send AC Milan to the top of the table although those early defence errors are a cause for concern.<\/p>\n

“You can’t start a match by conceding two goals so easily, we’ll have to watch the video carefully and keep working,” said Rabiot.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USA playmaker Christian Pulisic scored twice in 10 minutes on Monday as AC Milan came from behind to edge Torino 3-2 to move to the summit of Serie A. Pulisic was a second-half substitute in Turin and turned the game on its head having entered the fray after 67 minutes. Milan go above Napoli on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}