Milan has no impact: few decisive goals from the substitutes

After Pobega, darkness. The Rossoneri wizard was the last player to take over to bring points to Milan. No one has followed him since then, and ten games have gone by. Origi’s goal at Sassuolo only counts for statistics, useless for the result, five neroverdi slaps at San Siro, so Tommy’s goal was the last to count for anything in terms of points.

Few goals

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Pioli needs goals from the bench. Goals that do not arrive and that are in hiding, sinking the Rossoneri. One of the causes of the crisis, perhaps. Milan only scored four goals with substitute players. Besides Pobega and Origi there are also Rebic against Empoli, Giroud at home with Spezia and Leao with Monza, again at San Siro. Question: how many of them were decisive? Oliver yes, in Milan’s 2-1 draw with the Ligurians, as did Pobega in the draw with Roma (even if the Giallorossi achieved a comeback in the last few minutes). Finally Rebic did well in Empoli, author of the provisional 1-0. Leao, on the other hand, entered at 3-1, dropping poker at the end of the game. We can count five points.

Compare

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Excluding Juve, all the teams fighting for a place in the Champions League have done better than Milan. Napoli leads the standings with 12 goals from the bench, followed by Fiorentina (11) and Udinese (8). Inter also did well (7), arm in arm with Cremonese (7). Atalanta, Sassuolo, Rome and Lazio are at 6. Salernitana, Empoli and Milan stop at 5. Behind them are Juve and Monza with 4. Then Bologna and Lecce with 3, Sampdoria and Turin with 2 and finally Spezia and Verona with just one goal. On Saturday, against Udinese, Pioli sent Origi, Rebic and De Ketelaere onto the field, but the most dangerous man was Krunic, a midfielder. The Belgian playmaker tried to punch, but when he came off the bench he never scored. Not even once. And not just him.