GdS: What Allegri said and did after Pulisic’s missed penalty against Juventus

AC Milan’s rotten record when it comes to penalties continued on Sunday night as Christian Pulisic failed to convert from the spot against Juventus.

After being instrumental in virtually every match Milan have played so far this season, Pulisic was decisive in a negative way this time. The American missed a penalty last night against Juventus, thus depriving the Rossoneri of not only the three points, but also the chance to return to being top.

Allegri couldn’t look

As La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) reports this morning, Massimiliano Allegri preferred not to watch the American’s penalty and remained with his back turned. Hearing the jubilation of the Juventus fans, the coach immediately turned to his assistant Landucci.

He asked him: “He shot with a flat foot? What? I told him not to do that.” Allegri then immediately applauded the former Chelsea player and even hugged him when he was substituted for Christopher Nkunku a few minutes later.

It is Pulisic’s second penalty missed in a Rossoneri shirt, and the interesting thing is that he also missed the first in Turin, a city that evidently doesn’t suit him very well in this regard (last season against Torino, Vanja Milinkovic-Savic saved).

At Milan, penalty kicks continue to be a problem, as evidenced by this truly shocking statistic: since the start of 2024, the Rossoneri have missed seven of their 13 penalties in Serie A (54%). This is a record among the top five European leagues in the period.

Another very negative number: five misses in the last seven penalties taken in the league. Despite what happened yesterday, however, Milan’s penalty taker will still be Pulisic, as Allegri assured after the match: “Pulisic is the penalty taker, a missed penalty doesn’t change things.”