Tuttosport: Why Torino’s complaints about Pulisic’s winner are wide of the mark

Torino had some interesting complaints after they lost to AC Milan on Monday night regarding how the third goal was scored.

As Tuttosport (via MilanPress) recall this morning, Torino coach Marco Baroni and president Urbano Cairo complained about the fact that Milan scored the goal to make it 3-2 while they were a man down on the field, making it 10v11.

They believe that the game was restarted too quickly, but the paper have debunked this notion. Christian Pulisic’s winner – his second goal of the night – came after Torino took a full 2 ​​minutes and 25 seconds to replace the injured Adrien Tameze.

Secondly, it was the Granata goalkeeper Israel who restarted play after 2 minutes and 25 seconds, taking the free-kick, not Milan. At that point, the Rossoneri players continued to play as their opponents had done, so certainly nothing unfair.

After the game, Baroni spoke to DAZN and he was asked for his observations on what led up to the final and decisive goal.

“After Tameze came off, Milan quickly got back into the game, the ball didn’t go out. These are situations that penalise you, but they always happen in these cases. We need to be more careful. But I repeat: I have great faith in the team, and we need to focus on the positives.”