Christian Pulisic is, so far, the most prolific player in Serie A this early season, and he illustrated that further with a brilliant assist and later a goal in a title-tilt with holders Napoli on Sunday.<\/p>\n
All this after boss Max Allegri said before the game that the USMNT star was \u201cwasn\u2019t in great shape, but he was alright in this morning\u2019s warm-up, so he will start.”<\/p>\n
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MORE \u2014 Serie A table, leading scorers<\/a> | USMNT upcoming schedule<\/a><\/p>\n Pulisic flew out of the gates with third-minute brilliance at the San Siro, flicking the ball on a turn past Giovanni Di Lorenzo in his own half.<\/p>\n The USMNT star then knew he’d have the beating of the 32-year-old Napoli veteran and tore down the left flank in a lung-busting run to touch into the box despite the best efforts of a sliding Di Lorenzo.<\/p>\n Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret had to respect Pulisic’s chance to shoot near post, and the American knew he had a lane to slide a pass through the box. That’s where Alexis Saelemaekers was to put Milan ahead 1-0.<\/p>\n Christian Pulisic adds goal for AC Milan versus Napoli (video)<\/p>\n Pulisic turned 27 this month but shows no signs of slowing down. He entered the week tied atop the Serie A goals leaderboard with Inter Milan’s Marcus Thuram.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Then he passed him in the 31st minute to double Milan’s home lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Pulisic is, so far, the most prolific player in Serie A this early season, and he illustrated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4894,110124,110123,56978,110121,4895,110125,110122,658,33509,34640,403,99,90221],"class_list":["post-188274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ac-milan","tag-alex-meret","tag-alexis-saelemaekers","tag-christian-pulisic","tag-giovanni-di-lorenzo","tag-inter-milan","tag-marcus-thuram","tag-max-allegri","tag-milan","tag-napoli","tag-serie-a","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-usmnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}