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Pulisic’s early goal and 10th in the Italian league
surpassed his previous best of nine in the 2019-20 English Premier League for
Chelsea. The winger also has three goals in Europe and had already bettered his
overall scoring record.
Olivier Giroud and Rafael Leão also scored against Lecce,
which played the entire second half with 10 men after forward Nikola Krstović
was sent off.
Milan could even afford to ring the changes in the second
half with Thursday’s Europa League quarterfinal against Roma in mind. Roma was
playing Lazio in the capital derby later Saturday.
Second-placed Milan trimmed the gap to runaway Serie A
leader Inter Milan to 11 points ahead of the Nerazzurri’s match at Udinese on
Monday.
Lecce remained four points above the drop zone.
On a warm and sunny day at San Siro, Samuel Chukwueze did
well to cut inside from the right and beat two defenders before finding Pulisic
on the edge of the area. The American controlled the ball and unleashed an
unstoppable left-footed strike.
That was with less than six minutes on the clock. Pulisic
almost doubled his tally immediately but Lecce goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone
parried the header from point-blank range.
Milan got the second in the 20th when Yacine Adli
whipped in a corner from the left and Giroud headed it in at the near post.
Lecce almost pulled one back but Joan González’s header came
off the crossbar and the visitors’ chances diminished on the stroke of halftime
when Krstović was shown a straight red card for a high tackle on Chukwueze.
Milan sealed the match in the 57th after Leão
raced onto a Théo Hernandez throughball and fired it into the bottom right
corner.
Hernandez also hit the crossbar seven minutes later, after
Milan coach Stefano Pioli took off Pulisic, Giroud and Matteo Gabbia in a
triple substitution. AP
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