{"id":45152,"date":"2025-10-06T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pulisic-misses-penalty-halts-milans-streak-against-juventus-in-serie-a\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:44:00","slug":"pulisic-misses-penalty-halts-milans-streak-against-juventus-in-serie-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/pulisic-misses-penalty-halts-milans-streak-against-juventus-in-serie-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulisic misses penalty, halts Milan&#8217;s streak against Juventus in Serie A"},"content":{"rendered":"Christian Pulisic, a key figure for AC Milan, had a bittersweet Sunday in Serie A.\n\nA penalty missed by the American proved crucial, as Milan drew 0-0 against Juventus, ending a streak of five consecutive victories.\n\nPulisic, captain of the United States national team, leads Milan with six goals and two assists this season. However, his penalty attempt in the second half went over the crossbar.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Pulisic missed the penalty, but he played an extraordinary game. He has always been the penalty taker. He is not changed because of a mistake.<\/p><cite>Massimiliano Allegri, coach of Milan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThis was only the second time in Pulisic&#8217;s professional career that he missed a penalty. His current record is 13 converted and two missed between clubs and national team.\n\nMilan dropped from first to third place, remaining two points behind Napoli and Roma, who won their respective matches.\n\nNapoli came back to beat Genoa 2-1, while Roma also achieved a 2-1 victory against Fiorentina.\n\nJuventus remained one point behind, in fifth place, before the international break.\n\nWeston McKennie, Pulisic&#8217;s teammate in the United States national team, wasted some opportunities for Juventus.\n\nThere were few clear chances for both teams in a match where Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri returned to face the club he managed in two different spells, winning five Italian league titles.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1005%2Fr1556167_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El estadounidense Christian Pulisic fall\u00f3 un penalti crucial en el empate 0-0 del AC Milan contra la Juventus en Tur\u00edn. Fabio Ferrari\/LaPresse v\u00eda AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nAllegri was fired by Juventus after an incident in the 2024 Italian Cup final.\n\nThe penalty was awarded when Santiago Gimenez was brought down by Lloyd Kelly.\n\nMilan was close to winning in the 90th minute with a pass from Luka Modric to Rafael Le\u00e3o, but the Portuguese winger&#8217;s shot was stopped by Juventus goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio.\n\nPreviously, Le\u00e3o attempted a shot from the center of the field, but the ball did not find the goal.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Pulisic, a key figure for AC Milan, had a bittersweet Sunday in Serie A. A penalty missed by the American proved crucial, as Milan drew 0-0 against Juventus, ending a streak of five consecutive victories. Pulisic, captain of the United States national team, leads Milan with six goals and two assists this season. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3114,4049,4088,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-45152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-ac-milan","8":"tag-juventus","9":"tag-pulisic","10":"tag-serie-a"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}