Rafael Leao raises Milan to the co-leadership of Serie A

The Naples from Luciano Spalletti, who until this Sunday counted his league duels for victories, he left his first two points of the course in Roma by drawing goalless against the team led by Jose Mourinho. A result that, together with the victory (2-4) of the Milan on Bologna, makes Neapolitans and ‘Rossoneri’ equal 25 points in front of the table of the A league.

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Despite the innumerable and very important casualties with which he had Stefano Pioli, the Milan He chained his fifth consecutive victory in domestic competition at the Renato Dell’Ara, where this season he has eight victories and a draw, the one achieved on the fourth day against the Juventus (1-1), and still does not know defeat.

Second top scorer

In addition, the seven-time European champion is the second least thrashed team in the championship, having conceded nine goals in nine games, and the second highest scorer, with 22 goals in favor, only surpassed by one. Inter that takes 24. Much of the blame for the good offensive performance of this Milan the portuguese has it Rafael Leao, that this season seems to have taken the definitive step to become a big star.

The ex of Little, which once sounded like a possible reinforcement of Atlético de Madrid, landed in Italy in the summer of 2019 with Marco Giampaolo on the bench at San Siro. Already with Pioli, Leao he alternated starts with substitutions in his first year in Milan, becoming practically unchallenged last season at just 21 years old.

Debut with the absolute

Although it was at this start of the course when the winger formed in the always prolific quarry of the Sporting of Portugal seems to have exploded, reaching absolute internationality with Portugal, with which he is the European Under-17 champion. Faced with the indisposition of Rafa Silva and the Nasrid Domingos Duarte, Fernando Santos I call José Fonte, the former Barça player Threesome and Leao, which on October 9 debuted with assistance in a friendly against Qatar (3-0) and played 17 ‘in the subsequent qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup that played the selection of the’ quinas’ against Luxembourg.

Five goals, three from his best scoring record

With four goals in nine rounds of A league and one in Champions League, Almada’s is only two away from his best scoring record as a ‘rossonero’ and three from his best year, when he scored eight goals with the Little French. Some numbers that, together with his usual impudence on the field of play, if he maintains should lead him to be a fixed for Santos in the selection and key in a Milan who, after falling from the title fight in the middle of last season, wants to fight again for a ‘Scudetto’ that he has not raised since 2011.