AC Milan's weakness last season was the lack of the right substitutes on the bench. This season, though, Pioli has more capable and reliable choices at his disposal.
Today's La Gazzetta dello Sport compares the numbers at the sixth matchday of Serie A and the difference is abysmal: 2,058 minutes on the field for the new arrivals in the summer of 2023, only 562 minutes for the new arrivals in the summer of 2022. Even in terms of goals, there's no comparison: 4 goals this year (2 from Pulisic, 1 from Okafor, and 1 from Loftus-Cheek) against zero from a year ago.
This year, nine out of ten reinforcements have been used up to this moment, while last year there were five out of seven.
