AC Milan extends unbeaten start to Serie A
AC Milan provided the perfect response to its Europa League defeat to Bournemouth by beating Udinese 2-0 on Monday.
Milan remains within four points of leaders Inter after eight games of its season, as iut delivered the perfect response to its Europa League thrashing by Bournemouth.
Pulisic capitalised on some woeful Udinese defending early on, with Hutchinson tucking home his first goal since joining Milan on loan to seal all three points after the break.
The Rossoneri needed just six minutes to get ahead after some quick thinking from Luka Modric, whose free-kick caught the Udinese defence napping, with Pulisic plucking the ball out the sky before finishing coolly beyond Maduka Okoye.
Davide Bartesaghi should have doubled Milan's lead five minutes later after he was slipped in by Pulisic, but as he closed in on goal, he lashed his left-footed effort over the bar.
Bartesaghi and Pulisic then somehow failed to turn Fikayo Tomori's cross home, with some last-ditch defending from James Abankwah then denying Strahinja Pavlovic a shot at goal just before the break.
Milan upped the pressure on the hour mark, with Pulisic thwarted at the near post by Okoye, with Goncalo Ramos then curling over from outside the area moments later.
But the visitor's dominance was rewarded in the 65th minute through Hutchinson. Ardon Jashari's strike was only parried into the path of the on-loan attacker, who was the quickest to react.
A wonderful piece of goalkeeping denied Milan a third soon after. Pulisic's goal-bound effort deflected off Christian Kabasele and into the path of Ramos, but his first-time shot was superbly tipped onto the crossbar by Okoye.
Mike Maignan, sent off in midweek against Bournemouth, preserved his clean sheet late on after thwarting Keinan Davis from point-blank range, as Milan comfortably held on.
