Santiago Giminez reveals truth about poor form this campaign.

So far this season AC Milan has been a well oiled unit as the side looks to challenge for the scudetto. There new coach Max Allegri has given a much needed identity this season. There title chances are boosted by the fact that they aren’t competing in European competitions this year due to last years poor season.

AC Milan still have two main problems in the team, injuries and strikers. Currently, Milan have Adrien Rabiot and Christian Pulisic on the injury list. Pervis Estupinan, Ardon Jashari and Rafael Leao have all spent time on the injury list this season despite being only 10 match days in. Milan have also had issue looking for a striker over the last two seasons.

These issues started when Zlatan Ibrahimovic retired at the end of the 2022/23 season. This left only Oliver Giroud as a striker for Milan who was exceptional in form, but age was wearing him down. This lead to Giroud being sold to LA Galaxy at the end of the 2023/24 season. Ever since Milan has struggled to find a star striker.

The latest striker that was meant to solve Milan problem was Santiago Giminez. He was signed from Feyenoord in the winter transfer window last season. He scored 16 goals in only 19 games before making his move to Milan, ever since his form has slumped. For, Milan this season he has failed to register a single league goal or assist.

However, the Gazzetta Dello Sport has reported that he has shared the reason for his poor form via his instagram story. Giminez said “For several months I’ve been playing with an ankle injury that hasn’t allowed me to be 100% fit or comfortable on the pitch. With a great desire to continue helping the team, I continued playing, but the pain worsened, and the time came to stop. Now I have to recover and prepare to return as soon as possible”

In recent games he was forced off the pitch in the 62nd minute against Atlanta with the ankle injury and then had to miss, Milan’s next league game against AS Roma. If this injury is worse than initially thought, he will miss this weekends game against Parma as well, and some of the international break.

But does it explain his poor form? Maybe, playing through injuries is always hard on players for sure. But if it was serious to the point where Giminez would be playing detremetnailly to Milan, they wouldve benched him to recover, so it is a two sided coin, we will only know the truth on Giminez when he returns.