CM: Leadership, sacrifice but a lack of goals – Morata’s paradoxical start at Milan | OneFootball

Alvaro Morata has made a substantial impact at AC Milan already, and yet there are concerns about whether enough goals will come from him this season.

Calciomercato.com write how Morata is showing himself to be a leader on and off the pitch in his first few weeks and months at the club, one of the few players who has truly understood what it means to play for Milan, despite having just arrived.

His charisma and experience is beyond discussion, after all you don’t become the captain of the European champions Spain by chance, nor do you end up at top clubs like Real Madrid, Chelsea and Atletico Madrid without having an elite mentality, and of course ability.

Morata only needed a few training sessions with the Rossoneri to understand what is missing at the moment and probably hasn’t been seen since the Scudetto win. His words after the 2-2 draw with Torino – a game in which he made his debut off the bench and scored – were striking.

“We need to take a step further mentally. We need to work hard, work, make more fouls, become a tougher team,” he said. In a way he said what we all know: Milan have a relatively young squad which is demonstrating that it does not have any real leaders within it.

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From Mike Maignan to Theo Hernandez, Rafael Leao to Fikayo Tomori – no one has managed to take the decisive step to become a guide who shows the way to the rest of the team and does so consistently, and in the biggest games.

Morata helps this because he can be that player with his experience of winning and his leadership. Paradoxically, however, Morata has not yet managed to become Olivier Giroud’s heir in terms of goals, given he has so far scored twice in seven appearances (vs. Torino and Lecce).

His current average is one goal every 196 minutes, practically a goal every two games, too little for the one who should be the team’s top scorer, even though Tammy Abraham has played plenty too. After the break, Morata hopes to take off and become a leader with match-winning goals too.