Rafael Leão hears harsh truths: ex-Sporting star struggles at Milan | OneFootball

Rafael Leão returned to the field in the Milan - Napoli match, after more than a month of absence due to injury. The forward, trained at Sporting, entered the game at the 69th minute, but Massimo Ambrosini believes he added little or nothing to the match, putting his place in the starting eleven at risk.

"Milan was in great difficulty and it's not like he had a big impact. He was there", said the former Rossoneri midfielder, in statements to DAZN, ensuring that the former Sporting player did not show much against the current Italian champion.

For Ambrosini, Leão will hardly have a place in Allegri's starting eleven: "Now, the real question is how to integrate him from now on. Pulisic plays. Leão had two training sessions, it wouldn't surprise me if at Juventus Stadium he waits a bit longer".

"But the question remains open. It's necessary to see how Leão will adapt to this game system, which is now a certainty for Milan", assured Ambrosini, believing it possible that the player trained at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy might lose his starting position this season.

Rafael Leão made his debut in the main team of Sporting in the 2017/18 season, by decision of Jorge Jesus. In that game, the now Portuguese international scored a goal in the Classic against Porto, at Estádio do Dragão. His stay at the Alvalade Club did not end in the best way, as in the summer of 2018, he ended up unilaterally terminating with the green and whites, signing for Lille on a free transfer after the attack on the Academy.

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