Christian Pulisic couldn’t save AC Milan’s Champions league hopes, but Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie had a happier season ending — while Auston Trusty secured more silverware for Celtic.Welcome to this week’s USMNT Player Tracker.Pulisic and Milan miss out on Champions League againNot with a bang but a whimper. That was how AC Milan’s season concluded, and although Christian Pulisic tried his best from the bench to change that, it also sums-up the end to what started as a highly promising campaign for him.He was on the bench. Again. For the last three Serie A fixtures of the season he has been available, as AC Milan have fought to make the Champions League next term, the 27-year-old American forward has been among the substitutes.Pulisic got 31 minutes against Sassuolo, missed the defeat by Atalanta with a glute muscle strain, played 14 minutes against Genoa (enough to register an assist) and in a game the Rossoneri needed to win to clinch fourth place, he came on at 46 minutes for the second half.Ultimately, Milan could not hang on to a second-minute lead through Alexis Saelemaekers’ goal, and Cagliari came back at the San Siro to win 2-1.Pulisic battled gamely to make the difference. He had the joint-most touches (seven) in the opposition box, and completed the joint-most dribbles (three), according to Opta.Christian Pulisic was dynamic and direct when he came off the bench against Cagliari (Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)But with none of the strikers around him firing, and Pulisic equally unable to find a way through, Milan did not test the visitors enough. With Como winning their final game it meant Pulisic & co. dropped into fifth place and missed out on Champions League qualification for a second consecutive season.Clubs the size of Milan, and players of Pulisic’s ability, should be in Europe’s top competition but the table never lies, and neither does the personal tally table that says Pulisic started the season on fire with 10 goals in all competitions, then plummeted dramatically at the turn of the year. In terms of numbers, he did not score in the second half of the season and managed two assists to take his creative haul for the campaign to four.
USMNT Tracker: Tyler Adams signs off on high but Christian Pulisic misses out on Champions League
With the World Cup approaching, Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie are in good form, but Christian Pulisic's minutes continued to be limited











