Away from the potential FA Cup ‘banana skin’ which, successfully avoided saw Nuno take a big relief filled sigh before attending to his post game media duties, one on-loan former West Ham man was having a pretty torrid post – game debrief himself.
Former striker Niclas Fullkrug – according to all reports – endured the ‘game to forget’ for his new side Milan.
The 33 year old veteran striker came on as a substitute in his side’s fixture against one-from-bottom side Pisa, but suffered something of a horror show according to sempremilan.com:
“Niclas Fullkrug certainly had a game to forget, given he came on as a substitute and was also subbed off in the same game. Then, there is the elephant in the room, his penalty miss. Of course, it happens, but the striker certainly felt bad afterwards, taking to social media to apologise.
“Definitely had better days and very relieved the penalty didn’t turn out decisive – grazie team” [Said Fullkrug]
It seems there is little comfort for Fullkrug who has now endured broken bones and missed penalties and just the one goal in his brief eight- game Milan career.
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The West Ham hierarchy will be keeping everything crossed that the German does start to hit the back of the net more regularly or else there’s every likelihood that ‘Fülle’ will be ‘boomeranging’ back to London Stadium come the end of the season-long loan.
Many more ‘games to forget’ and West Ham’s board can forget any idea of Milan taking up the option to purchase Fullkrug at the end of the season. Quite how he’d fit back in to Nuno’s side – or heaven forbid a championship attack- is anybody’s guess.