Christian Pulisic continued his sensational start to the season on Tuesday, scoring straight from a corner in AC Milan’s 3-1 UEFA Champions League victory against Belgian side Club Brugge.

The American star opened the scoring in the 34th minute at San Siro, sending in an inswinging corner from the left that deceived the goalkeeper and defenders and somehow missed everyone before bouncing into the net past the desperate attempt to cross the goal line. reaches.

The effort was the first “Olimpico” goal of Pulisic’s career and took him to 10 goals in his past 10 appearances for club and country. It was also the 26-year-old’s second goal in three Champions League games this season, having scored in Milan’s opening defeat to Liverpool last month.

In Serie A, Pulisic scored five goals and three assists in eight games this season. He also registered an assist in Mauricio Pochettino’s first match in charge of the USMNT against Panama earlier this month.

Belgian side Brugge had to play most of Tuesday’s match with 10 men after Raphael Onyedika was sent off in the 40th minute, but leveled the score with a goal from Kyriani Sabbe in the 51st.

Tijjani Reijnders later scored twice to give Milan a much-needed first win in this season’s Champions League after also losing to Bayer Leverkusen.

Sixteen-year-old Francesco Camarda was brought on in the 75th minute, becoming the youngest Italian debutant in the Champions League. He briefly thought he had also broken the record for youngest Champions League scorer, but his header was ruled offside and ended the joyous celebrations.

Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.