Milan secured their first points in the Champions League this season with a 3-1 home win over Club Brugge on Tuesday as Christian Pulisic scored direct from a corner. The seven-time European champions had been one of eight sides winless after two games, having lost 1-0 at Bayer Leverkusen earlier this month and 3-1 at home to Liverpool in the competition opener. Christian Pulisic put Milan ahead in the 34th minute, before the Belgian champions were reduced to 10 men in the 40th when midfielder Raphael Onyedika was sent off for a foul on Tijjani Reijnders following a lengthy VAR check. Kyriani Sabbe levelled for last season’s Conference League semi-finalists Brugge after the break with a low strike into the far corner. Reijnders restored the lead for the hosts in the 61st minute with a simple first-time finish from near the penalty spot, before sealing the win with a similar effort 10 minutes later. It was a shaky start for Milan against a Brugge side who started off aggressively and had two goal attempts inside three minutes, and goalkeeper Mike Maignan was put to work early to block Christos Tzolis’s strike from inside the box. Tzolis continued causing problems for the hosts and he had another brilliant chance five minutes later, with Maignan once more forced into action before Joel Ordonez hit the bar from distance. But Milan grew into the game and Brugge keeper Simon Mignolet pulled off a great save to deny Pulisic in Milan’s first attempt on target, before the half-hour mark. He was, however, helpless minutes later when the US midfielder sent a curled corner into the net. Pulisic remains Milan’s top scorer this season, with five goals in Serie A and two in the Champions League. A depleted Brugge hit back after the break and equalised through half-time substitute Sabbe, who was set up by fellow substitute Hugo Vetlesen. But the hosts profited from their numerical advantage and Reijnders put them back up after the hour mark, netting a neat back pass from Noah Okafor before Samuel Chukwueze teed him up with another sharp pass. Milan’s 16-year-old striker Francesco Camarda thought he had become the youngest Champions League goalscorer in history. The teenager threw off his shirt in celebration as he wheeled away after heading in a Reijnders cross after coming on as a 75th-minute substitute. Camarda’s mother and his girlfriend were shown in the stands wiping away their tears. However, the goal was then ruled out for offside and Camarda was also shown a yellow card for taking his shirt off. Camarda would have become the youngest Champions League scorer at 16 years and 226 days. The record is held by Ansu Fati, who was 17 years and 40 days when he netted for Barcelona against Inter Milan in 2019. “It was emotional, I think the best feeling of my life but then the VAR played a trick on me,” Camarda said after the match. “I’m really disappointed but these are things that happen, especially in modern day soccer.” Camarda, who is considered one of Italy’s brightest prospects, holds the record for the youngest player in Serie A history, set when he played against Fiorentina last season aged just 15. He had played only one other match for Milan, also last season.