Watch: Dazzling Deulofeu boosts Milan's Euro hopes
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It's only fitting that Gerard Deulofeu scored his first AC Milan goal Sunday against fellow continental competition chaser Fiorentina, with a club desperate for European football lifted by a player determined to salvage an erratic career.
Surplus to requirements at Everton, the once-prodigious 22-year-old Barcelona product's highly touted rise stalled through mercurial results on Merseyside.
The Rossoneri entered the interval up 2-1 partly thanks to Deulofeu's marker.
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