The defender remained in Milan after a summer of back and forth, but his contractual situation is still to be defined and his physical form is not enviable: in a team in obvious difficulty, the Slovakian’s hardships are particularly noisy.
Sunday’s own goal is a starting point, not a case study. But above Milan Skriniar a Fantozzian cloud hovers since the season began, a sort of shaken cocktail made up of unenviable physical shape and bad luck, with a latent serenity as a final addition that gives the bitter taste to this start of the season. If the delicate match of contract renewal will be played in the offices, it is on the pitch that Simone Inzaghi’s Inter need their pillar, the player who prompted the coach and management to forcefully ask Steven Zhang to give up the French millions.