Vecino and De Vrij after D’Ambrosio and Handanovic. The Ats suspends the activity of the Protocol overridden and the League forced to postpone it. Championship hanging by a thread
MILANO
The final of the Serie A championship hangs by a thin thread entrusted to the fate and common sense of the managers. After two other cases of Covid in the Inter squad – Matias Vecino and Stefan De Vrij, in addition to Danilo D’Ambrosio and Samir Handanovic – the Milan Ats has decided to suspend the activity of the Nerazzurri team for 4 days and ban the match against Sassuolo tomorrow night at San Siro.
It is the umpteenth consequence of the sentence of the Coni Guarantee College which overturned the 3-0 at table in favor of Juve against Napoli, ordering the repetition of the match. From that moment on, we have been navigating on sight with the Serie A protocol constantly bypassed by the interventions of local health authorities. It had already happened with that of Turin on the occasion of the outbreak that broke out among the grenade players, which led to the postponement of the match with Sassuolo and the opening of the usual judicial process for the meeting with Lazio, left on the calendar by the League without causing the 3-0 at the table of the sports judge.
It is a tangle where relations between clubs also weigh. Between Lotito and Cairo, who can’t stand each other, the matter ended without an agreement. The friendship between Marotta and the CEO of Sassuolo, Carnevali, has favored a solution without tears. The League considers these postponements as the equivalent of the only wild card provided for by the protocol.
But now the sporting regulations simply depend on the evolution of the pandemic. In October, Inter continued to play with six positives. Now he has to stop with four. The Ats are more rigid – yesterday Pordenone-Pisa in Serie B was also postponed – because the English variant is much more contagious. The fear is that between today and tomorrow the cases in the Nerazzurri group will increase, it is better to move in advance. Today we will know the results of yesterday’s round of pads in Appiano Gentile.
There is also an international front linked to the prohibition of the Ats to respond to calls for the national team. Some foreign Federations involved made themselves heard: Croatia, Denmark and Slovakia do not intend to give up Brozovic, Perisic, Eriksen and Skriniar. We must wait until Monday when the ATS will return to pronounce itself at the end of the 4-day suspension. The same goes for the Italians Barella and Bastoni. At the moment it seems that the health authority will not authorize departures. For now, the Serie A League has postponed the match against Sassuolo to a later date, without setting the recovery to 7 April, assumed in the early afternoon. Better to wait for the evolution of the Pinetina infection. At the end of the championship there are just over two months to go. So they will be very long. –