A last-gasp goal in extra-time gave Inter victory over Juve to vindicate a player who feels he has been underused so far
The temperature was below freezing but Alexis Sánchez kept shedding layers: first his match jersey and then his thermals, until he stood bare-chested under the Curva. It was as though he wanted everyone at San Siro to see him, to know he was still here, still in peak physical condition, still, as he described himself in a post-game interview, “a monster”.
He had delivered the evidence that Internazionale supporters really wanted moments before, when he muscled past Daniele Rugani on the edge of the
Juventus six-yard box and swept the ball into the bottom corner of their goal. It was the deciding act of this year’s Supercoppa, putting his team 2-1 up in the 121st minute.