Corriere dello Sport examines the reasons why Inter missed their Brazilian midfielder so badly in the game game against Cagliari. The newspaper suggests that without Hernanes the team is back to the one that ran out of ideas so badly from mid-November until late January. This is a team that had won just once in ten match days prior to Hernanes’ arrival, although the absence of one player can’t entirely explain the result it didn’t help. In particular the delivery from set pieces was poor, couple this with the dribbling ability the ex Lazio man possesses and we begin to see the problems his absence caused.
Guarin and Alvarez couldn’t start the attacks effectively and the fluidity in midfield that a player with Hernanes qualities provides was sorely missed. Despite this Inter didn’t attack with the intensity required against a team that had lost five of it’s last six away games. The security with which the team had played in its two previous games was lacking and Inter from the start looked disorientated. All this combined to show how big the loss of Hernanes was to Walter Mazzarri’s side.
Source: Corriere dello Sport
