Three away defeats all with three goals conceded, the fifth worst defense in the league and a feeling of difficulty that goes from the pitch to the bench.
Inter comes to the break for the national teams with more doubts than certainties, starting with Simone Inzaghi.
The coach's choices in the knockout against Udinese continue to cause discussion, also because the Nerazzurri have never appeared fragile and in trouble as in Friuli, sunk by the greater freshness and clarity of Sottil's men.
The position of Inzaghi, thus, returns to be in the balance: against Roma after the break he will be on the bench, but the company will closely monitor the situation, in the hope of seeing a recovery before the new stop in November for the World Cup.
However, if Inter continued to see a flat encephalogram, the exemption would be practically inevitable, also in order not to risk remaining out of the top four in the standings, a placement that is worth the fundamental qualification in the Champions League for a club that considers those revenues necessary to stay high.
Many issues at the center of criticism: not only a defensive phase that continues to make water on all sides, but also the revisable management of replacements.
In Udine, among other things, the two aspects crossed: Inzaghi in fact alternated four different trio in defense during the 90 ', starting with the trio Skriniar, Acerbi and Bastoni to finish with D'Ambrosio, De Vrij and Skriniar.
And perhaps it is no coincidence that the negative protagonist was De Vrij, who entered 10 'from the end for a positive Acerbi and the author of two errors in a row that led to the Friulian advantage (corner given and failure to mark on Bijol).
A chaos also generated by Inzaghi's search for a solution to a defensive phase that simply does not work.
A problem that Inter has been carrying around since the first summer friendlies, without the coach being able to identify the causes or even a possible solution.
And the ideas of the coach (the weight of the warnings on the management of the changes, with the apotheosis of the double substitution of Bastoni and Mkhitaryan at 28 'pt in Udine, as the exaggerated turnover in the first month and a half of the season) are not helping certainly the team to find solidity.
The break for the Nations League thus comes perhaps at the right time, because it allows the coach and management to reason and reflect with the bowls stopped.
It will not help that Inzaghi will only be able to coach six players from the first team, but the certainty is that it will be necessary to put a firm point in order to avoid further collapses.
Also because the Curva Nord also begins to send ultimatums: "Tolerance is over; the coach has certainly made mistakes but no excuses for the players who, since the world and the world, wallow in these situations putting their ego before the group. . And this is not good for us. When we return from the national teams, the register changes. Everyone must face up to his responsibilities ", wrote the Nerazzurri supporters on their Facebook profile.
