For the first time this season, after yesterday evening’s damaging 2-0 defeat against Sassuolo Inter appear to be in crisis mode.

This according to today’s print edition of Rome-based newspaper Corriere dello Sport, who argue that the team are no longer within the limits of normal bad form given the massive blow of the loss coming after several other insufficient results.

Inter have suffered a handful of disappointing results over the first half of the season, but in each instance they quickly responded by winning and reasserting themselves in their next matches.

Their loss to the Neroverdi, on the other hand, came in a match where they were meant to put their five points dropped against AC Milan and Napoli and their frustrating Champions League loss to Liverpool midweek behind them and go top of the table.

Instead, the Nerazzurri risk falling to third in the table should Napoli win their clash with Cagliari this evening.

Inter have not won a match in Serie A since January 22, taking just five points from five matches and just one from their last three, and the moment of form can no longer be regarded as just a bump in the road but appears to be a real slump from which they much recover quickly.