Inter midfielder Nicolo Barella started off in the most impressive fashion with a perfectly-taken free kick against Udinese yesterday afternoon, but everything from him after was hardly a vintage performance.
This is the view in the player ratings for the match across Italian media, as highlighted by L’Interista, with the 25-year-old’s score dragged up by the quality of his strike in the fifth minute but still far from stellar.
Barella will have thought he had gotten his team off to the perfect start when he stepped up to take a free kick in the opening stages at the Dacia Arena, and there’s no doubting that it was about as good as a direct free kick can be, finding the top corner where no goalkeeper in the world could expect to get to it.
Afterwards, however, the 25-year-old was as culpable as any of his teammates as the Nerazzurri were overrun in midfield, with the Corriere dello Sport, Tuttosport, and TuttoMercatoWeb giving him a 6/10 grade whilst the Gazzetta dello Sport and L’Interista reached 6.5/10.