The three passing geniuses Marchisio, Sissoko and De Ceglie on the same midfield... take Camoranesi out of the game and we will be hoofing long balls on Iaquinta and Giovinco. Sounds like a frustrating evening to me.
if you watch close enough, you'd notice that marchisio does at least dare some really good/creative passes ... i admit they do not always succeed in finding their target, but you can not blame everything on someone who at least tries good/decisive passes...
there was a pretty obvious situation in the game against inter, that the most people do not expect marchisio to play good and attacking passes and thus the man who should receive it wont get it, because he does not expect the pass.
the situation i mean is, when marchisio got the ball and alex was approx. 15 metres away from him. there where two players between alex and marchisio so you would have to pass really exact to prevent the opponents to get to the ball but marchisio hat the courage and did the pass and none of the opponent that stood between alex and claudio got it ... this guy has sometimes has a really good passing speed which helps a lot up front ... but in that scenario alex was owned by his marker who just made to steps to be infront of alex and intercept the ball. would alex have been in better form and aware of the marker behind him he could have easily collected that ball, but again he looked like he did not expect claudio to have the courage to play such a pass...
damn how i love players that can play low passes with high speed ...