The numbers game caught up with Lazio as Hernanes scored twice against his former club in Inter's 2-1 win on Sunday.
Hernanes came back to haunt nine-man Lazio as his double spared Inter's blushes in an action-packed 2-1 Serie A victory on Sunday.
The Brazilian was playing against his former team at the Stadio Olimpico for the first time since his January 2014 move to San Siro, and he equalized Antonio Candreva's early opener with a 24th-minute free kick - for which Lazio center back Mauricio was sent off for a last-man challenge on Rodrigo Palacio.
The hosts battled superbly with 10 men, but their task was made even tougher when goalkeeper Federico Marchetti saw red for hauling down Mauro Icardi just after the hour.