He was one of the few missing to receive recognition from his club’s fans, but this Wednesday the Bahian Lautaro Martínez had a day full of smiles because besides being acclaimed as world champion in the middle of the playing field of the Giuseppe Meazza stadium he participated in the Inter 1-0 on leaders Napleswho was last undefeated in all of Europe’s top leagues.
After the warm-up, and before returning to the changing rooms, the ‘Toro’ remained in midfield, the young president of Inter, the Chinese Stephen Zhangand presented him with a plaque in the club colors and an image of him lifting the World Cup in Qatar in the Argentina national team shirt. All the fans chanted his first and last name.
Later, the Bahian, like Joaquín Correa who missed out on the World Cup at the last minute with injury, watched from the bench as Bosnian Edin Dzeko nailed an en route header to make it 1-0 it would end up being final.
The two Argentinian forwards came on in the last 30 minutes of the game and were important to keep possession and keep the clock going at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium.
Inter thus reaches 33 points, eight less than Napoli -who came on for Giovanni Simeone in the last five minutes-, who also remain the sole leader of the tournament, despite all their pursuers having managed to cut the lead.
It is that Milan (36), Juventus (34) and, further back, Roma (30) have won first.
Also, at the end of Wednesday, when Serie A resumed, there was a goal from the Argentine for udinese (also with Nehuén Pérez) why Robert Pereyra he made it 1-1 against Empoli.
Source: Clarin
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