Lautaro Martínez enters history walking: another centenary of Inter as masters of the Italian Serie A

Lautaro Martinez He is perhaps the most luxurious current world champion on the football planet. He proves it every weekend. El Toro is intractable. And he proved it this Sunday, with the brace in Inter’s away match against Lecce, the 26th matchday of Serie A football.

Martínez opened the scoring for his team at the end of the first quarter of an hour. He thus reached 100 shouts in Italian football. The Bahian, who makes history by walking, He became the eighth Argentine to break that barrier. He was behind Gabriel Batistuta (184), Hernán Crespo (153), Omar Sívori (147), Gonzalo Higuaín (125), Mauro Icardi (121), Paulo Dybala (118) and Abel Balbo (117).

Lautaro reached that milestone after 196 appearances in Italy. An average of 0.51 points per game. Exceptional. He is also the ninth player in Inter’s history to exceed 100 shouts. In fact he was already in the top 8 because shortly after he scored 101 for the 3-0 partial and ousted in that list headed by the legendary Giuseppe Meazza (198) Cristian Vieri.

The other two goals from the team led by Simone Inzaghi – leaders of Serie A with a nine-point lead over Juventus – were the work of Italian midfielder Davide Fratesi and Dutch defender Stefan De Vrij.

After that feat and defying the history books, Lautaro Martínez left the field in the 19th minute of the second half to make room for Austrian Marko Arnautovic.