Lautaro’s Inter overwhelms Italy: beats Retegui’s Genoa and takes 15 points from Juventus

There are still three months left until the end of the European season, but the A series He already seems to have defined his champion. And the fact is that Inter -with Lautaro Martínez owner and captain- defeated Genoa 2-1 Mateo Retegui and was 15 points ahead of Juventushis closest pursuer.

The Nerazzurri had the mission to extend after the Old Lady’s defeat against Napoli last Sunday. Objective achieved by narrowly beating a tough opponent, who had the chance to snatch a point from Giuseppe Meazza.

The local team takes the lead in the first half thanks to goals from the Albanian Kristjan Asllani and Chilean Alexis Sanchez -punishment-. Genoa reached the discount at the beginning of the complement thanks to Johan Vasquezwhich scored what would have been the final 2-1.

Lautaro Martínez, who played 75 minutes, was one of the banners of the victory: he assisted the first goal and caused the penalty that led to the second. However, he was left with the desire to shout one of his own. For his part, Retegui completed the 90 minutes of the visit.

With this result, Inter have reached 72 points in Serie A and are 15 points ahead of Juventus, who is 57 years old and is his only escort. Milan is further behind, with 56 units.

The Nerazzurri are experiencing their best moment of the season: With the one obtained this afternoon he reached 12 consecutive victories in all competitions. In the next match they will face Bologna, fourth and in the Champions League zone. After that, Simone Inzaghi’s men will face Atlético Madrid in the rematch of the Champions League round of 16.

Lautaro’s great season

Lautaro Martínez’s numbers this season are simply impressive. The world champion striker has 23 interventions under his belt in 25 matches played in the current Serie A. In this way, El Toro is the second top scorer in the five major European leagues and one of the great candidates to win the Golden Boot.

In a tremendous fight between top-level scorers, The only one who shouted more times than Lautaro is Harry Kane, scorer of 27 goals with Bayern Munich. The Englishman is followed by Martínez with 23, Kylian Mbappé (PSG) with 21, Serhou Guirassy (Stuttgart Guinean) with 18 and Erling Haaland (Manchester City) with 17.

It is the race towards the Golden Boot, a trophy that rewards the top scorer in the European championships (leaving aside what happens in the Champions League or, for example, Haaland’s five goals in the FA Cup), assigning a score based on relevance. of the same (England, Italy, Spain, Germany and France are the first).

Throughout history, only two Argentines have won this trophy. Hector Yazalde He achieved it in the 1970s with Sporting Lisbon and, several years later, Lionel Messi went on to break all records. Leo is the only player to have won it six times, all while playing for Barcelona (2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19).