It is a fight at the last goal that awaits the main strikers of the Serie A to contribute to the assignment of the championship, to the other goals of the season and to the scorers classification. We are waiting to understand if the three months of stoppage will have affected the returns or if, from 12 June for the Italian Cup, then from 20 and 22 for the championship, we will witness the same trend. To take as an example the only elite tournament restarted, the Bundesliga, one would say no: Lewandowski, Werner and Haaland continue to be protagonists and above all the goals of the Pole, the beauty of 30 in 28 games, the European star, are dragging Bayern towards yet another league title.
In Italy, Ciro Immobile, Cristiano Ronaldo and Romelu Lukaku will return to the starting line to challenge each other in the Scudetto fight. In the twelve remaining rounds, Lazio and Juventus will also have the opportunity to meet directly at the Stadium on 20 July. So far Immobile dominates the top scorer: he has scored 27 goals, with the help of ten penalties, in what is the season of full maturity, launched towards Higuain's record of 36 goals that looked like science fiction. After a career with ups and downs, in four years of Lazio he scored 94 goals and he fights as an equal with the greatest striker, together with Leo Messi, of the last 20 years. Cristiano Ronaldo scored 21 goals, with seven penalties, and in all the competitions of his career (with the booty of five golden balls) he reached the sensational share of 725 goals, a ruthless goal scoring machine, as well as his skills technical and character, the rigorous self-discipline that at 35 years allows him to have a super run-in physique.
Instead, Lukaku will have to work harder, but he will have one more game to play, because Inter are detached and it will take a super challenge to overturn the predictions. Lukuku, strongly desired by Conte, has scored 17 goals in an honorable career of 262 goals. To drag Inter's hopes, he relies heavily on the help of Lautaro Martinez, pupil of Messi who would like him to Barca in a 100 million operation. Inter will thus have a substantial booty to strengthen as it has concluded the farewell operation of the former captain Icardi, redeemed by the PSG for 58 million.
The other highly anticipated forwards are those of Atalanta: the brigade of goals to which Ilicic's 15 goals, Muriel's 13, Zapata's 11, contribute towards fourth place and the quarterfinals of the Champions. Ilicic's excellent season is confirmed by the fact that, a hypothetical scorers' classification without penalties, sees him in second place at -2 from Immobile, better than Ronaldo's 14, Lukaku's and Joao Pedro's 13 and Dzeko and Caputo's 12 . They are the other strikers expected to return to the activity: together with Juventus from Dybala and Higuain, Lazio from Caicedo and Correa, the Grenade Belotti, Gervinho from Parma, Berardi from Sassuolo, Petagna from Spal (promised spouse to Naples), the Neapolitans Milik and Mertens (who is about to renew the contract), the Florentines Church, Vlahovic, the Milanese Rebic the Sampdorian Quagliarella so far in a minor tone after the title of the gunners won last year. Among the attackers expected to recover there are Ibrahimovic, Ribery and Zaniolo while the umpteenth flop of Mario Balotelli is set up, at loggerheads also with Brescia and for which the club has asked for the termination of the contract.
In short, the TV audience, the only possible one since it will be played behind closed doors, expects an avalanche of goals, even if in the first rounds of the Bundesliga fewer have been scored. Except for France which closed its doors with Mbappe 'and Ben Yadder's 18 goals, the other tournaments see a fluid situation. In Liga he leads the league with Leo Messi with 19 goals, 5 more than Benzema. In Premier it starts from 19 of Vardy which precedes 17 of Aubameyang and 16 of Salah and Aguero. Pending the final phase of the cups in August, the Serie A hopes to forget the anguish of the covid with a handful of magical nights of the ball.
