Lautaro Martínez
is, perhaps, the most lavish current world champion on the football planet.
He proves it every weekend.
El Toro is intractable.
And he showed it this Sunday, with his double in Inter Milan's trip to Lecce, on matchday 26 of Calcio Serie A.
Martínez opened the scoring for his team when the first quarter of an hour was up.
In this way he reached 100 shouts in Italian football.
ALWAYS YOU, TORO: Lautaro Martínez defined a cross and made it 1-0 for Inter against Lecce to reach 100 goals in the #SerieAxESPN.
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The man from Bahia, who makes history by walking,
became the eighth Argentine to overcome 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 mark after 196 appearances in Italy.
An average of 0.51 points per game.
Awesome.
He is also the ninth player in Inter's history to surpass 100 shouts.
In fact, he was already in the top 8 because a while later he scored 101 for the partial 3-0 and displaced
Cristian Vieri
on that list headed by the legendary Giuseppe Meazza (198) .
DOUBLE FROM THE BULL: Lautaro Martínez arrived alone in the area and scored Inter's 3-0 win against Lecce in the #SerieAxESPN.
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The other two goals for the team led by Simone Inzaghi - leader of Serie A with nine points ahead of Juventus - were the work of Italian midfielder Davide Fratesi and Dutch defender Stefan De Vrij.
After that task and once defying the history books, Lautaro Martínez left the field 19 minutes into the second half to make room for the Austrian Marko Arnautovic.