The Argentine is the league’s top scorer with 5 goals in 3 days and has overtaken Giroud. “I care about the bomber standings, but above all I want to win the Scudetto”. And on the ex-partner: “I no longer rejoice as I did with him”
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The Bull has also gored Fiorentina: 5 goals in the first 3 days of the championship and first place in the top scorer, complete with overtaking Milan player Giroud. A message in view of the derby on Saturday 16 September. It will be 13 very long days that the Inter fans and their cousins will be paired at the top of the standings, with full points. In the meantime, Inzaghi is pampering his Lautaro, crossing his fingers in the hope of having him back at the top after his commitments with Seleccion. The last Inter player to score 5 goals in the first 3 rounds of the championship was Icardi in 2017 and that year Maurito closed the season with 29 goals, in first place in the striker rankings on an equal footing with Ciro Immobile. Martinez is interested in being the king of the striker, but for him the Scudetto and the second star are the most important. He started this season with a “mission”: he has to lead the group, which his former friend Lukaku has … betrayed, to conquer the tricolor. The Belgian’s about-face is a deadly propellant for him, something that fuels his already great motivations even more. After the disappointment and tears of the Champions League final, he left with desire, but the farewell of his attacking partner, who in the days of his flirtation with Juve did not even answer his phone calls, gave him perhaps more anger than to the past. Not by chance when a Dazn they asked him twice for a comment on the fact that he stopped following Romelu on social media, Lautaro glossed over. Clear, right?
BEST LAUTARO
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Martinez feels that the moment is special and hasn’t hidden it: “Yes, you’ve been seeing the best Lautaro since I’ve been in Italy – he admitted – because I’m happy. My family is fine and that’s the main thing. I always try to give my best: sometimes I succeed and score, sometimes I don’t, but I’m happy to have reached the current level thanks to the work I do every day at Pinetina with the aim of growing. I’m happy with how I started the season”. Then the Bahia Blanca striker explained the differences compared to the past: “We’re trying to recover the ball higher than in the past to be immediately dangerous. Reattack is our main novelty and it’s no coincidence that the 1-0 was born Like this”. Thanks to the Fiorentina hat-trick he has risen to 107 goals with the Inter shirt and is in tenth place in the all-time rankings: overtaken Aebi (106). Vieri’s ninth place (123) and Icardi’s eighth (124) are already within his reach this season.
FORMER FRIENDS
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Then the conversation moved to the top scorer rankings and the relationship with ex-friend Lukaku. Lautaro made a few things clear: “I keep the scorer’s standings there (in the sense, it’s a goal, ed), but I mainly try to help my teammates, to make Inter grow. If the goal comes, it’s better, but the important thing is that the team wins. The derby? Milan have strengthened a lot, they have quality players and we know their value. Now let’s think about the national team, then there will be this derby which will be important and beautiful”. The highlight, however, came when the discussion shifted to Big Rom: “Did Thuram imitate my exultation with Lukaku? No, I don’t rejoice like that anymore”. As if to say, that is a closed chapter for me. And then, a few moments later: “Have I stopped following Lukaku on social media? Thuram, Arnautovic and Sanchez are great players, I’m happy for them. What if I ignore Lukaku? Yes (laughs, ed)”. Final on 2023-24 ambitions: “Last year we did a great job and reached the Champions League final. From day one in this new year we have transmitted the right mentality to the new ones: the big matches prepare themselves, but it is against the medium-small ones that we must not make mistakes as happened in the past. I am convinced that we can go far. Thuram? I’m glad he scored because he’s working well and he deserved it.”
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