After a World Cup in which he couldn’t score due to a damn ankle injury, Lautaro Martínez He returned to the courts strengthened. Yes, far from falling emotionally or football-wise, since then, the Toro raised on the Tita Mattiussi Estate has not stopped believing. Last season, he was Inter’s bannerman to take the Neroazzurro to the Champions League final against Pep and Julián Álvarez’s City. And this year it is even better: his play (on his team he is not a static 9 but moves throughout the attack front) and leadership (he is the captain of the team led by Inzaghi) recovered a fierce goal percentage. Lautaro has 23 goals in 24 Serie A dates and now the discussion is who is the best striker in the world that will emerge from the top leagues in Europe.
In Italy it is the Year of the Bull. Lautaro’s leadership seems to be undisputed: he shouted 23 times (only two from a penalty) and his immediate follower comes far behind. This is the Serbian from Juventus, Dusan Vlahovic, who scored 15 goals in Calcio and the Vecchia Signora board defines his performance as “exceptional.” So much so that they offered him a renewal until 2028 in exchange for 12 million euros. The Frenchman Giroud of Milan (15 goals) and Joya Dybala in Roma (with 12) go even further.
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In the discussion to be the European Top Scorer, the Bull competes none other than Harry Keane (he leads the list with 27 goals for Bayern Munich), Kylian Mbappé (21, PSG), the man of the Guinea National Team and the German Stuttgart, Serhou Guirassy (18), and the Manchester City animal, Erling Haaland (17).
Against those “babies” the Bahian runs. And the solution to the problem will come in June when one of them raises the Golden Boot received by the top scorer in the European Leagues.
It is worth clarifying that The Golden Boot will be obtained by the player who scores the most goals in the European leagues, beyond the national cups or the Champions League. To be graphic, the five goals that Erling Haaland scored against Luton Town do not enter this race because he scored them for the FA Cup.
Until now, only two Argentines have won the Golden Boot that has been awarded in Europe since 1967. Obviously, one of them was Lionel Messi who took the golden boot home six times (2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19). In case it needs to be clarified, he is the biggest winner.
The other name is much more distant: it is Chirola Yazalde.
It is worth making an asterisk in the history of the one who emerged from Independiente: on May 12, 1974 he scored his 46th goal for Sporting Lisbon; He was still 27 years old (his birthday was on May 29, 17 days later) and, without knowing it, he registered a mark that no one could break for 38 years. In the 2011/2012 season, Messi scored 50 goals and “stole” Chirola’s record.
Now, Lautaro wants to be the third Argentine to win the Golden Boot. His biggest obstacle seems to be Harry Kane. The Englishman, former Tottenham of Bayern Munich, has 27 goals and is ahead of him by 4. Of those, he scored three from a penalty, against the two from Toro who this Wednesday missed one against Atalanta. Of course, Mbappé appears very close there, with 21. Haaland’s 17 goals seem far away, but if he continues to score with the ferocity he did against Luton Town, he will be a rival to fear.
Beyond Messi’s astronomical numbers, with 12 matches to be played in Calcio, Lautaro is not that far from the last winner (in duplicate) of the award, which was Lewandowski with 35 (season 21-22) and 41 goals (in the 20 -twenty-one). Before, Ciro Immobile (19-20), from Lazio, took it with 36. And, if we continue going through the list, before the man from the Roman team, Messi beat him in triplicate in Barcelona with 36 goals (in the 18- 19), 34 (in 17-18) and 37 scores (16-17).
Lautaro continues making history at Inter
El Toro already has 128 goals for Inter in all competitions. He is already the Argentine who scored the most goals for the Neroazzurro. The Bahi native has just surpassed his compatriot Mauro Icardi and Christian Vieri and also the top scorer in history. His next goal is to get into the Top-6 and surpass the Hungarian Itsván Nyers with 133 shouts. The top scorer in Inter’s history is even less than Giuseppe Meazza with 284 goals, the man after whom the stadium is named.
Lautaro is going for everything: Serie A, Italian Cup, he will want to repeat Inter’s great performance in the Champions League and for his greatest individual prize: being the top scorer in the European leagues. Afterwards, he will move on to his other great goal of the year: bringing that flood of goals to the Argentine National Team in the next Copa América.