why Lautaro Martínez gave a penalty to a teammate against Torino

Inter de Milan celebrated this Sunday his Italian champion title, won last Monday, with a tight 2 to 0 win against Torinobefore starting the celebration of their 20th ‘Scudetto’ through the streets of the Lombard capital. Lautaro Martínezthe Argentine world champion and captain of the Neroazzurri, he had a noble gesture by giving the execution of the penalty that led to the second goal to the Romanian Hakan Calhanogluwhich stretched the maximum sentences converted consecutively to 16. El Toro has not scored a goal since February and is fighting for the championship’s scoring titlebut he respected his partner anyway.

It was the umpteenth example of leadership from the one born in Bahía Blanca when in the 60th minute the referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi -in a historic match with a complete female referee team in a men’s match- signaled the maximum penalty and the usual kicker Calhanoglu wanted to give the ball to Lautaro. With nothing at stake for Inter, the captain’s personal objectives took precedence over the collective ones, but it was at that moment when the world champion rejected it and urged his teammate to carry it out.

The Turk did not fail and celebrated with Lautaro, who with 23 goals and 2 assists aims to be the ‘capocannoniere’ of Serie A. His pursuer is the Serbian Dusan VlahovicJuventus forward, who has 16 goals and 4 assists on his account.

Lautaro will almost certainly be the top scorer, despite the fact that he has not celebrated since February 28.

For his part, Calhanoglu has not missed from eleven meters since 2020. He has 16 in a row and has surpassed Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s 15, equaling Giampaolo Pazzini’s record.

The Nerazzurri suffered during the first half against a Torino team that had the two best chances through the Colombian Duván Zapata (15 and 17).

But the expulsion of Adrien Tameza shortly after the break changed the trend of the match. The Cameroonian defender from Torino saw red for a challenge on Henrij Mkhitaryan when he was heading towards the goal, in an action that was reviewed in the VAR by the referee.

Thanks to its 28th victory in 34 games, with only one defeat, Inter increased its advantage over its two main rivals, Milan (2nd) and Juventus (3rd), who tied without goals on Saturday.

The Milan team is 19 points behind its great rival, while Juventus is 24 points behind.

Until the end of the season, on May 26, the players led by Simone Inzaghi can break several Serie A records, including the largest difference between first and second (22 points between Inter and Roma in the 2006 season). 07).

Starting at 4:00 p.m. local time (11:00 a.m. Argentine time) the new champions of Italy got into a convertible bus to parade through the streets of Milan to the ‘Duomo’, the capital of the Lombard cathedral where they were awaited by thousands of ‘Tifosi’ .