Lautaro Martinez experiences a strange containment. Far from the hustle and bustle of stadiums, he can see his name appear regularly on the front pages of Spanish newspapers, which constantly relay FC Barcelona’s growing interest in him. Lautaro over here, Lautaro over there, why Lautaro would be a good partner for Messi … Praise is pouring out on Argentinian striker Inter Milan, who says he is flattered by such attention.
But the 22-year-old striker does belong to Inter Milan, who won’t sell it off after two years in Italy. Especially since his duet with Romelu Lukaku, recruited last summer at Manchester United, is marching. This is what highlights La Gazzetta dello Sport in its Friday edition. “Romelu Lukaku returns today and his first call will be for Lautaro”, provides daily life with pink pages. The Belgian striker wants to pick up where he left off with Lautaro and chain the successes.
A prolific duo
The two of them scored 39 of the 74 goals scored by Inter Milan in all competitions, more than half. They are already in the days of the best offensive doublets of the Lombard club. In Serie A, after 25 days (where the championship ended), only the Vieri-Recoba duo had done better in 2002-2003 (31 goals against 28 currently for Lukaku-Lautaro). The benchmark for a doublet is embodied by the duo Eto’o-Pazzini (the latter had been recruited in the winter transfer window at Sampdoria) with 48 goals between them in 2010-2011 including 37 for the Cameroonian.
With 28 goals in Serie A with 13 days to go for the Nerazzurri, the tandem Lukaku-Lautaro can also still hope to double the duo Icardi-Perisic who had scored 40 goals in Serie A between them in 2017-2018. Above all, Lukaku, happy at Inter, intends to play a role in convincing Lautaro to continue the adventure. The two men have become friends since the start of their collaboration and the Belgian international intends to weigh with all its weight to keep the Argentinian by his side beyond this season.
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