The future is certainly looking bright for Inter and Argentina striker Lautaro Martinez and the numbers prove that, Gazzetta dello Sport have highlighted.
For Argentina, the 21-year-old scored his first national team goal ahead of some of Argentina’s top attackers of the past few decades.
His first international goal came aged 21 years and two months, eight months quicker than both Gonzalo Higuain and Hernan Crespo and one year and three months fasted than Gabriel Batistuta. He also notched his first international goal before either Paulo Dybala and Mauro Icardi.
In league play for Inter, he has scored six goals and averages a goal every 175 minutes but if all competitions are taken into consideration, he scores once every 164 minutes instead.
Higuain aside, who had already played for Real Madrid when he arrived at Napoli, only Hernan Crespo managed a better average, albeit minimal of 173 minutes per goal in his debut season.
Lautaro has bettered the minutes per goal of fellow Argentines Icardi, Mauro Zarate, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Abel Balbo and Dybala in their debut seasons in Italy.
