Inter striker Edin Dzeko will be looking to break his goal drought against Juventus this evening in the Coppa Italia, and if he can manage this he’d be following in the footsteps of the other strikers in the last week.
This is the view in today’s print edition of Rome-based newspaper Corriere dello Sport, via FCInterNews, who suggest that Nerazzurri coach Simone Inzaghi will be hoping that Dzeko can follow the lead of Lautaro Martinez, Joaquin Correa, and Romelu Lukaku.
Inter’s two most recent matches against Benfica and Empoli have seen six goals scored in total, five of which came from the striker.
Martinez scored against Benfica to put an end to an eight-match sequence without a goal, in which he had even missed a penalty in a shock loss to Spezia.
These kinds of goal droughts are a concerning aspect of Martinez’s time at Inter, although the Argentine has shown a knack of emerging from them in some of his best scoring form, something which was confirmed by his goal off the bench against Empoli on Sunday.
Martinez wasn’t the only Argentine Inter striker to find the back of the net against Benfica, as Correa also scored a very well-taken goal for the Nerazzurri’s third on the night and fifth in the tie.
Then, Inter got the sense that when it rains it pours as Lukaku scored a brace against Empoli over the weekend.
Whilst the Belgian has scored some important penalties for Inter in recent weeks, his goals against the Tuscans were the first two that he’d scored from open play in the league since the very first day of the season against Lecce.
This just leaves Dzeko, whose goalless period stretches all the way back to the Supercoppa Italia against AC Milan on January 18.
Inzaghi will be hoping that the fact that all of the Bosnian former Roma and Manchester City man’s cohorts in attack have broken their ducks in the last week can be just the impetus needed for Dzeko to do so as well.