Lautaro is the extra weapon for Inter in the final against Manchester City – Corriere.it

The first testimonies of the cult of the Bull, in the form of rock paintings, date back to 7000 BC and have been found in present-day Turkey,

where Inter will play the sixth final in its history,
the second of the modern era of football after the happy one by Jos Mourinho, with goals from Diego Milito and the leadership of captain Zanetti. Thirteen years later Lautaro Martinez does it all in the second leg – the liberating goal, with the armband – and once again becomes the symbol of this team on which few would have bet a euro in August for the Champions League final and instead will play it on 10 June in Istanbul against Manchester City.

Beyond the thanks, the emotion and the extraordinary empathy with the Nerazzurri people, Toro immediately hit the point at the end of the game: We have to give everything to get as high as possible. Because the final is a finish line, there’s no doubt about it, but now it’s a starting point for making a perhaps crazy dream come true, but for which it is right to leave no stone unturned, to have no regrets. Lautaro knows how to do it, the only Inter fan to have frequented certain altitudes: in six months he will go from the World Cup final to the Champions League final
(with the interlude of a delicious goal against Milan in the Supercoppa in January), after becoming an even more credible and ferocious leader, one of those who traces the furrow and who seems to have a shirt tattooed on his skin, a single body with the team, the fans and also the city, given that the Argentine got married in great secrecy in the Municipality of Milan with Agustina Gandolfo on May 12, between one cup derby and another.

His marriage to Inter is a story of great passion and his 25 goals this season (with 10 assists) have already brought the tally to 99: quota 100 around the corner, but the important thing is that Toro continues to charge with his head down on every ball and that he maintains this state of form in the next three weeks leading up to Istanbul: because if his commitment has always been an example and perhaps even cost him the starting position in the World Cup in favor of Julian Alvarez, it is also true that Lautaro alternates periods of binges in front of goal with not even so short fasts. The fact to be able to alternate during the same game, two backs such as Dzeko and Lukaku he’s making the difference this season finale, as the Belgian also reached peak form better late than never following an injury-plagued year, as never before in his career.

Speaking of muscle pains, today Inter will know if in view of Istanbul they can count on Mkhitaryan, another of the columns of this Nerazzurri building planted in the Bosphorus: what is certain is that everything will be done to recover the Armenian. The architect Inzaghi, after receiving harsh criticism not only from the outside, collects the trust of President Zhang: in two weeks from a sure departure the coach guaranteed confirmation, with a wider horizon, given that the Marotta rule provides not to start the season with an expiring coach. It will still be Inzaghi’s Inter: under the sign of Taurus.