Fabio Capello feels that Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martinez and Juventus’s Dusan Vlahovic have “woken up” this weekend after slow starts.
The legendary former AC Milan and Real Madrid coach hailed the two strikers’ respective braces and returns to form in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews.
Last season, Martinez and Vlahovic were the two highest scorers in Serie A.
Inter captain Martinez was well out in front, with 24 goals. Vlahovic, meanwhile, found the back of the net sixteen times.
It was little surprise to see Martinez and Vlahovic as two of Serie A’s top marksman.
Both of the pair have been prolific in recent seasons, and have seemed to improve in their goalscoring with each season in the Italian top flight.
And accordingly, Martinez and Vlahovic will have been two of the early favourites to be Serie A’s top scorer this time around.
Capello: “Lautaro Martinez & Dusan Vlahovic Have Woken Up”
In the first few matches of the campaign, though, Martinez and Vlahovic were below par.
In the case of Bianconeri striker Vlahovic, the Serb did bag a couple goals. But his overall performances have been poor, as he’s looked out of place in new coach Thiago Motta’s system.
Meanwhile, Martinez has suffered from a lack of pace and sharpness, which has seemed to be the result of a lack of a real preseason for the Argentine.
But this weekend, both Martinez and Vlahovic scored braces.
The former scored either side of halftime in a 3-2 win over Udinese. And the latter powered his team to a 3-0 victory against Genoa.
Former Milan coach Capello writes that “The league has once again found two great strikers.”
“There were few doubts that Vlahovic and Lautaro would ‘wake up,” he continues.
“But it’s important for Juve and Inter that they’ve gotten back to scoring on the eve of a week with the Champions League.”
“The fact that a player like Lautaro has broken his duck has a great weight,” Capello argues.
“Goalscorers can experience difficult moments. It’s happened to almost all the best strikers.”
“But when a player has a certain class it always comes out,” Capello writes. “And Lautaro does.”
