Lautaro Martinez Joins Serie A's 100 Club As Inter Milan Stay Nine Clear

Lautaro Martinez scored his 100th Serie A goal on Sunday as he netted twice in Inter Milan's 4-0 thumping of Lecce which kept their league lead over Juventus at nine points. Argentina striker Martinez joined the 100 club in Italy's top flight when he opened the scoring in the 15th minute in southern Italy. And 10 minutes after the break he slammed in the third for an Inter team which was almost unrecognisable from the one which beat Atletico Madrid on Tuesday but still capable of steamrollering their opposition.

"We're consistent, we play really good football... I'm really happy because we're doing great work and we need to keep going because it's not finished yet," said Martinez to DAZN.

"When I left home at 15 years old I never imagined that I would experience all this. It's down to hard work and the sacrifices my family made when I was a kid."

Davide Frattesi netted two minutes before Martinez's second and Stefan De Vrij rounded off the scoring against 14th-placed Lecce with a header from a 67th-minute corner.

Inter coach Simone Inzaghi made seven changes from his team's 1-0 Champions League win over Atletico but captain Martinez started and did the damage for Inter, as so often he does.

The 26-year-old has scored 22 goals in 23 league appearances in a sensational season for both him and his team as the Scudetto is starting to look like an inevitability.

Inter have won all 10 of their matches since the turn of the year and have kept 22 clean sheets this season.

They could be 12 points clear before next weekend's fixtures as they have their game in hand on Wednesday night, against Atalanta who held AC Milan to a 1-1 draw.

That fixture will be anything but a walk in the park as Atalanta have won five of their last six